Stansbury Mountains

Stansbury Mountains
Stansbury Mountains
	View south-southeast, from Timpie area
Highest point
Peak	Deseret Peak
Elevation	11,035 ft (3,363 m)
Coordinates	40°27′34.25″N 112°37′34.76″W / 40.4595139°N 112.6263222°W
Dimensions
Length	28 mi (45 km) N-S
Geography
	Stansbury Mountains Stansbury Mountains; in Utah
Country	United States
State	Utah
Regions	Great Basin Desert and Great Salt Lake Desert
County	Tooele
Communities	Timpie, Flux, Burmester, Grantsville, Iosepa, Rush Valley, Saint John, Clover and Terra
Range coordinates	40°31′02″N 112°38′01″W / 40.5171636°N 112.6335728°W
Borders on	Skull Valley, Cedar Mountains, Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Island, Tooele Valley, Rush Valley, Onaqui Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert

The Stansbury Mountains are a 28-mile (45 km) long^[1] mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah.^[2] It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury, 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 Great Salt Lake Desert. Its southwest perimeter is adjacent to Dugway (and the Dugway Proving Ground), 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 massif, with a continuous ridgeline from north to south, and they are connected at their south with the similarly aligned Onaqui Mountains. The range is widest at the south, about 10 miles, and narrows to about 6 miles ^[3] 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, 11,035 feet (3,363 m), in the Deseret Peak Wilderness.

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.

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 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.