Samak, UT

Samak is a census-designated place in southwestern Summit County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census counted 93 residents. The name is simply the reversal of the name of the nearby city of Kamas. The Beaver Divide SNOTEL weather station is located along the lower section of Bald Mountain Pass, roughly 5 miles east of Samak. The Mirror Lake Highway, a scenic byway that connects Kamas, Utah with Evanston, Wyoming, winds through the heart of Samak. Every summer in mid-June, the highway is used as a route for the mountain stage of the annual High Uintas Classic, a two-day bicycle race that takes participants from Kamas to Evanston. The short version is that Samak carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Samak: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Samak includes the Mirror Lake.