Tree of Life

A Swedish artist looked at the blankest place in Utah and decided it needed a tree. Karl Momen spent years and his own fortune raising it from the salt flats in the 1980s — eighty-odd feet of concrete and steel, its branches tipped with bright spheres, a few of them fallen to the ground like shed fruit. Momen dedicated it in 1986 and gave it to the state. You cannot stop for it; there is no exit, no path. It simply stands out there in the white, blooming for a valley with nothing else in it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bonneville Salt Flats — 16 mi
  A blindingly white desert where land speed records are born

More markers nearby

• Bonneville Salt Flats — 16 mi
• First Continental Telephone Line — 16 mi
• Historic Wendover Airfield — 23 mi