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Kamas is a city in southwestern Summit County, Utah, about 42 miles east of downtown Salt Lake City.

It had a population of 2,092 in the 2020 census, living in 713 households.

The city was settled in 1859 and takes its name from Camassia quamash, a flowering plant that grew in the region and was a food source for Native Americans.

Its main industries are cattle ranching and lumber, and it is known as 'The Gateway to the Uinta Mountains.'

Kamas is part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area and lies in the South Summit School District, which has a high school, a middle school, and an elementary school in the city.

Local legend tells of Thomas Rhoads and a lost gold mine revealed to him by Ute guides, and the Rhoads family is recorded as having supplied substantial amounts of gold to the LDS Church for the Salt Lake Temple.

Kamas is the starting point for the High Uintas Classic, a two-day summer bicycle race that crosses Bald Mountain Pass on the Mirror Lake Highway into Evanston, Wyoming.

The city hosts Fiesta Days, a community celebration on and around July 24, Utah's Pioneer Day holiday, with rodeos, a demolition derby, a parade, and the Miss Fiesta Days pageant.

Kamas has a warm-summer humid continental climate, with a record high of 101 degrees Fahrenheit on July 13, 2002, and a record low of minus 31 degrees on December 21, 1990.

The city's ZIP code is 84036.