Mount Nebo is the mountain the whole drive is named for — at 11,928 feet, the highest peak in the Wasatch Range and its dramatic southern full stop, where the range that runs all the way down from Idaho finally gives out. It is a long, triple-summited massif, and from the Nebo Loop you see it from behind, its east face rising in tiers of rock and forest above the road.
The peak itself is wilderness — the Mount Nebo Wilderness — and reaching the top is a serious, all-day climb from trailheads like Nebo Bench, with thousands of feet of gain and no water near the summit. Most people, sensibly, take it in from the overlooks instead. Either way it anchors the southern end of the range and the town of Nephi at its foot. Partway up the loop, a short trail reaches Devil's Kitchen, a pocket of red hoodoos eroded into the forest that locals call Utah's "little Bryce."
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