Great Salt Lake Desert The 1846 Donner Party's difficulties in making the crossing contributed to their becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Howard Stansbury explored the desert in 1849. In 1956, I-80 replaced the Wendover Cut-off across the desert, including a straight east-west section for ~ between the Cedar Mountains to the east and Wendover on the Utah/Nevada border. Following a railway completed across the desert's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1910, the flats were first used as a speedway in 1914. The world records for highest land speeds are regularly broken here. The Great Salt Lake Desert experiences a desert climate with hot summers
Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) is located near the top of the canyon, on a ridge between Harkers Canyon and Barneys Canyon, at 2580 m (8465 ft) elevation. The canyon empties out of the Oquirrh Mountains at 1490 m (4890 ft), near the unincorporated community of Bacchus and State Route 111, on the far western edge of the greater Salt Lake City metropolitan area. Harkers Canyon is located in the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Wildlife Management Unit 18. Harkers Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) Harkers Canyon is located west-southwest of downtown Salt Lake City, in Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. The canyon empties into