Lincoln Highway

Grantsville was on the first road across America, then off it, then on again. The Lincoln Highway came through town when it was routed in 1913. In 1919 a new road over Johnson's Pass opened to the south, and the Lincoln Highway Association moved its line there, aiming at the Goodyear Cutoff — a shortcut across the desert mud flats that Goodyear money began and Utah never finished. The state was backing its own road straight west to Wendover. That road won: in 1927 the association adopted it, and the highway ran back through Grantsville.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Great Salt Lake — 10 mi
  The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere
• Bingham Canyon Mine — 18 mi
  The largest man-made excavation on Earth
• Saltair — 23 mi
  A haunting lakeside resort with a storied past
• Antelope Island State Park — 29 mi
  A rugged island in the Great Salt Lake with free-roaming bison

More markers nearby

• Donner-Reed Memorial Museum & Early Bldgs. — 0.4 mi
• Grantsville Fort — 0.5 mi
• Hilda Anderson Erickson — 1.9 mi
• E.T. Benson Grist Mill — 10 mi