---
id: "68994"
name: Silver Island Mountain Loop Scenic Backway
distance: "54"
duration: 2 or 3 hours to drive the byway.
description: Located 120 miles west of Salt Lake City, Silver Island Mountain Loop Scenic Backway follows a 54-mile loop in northwest Utah.
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organization:
  - url: https://www.blm.gov/visit/silver-island-mountains-backcountry-byway-bcb
    name: Bureau of Land Management
websites:
  - url: https://www.thearmchairexplorer.com/utah/silver-island-mountains-back-country-byway.php
    name: The Armchair Explorer
attractions:
  - url: https://publiclands.org/pages/site?=1762
    name: Public Lands Interpretive Association
designations:
  - BLM Back Country Byway
  - Utah State Scenic Backway
states:
  - UT
ll:
  - -113.98010299999999
  - 40.768921000000034
bounds:
  - - -114.00212899999997
    - 40.74209152457315
  - - -113.66525999999993
    - 41.008499000000086

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Follow the Silver Island Mountain Loop Scenic Backway along its 54-mile loop around the Silver Island Mountains and through Utah's Great Basin Desert. Revel in the solitude of Silver Island Mountains as you hike, mountain bike, or rockhound on rocky terraces and watch some of the world's fastest vehicles zoom across the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Only four miles east of Wendover, Utah, the byway runs through a desert landscape marked with geological remnants of the region's volcanic past. Remnants of more recent history take the form of wagon wheel ruts embedded into the Historic California Trail which runs along the byway's north end.