The Salt Lake Cutoff is one of the many shortcuts (or cutoffs) that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States. It led...

The most prominent feature of the cutoff was a twelve-mile-long (19 km) railroad trestle crossing the Great Salt Lake, which was in use from 1904 until...

West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described. The cutoff left the Oregon Trail...

newly established Salt Lake City, Utah. From Salt Lake the Salt Lake Cutoff (est. 1848) went north and west of the Great Salt Lake and rejoined the California...

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern...

called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day...

from Fort Bridger and the Salt Lake Cutoff trail. To raise much-needed money and facilitate travel on the Salt Lake Cutoff they set up several ferries...

from Fort Bridger and the Salt Lake Cutoff trail. To raise much needed money and facilitate travel on the Salt Lake Cutoff they set up several ferries...

community in the US Elliott Cutoff Hastings Cutoff Lander Cutoff Lassen Cutoff Meek Cutoff Salt Lake Cutoff Tucson Cutoff Woodbury Cutoff Cut-off or kutte, a...

Salt Lake Cutoff from Salt Lake City north of the Great Salt Lake when he traveled east while returning to Missouri. The Salt Lake cutoff rejoined the...

the 1840s, westward emigrants used the Hastings Cutoff through 130 miles (210 km) of Great Salt Lake desert to reduce the distance to California. The...

(April 1973). "Lansford W. Hastings and the Promotion of the Great Salt Lake Cutoff: A Reappraisal". The Western Historical Quarterly. 4 (2): 133–150....

recreational bathing in the Great Salt Lake in recorded history." The ill-fated Donner Party, taking the Hastings Cutoff alternative route to California...

The Denver and Salt Lake Railway (D&SL) was a U.S. railroad company located in Colorado. Originally incorporated in 1902 as the Denver, Northwestern and...

Creek-Kenny Cutoff". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-02-16. Grays Lake National Wildlife...

formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The promontory...

February 2019. "Lansford W. Hastings and the Promotion of the Salt Lake Desert Cutoff: A Reappraisal," Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 4 No. 2 (Apr...

Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846 (not affiliated with the Mormon Pioneers) and where the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley...

United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers...

Lucin Cutoff intersects the east coast of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake. The cutoff passes...

The Pengra Pass rail route, also known as the Natron Cutoff, the Cascade Subdivision, or the Cascade Line, is a Union Pacific Railroad line (originally...

commonly known as the Dotsero Cutoff, was completed on June 15, 1934 and finally provided Denver with a direct link to Salt Lake City, making Dotsero the junction...

the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory...

Lake Point is a city on the eastern edge of northern Tooele County, Utah, United States. It is located 17 miles southwest of Salt Lake City International...

trestle across the Great Salt Lake between Ogden and Lucin, between February 1902 and March 1904. The 102.9 mi (165.6 km) Lucin Cutoff completely bypassed...

when his expedition encountered it while exploring what became the Fremont Cutoff on May 1, 1844: We encamped at a spring in the pass, which had been the...

Juan River, Natural Bridges, Canyonlands, Arches, and the Book Cliffs. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. p. 304. ISBN 9781607810049. Fillmore 2010...

Engineering Record (HAER) No. UT-22, "Lincoln Highway, Wendover Cutoff, Great Salt Lake Desert, Knolls, Tooele County, UT", 5 photos, 3 measured drawings...

cutoff was the result of isostatic rise being faster than the concurrent post-glacial sea level rise. In the words of Svante Björck the Ancylus Lake "is...

States, located along the western side of the Great Salt Lake, 162 miles (261 km) northwest of Salt Lake City. Abandoned in 1936 by its original occupants...