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template: byway.jade
id: "68996"
name: Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway
distance: "90"
duration: 3 to 4 hours to drive the byway.
description: "Although one might look at Utah’s northwestern region and see nothing but vast, isolated desert, a sharp observer would see a historical playground distinguished by the Transcontinental Backcountry Byway."
contact: "**[BLM Salt Lake Field Office](http://www.ut.blm.gov/saltlake_fo/)**   \r\n2370 South 2300 West                                                     \r\nSalt Lake City, UT 84119                                                 \r\n801-977-4300                                                        \r\n"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/salt_lake.html"
    name: Salt Lake Field Office
  - url: "http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/salt_lake/recreation/back_country_byways/transcontinental_railroad.html"
    name: Transcontinental Railroad Backcountry Byway Official Website
designations: 
  - BLM Back Country Byway
  - Utah State Scenic Backway
states: 
  - UT
ll: 
  - -112.507812
  - 41.635200999999995
bounds: 
  - - -113.902763
    - 41.35588800000011
  - - -112.507812
    - 41.75529899999998

---

<p>Although one might look at Utah’s northwestern region and see nothing but vast, isolated desert, a sharp observer would see a historical playground distinguished by the Transcontinental Backcountry Byway. Traversing the flat lands of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the byway stretches between the area just west of Golden Spike National Historic Site and the Utah-Nevada border, following the deserted Central Pacific Railroad grade lain in 1903.</p>