SOUTH VALLEY Salt Lake County UTAH City Lines Map: PRINTSOUTH VALLEY, Salt Lake Valley, Point of the Mountain, UTAH. The southern end of the Salt Lake Valley is booming, hemmed in from the south by the Traverse Mountains. The Oquirrh Mountains and former quarry and mines provide the backdrop to the west, the Wasatch Front to the west and three temple spires rise from the east, west and center. Draper, Riverton, Bluffdale, South and West Jordan, Sandy, Daybreak and a few other communities populate this