Mineral Fork Climbing

Mineral Fork is a less travelled canyon in Big Cottonwood Canyon and is located just up the road from the Mill B South Fork canyon (aka Lake Blanche Fork), and downhill from Cardiff Fork.

An old mining road travels near the mouth of the canyon for four, sometimes wet, switchbacks then up the length of the canyon, past the Wasatch Mine then up a zillion switchbacks to the Regulator Johnson Mine. The Wasatch Mine is three miles up canyon, Regulator Johnson 4.5 miles.

The canyon sees mostly hiking and ATV/dirt bike traffic in the summer, and, is the haunt of ski touring and snowshoeing folks in the winter. In the winter and spring, the avalanche hazard should be accessed as the canyon is known for avalanche fatalities.

Kessler Peak to the east, and the ridgeline above Lake Blanche bound the canyon.