Aspen Grove sits in pine and fir at about 6,900 feet, at the foot of Mount Timpanogos on the Provo Canyon side of the Alpine Loop. It is the trailhead for two very different outings: the long, punishing climb to the 11,752-foot summit of Timpanogos — around fourteen miles round trip and more than five thousand feet of gain — and the short, family-friendly walk to Stewart Falls, a tall horsetail cascade reached in under two miles.
Behind the parking area stands the Theater in the Pines, a rustic stone amphitheater built into the forest, and the whole basin lights up in late July with one of the better wildflower displays in the Wasatch. Like the rest of the loop, it is a summer-and-fall place — the road in is gated through the winter.
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