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Sundial Peak  is 28 miles south-east of Garfield Smelter and 6,017 feet higher. Located in the 10,000 foot slice of Utah, Sundial Peak is positioned in the mighty Wasatch Mountains on the eastern edge of Salt Lake County.

There are at least three destinations in Utah that go by the name Sundial. The lowest Sundial Park in Davis County is located at 4,265 feet, followed by The Sundial, a 7,590 foot peak just north of  The West Temple in Zion National Park, and finally the tallest of the Sundials, Sundial Peak which stands at an impressive 10,360 feet above sea level.

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The Empire State Building is tall, really tall; and so it might surprise you to find out that Utah has a man-made structure that is almost equal in height to the Empire State Building – The Garfield Smelter.

The Garfield Smelter is a prominent landmark located in the north-west corner of Salt Lake County. The smelter’s smokestack is 1215 feet tall and is the tallest manmade structure in Utah. It is almost three times as tall as the Church Office Building which is the tallest building in Utah and is only 35 feet shorter than the Empire State Building.  In fact the Garfield stack is the tallest smokestack in America west of the Mississippi. Built in 1974 it cost 16.3 million dollars to build. Click here for more info on the smokestack.

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