Tule Valley

Tule Valley
(1859: White Valley)
Endorheic basin
Shadow on the eponymic white rocks of Tule Valley
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Millard and extends into Juab County
Elevation	4,780 ft (1,457 m)
Lowest point	Tule Spring
- elevation	1,348 m (4,423 ft)
Area	248 sq mi (642 km2)
Population	0
Biome	central Basin & Range ecoregion
Geology	down-faulted graben (normal faults), carbonate knolls/horsts, alluvial sediments with marls
Period	Silurian-Devonian carbonates Quaternary sediments marls
Easiest access	1 paved road
GNIS ID, HUC	1438072 (1979), 16020303

Tule Valley, also known as White Valley, is a north-south trending endorheic valley within the Great Basin (geographically), Great Basin Desert (ecologically), and Basin and Range Province (tectonically) of west-central Utah. It is bounded on the west by the Confusion Range, on the east by the House Range, to the north by the Middle Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert, and the south by Wah Wah Valley and the Wah Wah Mountains. The central part of the valley has several knolls, the largest of which is Coyote Knolls. The White Valley name comes from the abundance of white rocks noted by James H. Simpson in 1859. These rocks are mostly Lake Bonneville marls in the valley floor.

Tule Valley's most prominent feature may be Coyote Springs, an important spring system for local wildlife and feral horses which populate the valley. It is also used as a gateway to viewing and traveling toward the base of Notch Peak, a 4,450 foot carbonate rock cliff (2,200 foot of which is pure vertical drop), the tallest carbonate cliff in North America. The name "Tule" is a reference to a swamp plant that probably was found at Coyote Springs during early exploration of the valley.

The valley itself is very isolated, and only has one paved road through its southern end, US Highway 6/US Highway 50. There are no permanent human residents of the valley, though shepherds are known to populate it in the spring. The center of the valley is a large playa, the place where all precipitation from the drainage basin collects, since it is an isolated basin and watershed. This is the location of the lowest point in Millard County, Utah.