---
id: "68996"
name: Central Pacific Railroad Trail Scenic Backway
distance: "90"
duration: 3 to 4 hours to drive the byway.
description: Although one might look at Utah’s northwestern region and see nothing but vast, isolated desert, a sharp observer would see a historical playground distinguished by the Central Pacific Railroad Trail Scenic Backway.
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organization:
  - url: https://www.blm.gov/visit/transcontinental-railroad-backcountry-byway-bcb-east-access
    name: Bureau of Land Management
websites:
  - url: https://www.thearmchairexplorer.com/utah/transcontinental-railroad-back-country-byway.php
    name: The Armchair Explorer
attractions:
  - url: https://www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm
    name: Golden Spike National Historical Park
designations:
  - BLM Back Country Byway
  - Utah State Scenic Backway
states:
  - UT
ll:
  - -112.507812
  - 41.635200999999995
bounds:
  - - -113.902763
    - 41.35588800000011
  - - -112.507812
    - 41.75529899999998

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Although one might look at Utah’s northwestern region and see nothing but vast, isolated desert, a sharp observer would see a historical playground distinguished by the Central Pacific Railroad Trail Scenic Backway. Traversing the flat lands of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the byway stretches between the area just west of Golden Spike National Historic Site and the Utah-Nevada border, following the deserted Central Pacific Railroad grade lain in 1903.