The Saline Valley salt tram is located in Inyo County, California, United States.

[1] The next year, White Smith, a Tennessee-born attorney working for Conn and Trudo as a teamster,[2][5] organized the Saline Valley Salt Company (SVSC).

The SVSC mined the valley's salt on a small scale from 1903 until the company's president, L. Bourland, died in 1905.

[2] In 1908, the SVSC began studying how to move salt more economically from the Saline Valley to the Southern Pacific railroad station near Keeler, California.

A pipeline would not allow for the moving of freight into the Saline Valley, however,[5][7] and in 1911 the SVSC decided to instead construct an aerial tram.

[2][6] In order to determine the route and cost of the tramway, the SVSC began a survey of the region to be crossed in April 1911.

To transport materials, a road on the western slopes was extended and a team of eight horses was employed for pulling supplies.

[16][20] On October 31, 1973, the Bureau of Land Management nominated the Saline Valley salt tram for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

[23][24] The National Park Service announced in May 2024 that part of the Salt Valley tram ruins had been damaged, stating that someone had toppled one of the towers in April while trying to extricate their vehicle from mud.

[25][26] Three days after the initial announcement, the NPS reported that the people responsible had contacted them and apologized for accidentally damaging the tower while attempting to escape a mire.