The Stansbury Mountains are a long

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located in eastern Tooele County,

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. It is named for

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Major

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, a topographical engineer, who led an expedition that surveyed the region. The range trends north–south, reaching from the southwest of the Great Salt Lake at Stansbury Bay into the region of the southeast

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. Its southwest perimeter is adjacent to Dugway (and the

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), and along its western base lies Skull Valley, which trends north from Dugway. The south of the range contains the Deseret Peak Wilderness, with much of the range as part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

Description

The Stansbury Mountains are mostly a

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, with a continuous ridgeline from north to south, and they are connected at their south with the similarly aligned

Onaqui Mountains The Onaqui Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern Tooele County, Utah United States. Description The range is part of a continuous range with the Stansbury Mountains and Sheeprock Mountains. The highest point is Stookey Benchmark, which ...

. The range is widest at the south, about 10 miles, and narrows to about 6 miles DeLorme Atlas, p. 16-17. at the Great Salt Lake. Its northernmost 3 miles narrow at Timpie to Long Rock Basin. At the lakeshore, bordering Timpie and the mountains' foothills, lies Timpie Springs Waterfowl Management Area. The highpoint of the range is Deseret Peak, , in the Deseret Peak Wilderness. Skull Valley borders the range's west, with 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 reco ...

at the southwest foothills, and north of Dugway. Tooele Valley borders the range's east, with the communities of Burmester, Grantsville, and

Rush Valley Rush Valley is a long north-trending valley in the southeast of Tooele County, Utah. It lies adjacent to and attached to the south of Tooele Valley; the separation point is the low point of the valley at Rush Lake, and lies at the southeast o ...

Access

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

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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

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west to Burmester east.

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Davenport Canyon (approx. range center-N to S) (coordinates)
Great Salt Lake Desert Mountain ranges of Tooele County, Utah Mountain ranges of the Great Basin Mountain ranges of Utah Wasatch-Cache National Forest {{Utah-geo-stub

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