The Wendover Cut-off, also called the Wendover Road or Wendover Route, is a two-lane highway in the western part of Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. Stretching 40.3 miles (64.9 km) from Wendover to Knolls across the Bonneville Salt Flats, a part of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the cut-off was once part of the primary link between the Nevada state line and Salt Lake City. In 2012, between 240 and 250 vehicles used the cut-off near its western terminus in Wendover on an average day.
Near the eastern terminus in 2011
Western Pacific Railroad in Salduro (1911)
Along the cut-off during the 1922 wet season
Tooele County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 72,698. Its county seat and largest city is Tooele. The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year.
Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall in Tooele, Utah.
Minerals discovered in Tooele County led to a population boom.
The old Tooele County Courthouse was site of a political power struggle in 1874.