Tabernacle Hill

Tabernacle Hill is a volcanic butte in west-central Utah’s Sevier Desert, part of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field. Formed of late Pleistocene basalt and tuff, it rises within a ring of hills near a broad lava field and preserves evidence of eruptions that entered Lake Bonneville when the ancient lake stood at the Provo level. This ties the butte to both volcanic activity and one of the Great Basin’s defining prehistoric lakes. South of The Cinders, identified as Utah’s youngest lava flow, Tabernacle Hill stands within a notable volcanic landscape first mapped in 1890 by Grove Karl Gilbert and Israel Russell.

Utah · United States