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Visitors at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The thickness of salt crust is a critical factor in racing use of the salt flats. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has undertaken multiple studies on the topic; while a 2007 study determined that there was little change in the crust's thickness from 1988 to 2003, [8] more recent studies have shown a reduction in thickness, especially in the northwest ...
Bonneville Speedway (also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track) is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats northeast of Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motor sports. It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. The Bonneville Salt Flats Race Track is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
The freeway enters Utah from Nevada in the city of Wendover on the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats. The cities of West Wendover, Nevada, and Wendover are accessible by I-80's only business loop in Utah, [6] whose interchange is just south of Danger Cave.
The name "Salduro" is a combination of Spanish words sal and duro and means "hard salt". [3] The settlement was located on the geologically significant Salduro Salt Marsh, also known as the Bonneville Salt Flats. [4] Bonneville Speedway is located approximately 1 mi (1.6 km) north of Salduro. [5]
The Wendover Cut-off, also called the Wendover Road or Wendover Route, is a two-lane highway in the western part of Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah.Stretching 40.3 miles (64.9 km) from Wendover to Knolls across the Bonneville Salt Flats, a part of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the cut-off was once part of the primary link between the Nevada state line and Salt Lake City.
The Dugway Range is a 13-mile (21 km) long [1] mountain range located in central-south Tooele County, Utah, on the Juab County north border.. The Dugway Range extends northwesterly into the south of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the region at the west and southwest of the Great Salt Lake, about three times its area, a region of a flat white, salt flat, flat alluvial plains, and some alluvial ...
Pilot Valley Playa, Great Salt Lake Desert and Bonneville Salt Flats The Silver Island Range , also called the Silver Island Mountains , is a mountain range in Utah , United States , situated the northwest corner of Tooele County and the southwest corner of Box Elder County , about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Wendover .
Interstate 80 enters from Wendover and crosses the Bonneville Salt Flats before entering the Salt Lake Valley, briefly becoming concurrent with I-15 before leaving the valley through Parley's Canyon, meeting the end of I-84 and enters Wyoming. [7] [8] I-80N — — I-80N at the Idaho state line towards Burley: I-80 near Echo: 1958: 1977