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2 unusual facts about Wasatch Range


Wasatch Range

Three more ski resorts lie here, as well as several small towns (such as Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden).

They meet near the ghost town of Echo on the eastern slopes of the range and continue northeast as I-80.


Fort Bridger

In 1845, Lanford Hastings published a guide entitled The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California, which advised California emigrants to leave the Oregon Trail, at Fort Bridger, pass through the Wasatch Range, across the Great Salt Lake Desert, an 80-mile waterless drive, loop around the Ruby Mountains, and rejoin the California Trail about seven miles west of modern Elko (also Emigrant Pass).


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