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Utah Day 2: A Desert Road Trip

16 April 2022 • 886 km / 551 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 3 May 2022
  • Nevada 9 Utah 19

There are … more efficient … ways to get from Salt Lake to Park City. But … why? You’d miss out on some amazing scenery.

I love time to myself and especially in quiet/lonely desert landscapes, so having this day for a solo roadtrip was a special treat.

No services next 83 miles? Game on!

west of Delta, Utah

An empty two-lane highway with a yellow center line stretches straight toward a distant, hazy horizon across flat high desert scrub, under a wide blue sky filled with scattered white clouds. Dry brush, fence lines, and power line towers flank the road on both sides.
west of Delta, Utah
A wide desert basin west of Delta, Utah, with scrubby brush in the foreground giving way to a pale, dusty dry lakebed and rugged layered mountains on the horizon under a dramatic sky of blue and heavy white and gray clouds.
west of Delta, Utah
A rugged desert canyon under a bright midday sky filled with billowing white clouds, the sun flaring at top left; rocky ridges and craggy limestone outcrops flank a sagebrush-covered valley with scattered junipers.
west of Delta, Utah
A wide high-desert basin covered in sagebrush and pale sandy soil stretches toward a range of mountains under a dramatic sky of billowing white and gray clouds, with rain streaking down from the distant clouds over the peaks.
south of Eskdale, Utah
A two-lane highway with a yellow center line stretches across a vast high-desert plain of dry brush, with a wire fence along the roadside and distant snow-dusted mountains under a dramatic sky filled with towering white and gray clouds.
south of Eskdale, Utah
A wide desert basin covered in dry sagebrush and sparse scrub, with a barbed-wire fence and orange-and-white marker posts crossing the middle distance, backed by a long low mountain range under a dramatic sky of towering white and gray storm clouds.
south of Eskdale, Utah
An empty two-lane highway with a yellow center line stretches across a wide desert basin, with sagebrush lining the roadside and snow-dusted mountain peaks rising in the distance under a bright blue sky partly filled with dramatic white clouds.
north of Baker, Nevada
A dramatic gray storm cloud unleashes streaks of rain and virga over an arid high-desert basin, with a dark cone-shaped hill on the left and distant mountains on the right, above sagebrush and a dirt road in the foreground.
north of Ely, Nevada
A wide high-desert basin south of McGill, Nevada, with sagebrush and dry grass in the foreground giving way to flat scrubland and low mountains on the right. Heavy gray storm clouds fill most of the sky, with faint rain streaking down toward distant peaks.
south of McGill, Nevada
Frosty Stand · McGill, Nevada
A wide panoramic view of a high desert basin covered with sagebrush and dry grasses, with distant mountains partly obscured by low clouds and rain showers under a dramatic blue sky filled with towering white and gray clouds.
north of McGill, Nevada

Ooh, I love a good dramatic thunderstorm. We don’t get those so much in the Northwest. Here we go!

A dramatic, dark storm cloud looms over a flat high-desert landscape, its heavy gray tendrils hanging low across the horizon above distant mountains. In the foreground, dry brush and sagebrush dot pale sandy soil beside a two-lane highway with a small yellow road sign.
north of McGill, Nevada
A straight two-lane highway with a double yellow center line stretches into the distance across a flat desert plain, its road markings converging toward the horizon. Beyond the sagebrush and dry scrubland, low mountains rise under a wide blue sky filled with towering white clouds.
south of West Wendover, Nevada
A wide, calm expanse of shallow water and mudflats reflecting a range of snow-capped mountains under a broad, cloud-filled sky, with scattered wooden posts and a distant road embankment.
north of Grantsville, Utah

Salt Lake City to Park City, Utah · 886 km / 551 mi
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