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Hillside Letters

Mountain monograms, hillside letters, letters on the mountain, whatever you call them they’re pretty common in the west. They started in 1905 with C for California Berkeley and U for University of Utah, then the Y for BYU in 1906 and it quickly spread to many, many Universities and High Schools adding letters above their city or town.

Growing up in Utah the hillside letters were very common, I decided to start another list here for the letters I come across.

— A’s —

• A – Alton

— B’s —

• B – Beaver
• B – Bingham High (Bingham Canyon)
• B – Bountiful
• B – Brigham City
• B – Brighton High (Cottonwood Heights)
• B – South Jordan
• BL – Ben Lomond High (Ogden)
• BR – Bear River High School (Garland)
• BV – Bryce Valley High (Tropic)

— C’s —

• C – Carbon High School (Price)
• C – Cedar City
• C – Cyprus High School (Magna)
• C – East Carbon
• CV – Cedar Valley (Cedar City)

— D’s —

• D – (Dixie – St George)
• D – Duchesne

— E’s —

• E – Elsinore
• E – Enterprise
• E – Escalante
• EC – East Carbon

— F’s —

• FG – Fountain Green

— G’s —

• G – Glenwood
• G – Green River
• G – Gunnison
• G – Moab
• G – Pleasant Grove

— Hs —

• H – Henefer
• H – Highland High School (Salt Lake City)
• H – Hurricane

— I’s —

• I – Independence HS (Provo)
• I – Intermountain Indian School (Brigham City)

— J’s —

• J – (Juab) Nephi

— K’s —

• K – Kanab
• K – Kingston

— L’s —

• L – Lapoint
• L – La Verkin
• L – Leeds

— M’s —

• M – Mammoth
• M – Manila
• M – Manti
• M – Marysvale
• M – Millard HS (Fillmore)
• M – Morgan
• M – Moroni
• M – Mountain Home
• MC – Mountain Crest HS (Hyrum)

— N’s —

• NC – North Cache Jr. HS (Richmond)
• NR – North Rich Jr. HS (Laketown)
• NS – North Sevier HS (Salina)
• NS – North Summit HS (Coalville)

— P’s —

• P – (Parowan)
• P – Payson
• P – Peterson
• P – Piute HS (Junction)
• PC – Park City

— R’s —

• R – Richfield
• R – Roosevelt

— S’s —

• S – Shivwits
• S – Skyline HS (Holladay)
• S – Snow College (Ephraim)
• S – Sterling
• SJ – San Juan HS (Blanding)
• SS – South Sevier (Monroe)
• SS – South Summit (Kamas)
• SV – Sky View HS (Smithfield)

— S’s —

• T – Tintic HS (Eureka)
• T – Tooele
• T – Tropic

— U’s —

• U – Uintah
• U – Uintah HS (Vernal)
• U – (University of Utah)

— V’s —

• V – Valley HS (Orderville)
• V – Venice
• V – Viewmont HS (Centerville)

— W’s —

• W – Wendover
• W – Whitehorse HS (Montezuma Creek)

— Y’s —

• Y – BYU

Aside from just letters, sometimes it is words:

• CALICO (Calico Ghost Town, California)
• DIXIE (St George, Utah)
• GREEN VALLEY (St George, Utah)
• FREMONT COUNTRY (Beaver area, Utah)
• HOLE N’ THE ROCK (Moab area, Utah)
• TRIDELL (Tridell)

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