Country United States County Tooele Abandoned 1955 Elevation 1,402 m | State Utah Established 1880 GNIS feature ID 1437626 Local time Monday 10:39 PM | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind S at 6 km/h, 43% Humidity | ||
Low is a ghost town in northern Tooele County, Utah, United States.
Map of Low, Utah 84029, USA
Low was established in 1880 as a construction and maintenance camp on a siding of the Western Pacific Railroad.
The name "Low" may have derived from its location on a low pass between the Cedar Mountains to the south, and the Grassy Mountains to the north.
Local water was unavailable so the camp was abandoned in 1955. A scattering of ruins remain.
The Low Flight Strip is an abandoned military airfield located approximately 13 miles (21 km) west of Low.
Interstate 80 runs west of low, and Exit 60 is known as "Low Interchange".
The "Low Transportation Corridor" or "Low Rail Corridor" both refer to a proposed rail line to carry spent nuclear fuel from the Union Pacific mainline at the junction of Interstate 80 near the Low Interchange, to the Skull Valley Indian Reservation, across 1,593 acres (645 ha) of Bureau of Land Management land within the Skull Valley.