Kelton Cemetery

Kelton began in 1869 as a section stop on the transcontinental line — Mile 734 from San Francisco, its water piped seven miles from the Raft River Mountains. For a while it thrived as a freight and stage hub, and its Wells Fargo run to the northern mines earned a grim distinction: the most-robbed stage line in the West, held up nearly every week. Then the Lucin Cutoff bypassed it in 1904, a 1934 earthquake cracked it open, and in 1942 the rails were pulled for scrap. The cemetery is the last of Kelton still legible on the ground.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spiral Jetty — 31 mi
  Robert Smithsons iconic land art masterpiece on the Great Salt Lake