Western Utah is a region of Utah encompassing the counties of Box Elder and Tooele, as well as the western halves of the counties of Juab, Millard, and Beaver (west of longitude 113W).

Regions

Cities

  • Brigham City — a small Mormon city (by Utah standards) near Promontory Peak and home to the Brigham City Tabernacle
  • Grantsville — a large town near Deseret Peak and Miller Motorsports Park
  • Milford (Utah) — a very small town in western Beaver County, just east of the particularly atmospheric ghost town of Frisco
  • Tooele — a small copper mining city by the Tooele Army Depot (the training base of the Enola Gay crew); also home to about $5 million in the Prison Break universe
  • Wendover — on Utah's western border, this is the eastern half of Nevada's West Wendover, which is essentially the same city, but serves as a gambling retreat for Utahns

Other destinations

  • Deseret Wilderness Area — high peaks, often snow capped, surrounded by barren desert; popular with backpackers

Culture and History

Western Utah is covered with gigantic expanses of flat desert, punctuated by sudden, forested mountains. Its larger towns are all located in the extreme east of the region, near the more populated regions of Wasatch Front and Central Utah. Much of the region is off limits to the curious and the adventurous, as it is home to the Dugway Proving Grounds, an enormous military area which has been the object of not a few conspiracy/UFO theories. Travelers who do make it out to the far western desert will be rewarded mostly with solitude, but also some extreme (and potentially dangerous) desert wilderness backpacking opportunities. A tamer outdoors experience can be had at the region's most popular attraction, the Deseret Wilderness Area.

Talk

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Tours and Getting around Western Utah

The two "main" desert roads heading into the remote west are US-6 from Delta and US-29 from Milford. They mostly just serve to take you further into nowhere, but you will be rewarded with some impressive, if monotonous, desert vistas. US-6, if you follow it far enough, will eventually get you to Great Basin National Park in Nevada.

Western Utah tourist attractions and sightseeing

Itineraries

Western Utah city tours

Western Utah Restaurants: cheap, moderate and expensive

Western Utah nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs

Stay safe

Do not head far out into the desert without reserve water and gasoline. Expect to need a gallon of water per day per person in the event that an emergency situation develops.

Get out

This page was last edited by Wikitravel user PerryPlanet. Based on work by Peter Fitzgerald. - Content on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 license

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