Dugway Range

The Dugway Range is a 13-mile (21 km) longUtah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 23, 31. 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 mountain range pediments. It is the location of the Bonneville Salt Flats.

The long Granite Mountain lies Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 23. north of the range; the mountain is a traveler's landmark with landscape sketches made in the 1800s (1859).

Description

The Dugway Range is about long, with a spur on the south terminus. The spur extends southwest into the Great Salt Lake Desert. The spur, Dugway Ridge, is about long, south-southwest trending mostly, and ends at Pyramid Peak, .

The highpoint of the range is Castle Mountain (Utah), ), near the range's center, in the main ridgeline region.

Satellite landforms to the range

With the elevation of the Great Salt Lake about (, in 2006), and Bonneville Salt Flats, at , the surrounding salt flats around the mountain range, are about . Between the Fish Lakes to the southwest, actual foothills above the Great Salt Lake Desert saltflats exist. Washes converge off the southwest flank; they flow southwest, then converge in a shallow valley, with three washes flowing northwest to the GSLD saltflat. Adjacent southwest is a circular, Black Rock Hills, , ( prominence, diameter), east of the Fish Lakes, and about due southwest of the Dugway foothills.

Northeast of the Dugway Range, and east of Granite Mountain are the GSLD salt flats. They extend halfway southeast, along the range's northeast flank, to meet the outflow terminus at the northwest of Dugway Valley, which itself trends mostly southeast, about . The valley contains Table Mountain Reservoir ( diameter), located due-west of Table Mountain, . Dissected hills and flats border the valley's northeast; also, with the same northwest trendline as the Dugways, the Old River Bed courses along, about , a circuitous wash-bed, containing Old River Bed Road.

South of the range at Pony Express Road, is Dugway Pass. The Dugway foothills from here merge south and south-southeast into the northern foothills of the Thomas Range.

Adjacent at the south terminus of Granite Mountain, is a small rock "island", Sapphire Mountain, , long ( prominence). Sapphire Mountain is from the Dugway foothills, and from the Granite Mountain perimeter.

Access

By way of unimproved roads, the Dugway Range can be accessed from the west, the region of the Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge at the north of the Fish Springs Range; the routes are accessed from Callao, west, and about from the Dugways. The route from Fish Springs is called Pony Express Road, and transits around the southern range terminus and the Pyramid Peak spur.

From Pony Express Road, an unimproved road encircles the mountain range, northwest, north, and east; the route is about long.

The range can also be accessed from the east, northeast, from Dugway, (by Utah State Route 199 and Utah 196), on unimproved roads. Dugway is located about northeast of the Dugway Range.

Off-road routes can reach Granite Mountain (Tooele County, Utah) from the range's north terminus; Granite Peak "island" is distant across the salt flat desert. Other routes from the east, the Dugway region, also access Granite Mountain's east region.

File:Crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert From Simpson's Spring to Short Cut Pass, Granite Mountain in the distance. - NARA - 305637.jpg, A traveling landmark: Granite Mountain (Tooele County, Utah), an 1859 art sketch

References

{{Reflist

External links

Castle Mountain (Utah) (approx. range center) (coordinates)Dugway Pass, and Dugway Ridge region (and Thomas Range), map, (topoquest)Dugway Range, (northwest), (topoquest)

Great Salt Lake Desert
Mountain ranges of Tooele County, Utah
Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Utah