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Utah Day 7: Antelope Island

3 June 2022 • 282 km / 175 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 19 June 2022
  • Utah 19

On our last full day of the trip, we took off a bit early to enjoy the sun and scenery.

Our explorations led us on an unsuccessful attempt to find Promontory Point, the location at which the first transcontinental railroad was completed. There were a few dead ends that were not marked as such on the map. Ah well.

A wide green field of young wheat stretches toward distant mountains, including a snow-dusted peak on the right, under a bright blue sky filled with wispy cirrus and towering white cumulus clouds. A strip of grass runs across the foreground and scattered rural houses and trees line the horizon.
west of Hooper, Utah
A wide expanse of dry golden grassland stretching to distant mountains under a vast blue sky filled with wispy cirrus and puffy cumulus clouds. A barbed wire fence with weathered posts runs across the foreground.
west of West Weber, Utah

We then drove to Antelope Island State Park, which I had visited a couple of months earlier.

A wide, calm expanse of the Great Salt Lake reflecting a blue sky with scattered clouds, with distant mountains along the horizon. In the foreground a sandy dirt road winds through flat scrubland covered in sagebrush and dry grasses.
Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A rocky, brush-covered ridge at Ladyfinger Point on Antelope Island, with pale weathered boulders in the foreground and the sun glowing through wispy clouds in a bright blue sky above the distant expanse of the Great Salt Lake.
Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A rocky trail with stone-and-concrete steps climbs between rugged tan and gray boulders at Ladyfinger Point, with a wooden handrail post and beam beside the path, sagebrush and desert grasses growing among the rocks, and a blue sky scattered with clouds above.
Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A gray, patterned snake winds across pale rocky terrain scattered with dirt, gravel, and dry grass at Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park. Its coiled body stretches down among the light-colored weathered boulders.
Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A wide, exposed shoreline of mud and salt flats stretches toward a shallow, glassy expanse of the Great Salt Lake, with sagebrush and scattered rocks in the foreground. Distant snow-dusted mountain ranges line the horizon beneath a vast blue sky streaked with wispy cirrus clouds.
Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
Ladyfinger Point, Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah · by Lisa Rozmyn
A wide desert landscape under a mostly clear blue sky with wispy clouds, showing a curving paved road cutting through sagebrush-covered hills, with pale flats and the Great Salt Lake in the distance and a range of snow-capped mountains along the horizon.
Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A two-lane paved road with yellow center lines curves across dry golden grassland toward rolling brown hills, with a herd of bison grazing along both sides of the road and a couple of cars ahead under a vast blue sky streaked with wispy clouds.
Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A weathered wooden rail fence in the foreground of a grassy plain with sagebrush at Antelope Island State Park, with a dry lakebed and rolling brown hills to the left and distant mountains under a blue sky scattered with clouds.
Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah
A weathered white metal gate flanked by old wooden fence posts blocks a gravel path leading across a wide, dry lakebed and grassy shoreline, with snow-capped mountains and a distant town under a mostly blue sky in the background.
Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah

Salt Lake City to Antelope Island State Park, west of Syracuse, Utah · 282 km / 175 mi
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