Dugway Range
| Dugway Range | |
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Dugway Range-(horizon, photo left, ~16 mi)
view (north-northwest) of Topaz Mtn, (Thomas Range, north Sevier Desert) |
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Castle Mountain (Utah) |
| Elevation | 6,748 ft (2,057 m) |
| Coordinates | 39°57′05″N 113°08′28″W / 39.95139°N 113.14111°WCoordinates: 39°57′05″N 113°08′28″W / 39.95139°N 113.14111°W |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 13 mi (21 km) NW x SE (Dugway Ridge, extends 2.5 mi southwest, from southern terminus) |
| Geography | |
 Dugway Range
Dugway Range
in Utah |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Utah |
| Regions | (Great Basin Desert &) (south perimeter of)- Great Salt Lake Desert |
| Counties | Tooele and Juab |
| Communities | Fish Springs (site), Callao and (Dugway, UT) |
| Borders on |
Great Salt Lake Desert-W, N & NNE Granite Peak, (7082 ft)-NNW Dugway Valley-E & SE Thomas Range-S & SSE Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge & Range-SW |
The Dugway Range is a 13-mile (21 km) long 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 8-mi long Granite Mountain lies 4-mi north of the range; the mountain is a traveler's landmark with landscape sketches made in the 1800s (1859).
The Dugway Range is about 13-mi long, with a spur on the south terminus. The spur extends 2.5 mi southwest into the Great Salt Lake Desert. The spur, Dugway Ridge, is about 5-mi long, south-southwest trending mostly, and ends at Pyramid Peak, 6,120 feet (1,865 m).
The highpoint of the range is Castle Mountain (Utah), 6,748 feet (2,057 m)), near the range's center, in the main ridgeline region.
With the elevation of the Great Salt Lake about 4200 ft (4196, in 2006), and Bonneville Salt Flats, at 4,219 feet (1,286 m), the surrounding salt flats around the mountain range, are about 4220 ft. 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, 5,554 feet (1,693 m), (1,334 ft prominence, 5-mi diam.), 4-mi east of the Fish Lakes, and about 8-mi 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 17-mi. The valley contains Table Mountain Reservoir (0.15 mi diameter), located 3-mi due-west of Table Mountain, 5,766 feet (1,757 m). 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 15-mi, a circuitous wash-bed, containing Old River Bed Road.
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