Low is a

ghost town Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' ...

in northern

Tooele County Tooele County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,218. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Tooele County ...

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, United States. Low was established in 1880 as a construction and maintenance camp on a siding of the

Western Pacific Railroad The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was formed in 1903 as an attempt to break the near-monopoly the Southern Pacific Railroad had on rail service into northern California. WP's Feather River Route dire ...

. Its name may have derived from its location on a low pass between the

Cedar Mountains Cedar Mountains may refer to: * Cedar Mountains (Nevada) * Cedar Mountains (Iron County), a List of mountain ranges of Utah, mountain range of Utah * Cedar Mountains (Tooele County, Utah) ** Cedar Mountain Wilderness See also

* Cedar Mountain R ...

to the south, and the

Grassy Mountains Grassy (meaning 'covered with grass' or 'resembling grass') may refer to: Populated places *Grassy, Lauderdale County, Alabama, an unincorporated community *Grassy, Marshall County, Alabama, an unincorporated community *Grassy, Missouri, unincor ...

to the north. Local water was unavailable so the camp was abandoned in 1955. A scattering of ruins remain. The

Low Flight Strip Low Flight Strip is an abandoned military airfield located approximately west of the ghost town of Low, Utah. History This was one of the many Flight Strips which were built by the USAAF during World War II for the emergency use of military airc ...

is an abandoned military airfield located approximately west of Low.

Interstate 80 Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area. The highway was designated in 1956 as one o ...

runs west of Low, and Exit 62 is known as the "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 The Skull Valley Indian Reservation (Gosiute dialect: Wepayuttax) is located in Tooele County, Utah, United States, approximately southwest of Salt Lake City. It is inhabited by the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians of Utah, a federally recog ...

, across of

Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's la ...

land within the Skull Valley.

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