Stansbury Mountains

[2] It is named for U.S. Army Major Howard Stansbury, a topographical engineer, who led an expedition that surveyed the region.

The range trends north–south, reaching from the southwest of the Great Salt Lake at Stansbury Bay into the region of the southeast Great Salt Lake Desert.

Its northernmost 3 miles narrow at Timpie to Long Rock Basin.

The east side of the range contains numerous communities and the Tooele Army Depot at multiple sites.

Interstate 80 lies at the north end of the range at Timpie, connecting Delle west to Burmester east.

southeast view of west Stansburys, (over Skull Valley ), from Cedar Mountain Wilderness , in the Cedar Mountains
View ESE of northwest region at Delle , northeast foothills of Cedar Mountains