The Salt Lake Cutoff is one of the many shortcuts (or cutoffs) that branched from the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails in the United States. It led...

The most prominent feature of the cutoff was a twelve-mile-long (19 km) railroad trestle crossing the Great Salt Lake, which was in use from 1904 until...

West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described. The cutoff left the Oregon Trail...

newly established Salt Lake City, Utah. From Salt Lake the Salt Lake Cutoff (est. 1848) went north and west of the Great Salt Lake and rejoined the California...

(April 1973). "Lansford W. Hastings and the Promotion of the Great Salt Lake Cutoff: A Reappraisal". The Western Historical Quarterly. 4 (2): 133–150....

community in the US Elliott Cutoff Hastings Cutoff Lander Cutoff Lassen Cutoff Meek Cutoff Salt Lake Cutoff Tucson Cutoff Woodbury Cutoff Cut-off or kutte, a...

called the Hastings Cutoff, which bypassed established trails and instead crossed the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range and the Great Salt Lake Desert in present-day...

from Fort Bridger and the Salt Lake Cutoff trail. To raise much-needed money and facilitate travel on the Salt Lake Cutoff they set up several ferries...

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern...

Salt Lake Cutoff from Salt Lake City north of the Great Salt Lake when he traveled east while returning to Missouri. The Salt Lake cutoff rejoined the...

from Fort Bridger and the Salt Lake Cutoff trail. To raise much needed money and facilitate travel on the Salt Lake Cutoff, they set up several ferries...

the 1840s, westward emigrants used the Hastings Cutoff through 130 miles (210 km) of Great Salt Lake desert to reduce the distance to California. The...

recreational bathing in the Great Salt Lake in recorded history." The ill-fated Donner Party, taking the Hastings Cutoff alternative route to California...

United States, was a seasonal wagon road pioneered by a Mormon party from Salt Lake City, Utah led by Jefferson Hunt, that followed the route of Spanish explorers...

February 2019. "Lansford W. Hastings and the Promotion of the Salt Lake Desert Cutoff: A Reappraisal," Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 4 No. 2 (Apr...

The Denver and Salt Lake Railway (D&SL) was a U.S. railroad company located in Colorado. It was incorporated in 1902 as the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific...

Klingensmith (Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1995), pp. 118, 124. See Salt Lake Cutoff and the California Trail Archived 2016-10-18 at the Wayback Machine...

Creek-Kenny Cutoff". Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-02-16. Grays Lake National Wildlife...

formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake in southeastern Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The promontory...

the Mormon pioneers, west from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory...

trestle across the Great Salt Lake between Ogden and Lucin, between February 1902 and March 1904. The 102.9 mi (165.6 km) Lucin Cutoff completely bypassed...

Hastings Cutoff route used by the Donner Party in 1846 (not affiliated with the Mormon Pioneers) and where the Mormon Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley...

Promontory Point at the southern tip of the range via the Lucin Cutoff railroad causeway across the lake. The Promontory Mountains are a block fault range typical...

commonly known as the Dotsero Cutoff, was completed on June 15, 1934 and finally provided Denver with a direct link to Salt Lake City, making Dotsero the junction...

Lucin Cutoff intersects the east coast of the peninsula formed where the Promontory Mountains project into the northern Great Salt Lake. The cutoff passes...

The Pengra Pass rail route, also known as the Natron Cutoff, the Cascade Subdivision, or the Cascade Line, is a Union Pacific Railroad line (originally...

between Denver and Salt Lake City. In 1932, the D&RGW began construction of the Dotsero Cutoff. The southwestern end of the cutoff became known as Dotsero...

Southern Pacific's Pacific Limited as it crossed the Great Salt Lake on the Lucin Cutoff. It had departed from Chicago at 10 a.m. the prior Friday (Dec...

Meek Cutoff was a horse trail road that branched off the Oregon Trail in northeastern Oregon and was used as an alternate emigrant route to the Willamette...

cutoff was the result of isostatic rise being faster than the concurrent post-glacial sea level rise. In the words of Svante Björck the Ancylus Lake "is...