Stansbury Mountains

Stansbury Mountains
View south-southeast, from Timpie area
Highest point
Peak	Deseret Peak
Elevation	11,035 ft (3,363 m)
Coordinates	40°27′34.25″N 112°37′34.76″W / 40.4595139°N 112.6263222°W / 40.4595139; -112.6263222
Dimensions
Length	28 mi (45 km) N-S
Geography
Stansbury Mountains Stansbury Mountains in Utah
Country	United States
State	Utah
Regions	Great Basin Desert and Great Salt Lake Desert
County	Tooele
Communities	Timpie, Flux, Burmester, Grantsville, Iosepa, Rush Valley, Saint John, Clover and Terra
Range coordinates	40°31′02″N 112°38′01″W / 40.5171636°N 112.6335728°W / 40.5171636; -112.6335728
Borders on	Skull Valley, Cedar Mountains, Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Island, Tooele Valley, Rush Valley, Onaqui Mountains and Great Salt Lake Desert

The Stansbury Mountains are a 28-mile (45 km) long^[1] mountain range located in eastern Tooele County, Utah.^[2] It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury, a topographical engineer, who led an expedition that surveyed the region.

The range trends north–south, reaching from the southwest of the Great Salt Lake at Stansbury Bay into the region of the southeast Great Salt Lake Desert. Its southwest perimeter is adjacent to Dugway (and the Dugway Proving Ground), and along its western base lies Skull Valley, which trends north from Dugway. The south of the range contains the Deseret Peak Wilderness, with much of the range as part of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.