Elevation 11,035 ft (3,363 m) | Length 28 mi (45 km) N-S Mountains Deseret Peak | |
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Borders on Skull Valley-W(Cedar Mountains-W)Great Salt Lake-NStansbury Island-NNETooele Valley-ERush Valley-SEOnaqui Mountains-SGreat Salt Lake Desert-WSW Similar Deseret Peak, Oquirrh Mountains, Deep Creek Mountains, Silver Island Range, Rush Lake | ||
The Stansbury Mountains are a 28-mile (45 km) long mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah. The north end of the range borders the southwest of the Great Salt Lake at Stansbury Bay.
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Map of Stansbury Mountains, Utah 84022, USA
The range trends north-south, and lies in the region of the southeast Great Salt Lake Desert. Dugway (and the Dugway Proving Ground) is adjacent southwest at the desert's perimeter; Skull Valley trends north from Dugway, and is the west border of the Stansbury Mountains.
The south of the range contains the Deseret Peak Wilderness, with much of the range as part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
DescriptionEdit
The range trends north-south, and is connected with a similar trending range at the south, the Onaqui Mountains. The range is widest at the south, about 10-mi, and narrows to about 6-mi at the Great Salt Lake.
The highpoint of the range is Deseret Peak, 11,035 feet (3,363 m), in the Deseret Peak Wilderness. The range is mostly a massif, with a continuous ridgeline from north-to-south; the last 3-mi north narrows to Long Rock Basin at Timpie. Timpie Springs Waterfowl Management Area at the lakeshore, borders Timpie, and the range's foothill.
Skull Valley borders the range's west, with the Skull Valley Indian Reservation at the southwest foothills, and north of Dugway. Tooele Valley borders the range's east, with the communities of Burmester, Grantsville, and Rush Valley.
AccessEdit
Utah State Route 196 traverses the Skull Valley from Dugway south, to Iosepa, valley center, then to Timpie. Only unimproved roads access the west side of the range.
The east side of the range contains numerous communities, and the Tooele Army Depot at multiple sites. Utah Route 138 traverses the range's northeast to Grantsville from I-80. Interstate 80 lies at the north end of the range at Timpie, connecting Delle west to Burmester east.