Great White Icicle Area
Great White Icicle Area in Utah has 23 climbing routes across 15 grades, offering mixed, sport, and trad styles.
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- 23 routes
- 5.5 – 5.12a
- Trad · Sport · Mixed
Is Great White Icicle Area open right now?
No closures listed
The Forest Service lists no closures for Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
As of · Source: USFS · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Agencies don't list every closure — check before you go.
Best time to visit Great White Icicle Area
Best months: April–June and September–October. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.
Jan
34° / 22°
Feb
40° / 24°
Mar
49° / 31°
Apr
56° / 35°
May
66° / 44°
Jun
78° / 52°
Jul
88° / 60°
Aug
86° / 58°
Sep
76° / 50°
Oct
60° / 39°
Nov
44° / 30°
Dec
33° / 22°
Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Timpanogos Cave, UT, 8.8 mi away at 5,740 ft. The station sits about 600 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
The Great White Icicle Area is a climbing area in the Salt Lake Ranger District of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah, managed by the Forest Service. It sits among several other climbing spots, with Hidden Forest about 0.1 mile away and the Pentapitch Area about 0.2 mile away. For comfortable weather, late spring and early fall are the sweet spots. Typical averages from a nearby weather station at Timpanogos Cave show May highs around 66°F and September highs around 76°F, while July climbs to about 88°F. The Little Cottonwood Creek Trail and Upper Lisa Falls Trail are both within a mile, and Tanners Flat Campground is about 2.2 miles away. Lake Lillian, roughly 3.3 miles off, offers fishing.
Routes (23)
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