17/05: Reno to Salt Lake City
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
When I was researching our trip to California it looked like Interstate 80 was the obvious route home. Then I read that interstate 80 was really boring so I looked for an alternate route and found one that went thru the middle of Nevada and joined up with interstate 70 thru Utah and the mountains in Colorado. While we were in Reno we looked at the weather for the this week and determined that we would be driving in the mountains in the rain so we decided to go back to plane A and drive interstate 80 and I'm glad we did at least this leg.
Nevada is rolling hills with snow capped mountains in the background and a couple of passes (though not too high) thrown in. Utah is salt flats and hills.
A lot of the area we drove thru is open without without structures. Occasionally, you'd see a mine, a commercial type building in the distance, farms, and cows. Towns were no more than 100 kilometers apart.
Interesting tunnels, one for each purpose, one for each train track and one for each direction of traffic. (the hill is obscuring one of the traffic tunnels). The tunnels were short as tunnels go.
The highway.
Utah and Nevada allow trains of three trailers pulled by one semi.
So you've been driving thru the a lot of hills and green then you start down a hill and there in front of you are salt flats. The view is stunning --- even Ed gasped at the beauty of it.
The photo doesn't do the view justice. The flat area just shimmered in the distance. This is the Bonneville Salt Flats which is where racers come to set land speed records.
There is a rest area with an observation tower where you can look out over the salt flats.
At the edge of the salt flats.
Nevada is rolling hills with snow capped mountains in the background and a couple of passes (though not too high) thrown in. Utah is salt flats and hills.
A lot of the area we drove thru is open without without structures. Occasionally, you'd see a mine, a commercial type building in the distance, farms, and cows. Towns were no more than 100 kilometers apart.
Interesting tunnels, one for each purpose, one for each train track and one for each direction of traffic. (the hill is obscuring one of the traffic tunnels). The tunnels were short as tunnels go.
The highway.
Utah and Nevada allow trains of three trailers pulled by one semi.
So you've been driving thru the a lot of hills and green then you start down a hill and there in front of you are salt flats. The view is stunning --- even Ed gasped at the beauty of it.
The photo doesn't do the view justice. The flat area just shimmered in the distance. This is the Bonneville Salt Flats which is where racers come to set land speed records.
There is a rest area with an observation tower where you can look out over the salt flats.
At the edge of the salt flats.