Show This map sho shows s route of Oquirrh oquirrh Circle Tour and p points ints I of interest along the the way I II II I I r- r I W w f X i 1 I Ir r Tr I I I r I 1 I lA 1 The huge Bingham Copper Mine said to be the largest man-made man excavation in the world is the fitting climax to many attractions attraction on Oquirrh Circle Tour OQUIRRH CIRCLE TOUR i Editors Editor's Note This is one Ina in ina a series of articles on 21 Tours 1 Through the Different World of Utah These Tours have been I planned by tie fe Utah Tourist and Publicity Council to show you Utah's most outstanding attractions with the least amount of driving in the shortest time and nd over the b best t roads Toads available By taking each euch a h hone one of the Y burs purs a lB a person p person rs ri could conceivably see the en en Ure tire state sUrte on yo k ends within a year ol of Gh Ghost st towns of yesteryear and modern mining operations tell the I story of ot mineral on 1 I the Oquirrh Circle Tour southwest south south- southwest west of Salt Lake Valley The tour b begins gris and ends in Salt Lake City and covers c vers miles mUes of paved highway with I I abort 46 40 miles of side aide trips It I takes about one to two days and can be taken anytime ot of of the year although Middle Canyon near Tooele Is closed clO d during the tho win win- ter And as an added hint take along a b basket lunch t to eat along the way j I Though not as sp spectacularly 1 rugged as 88 the Wasatch It the i Oquirrh Range forms a striking I western horizon for tor Salt Lake Valley The range is h hardly known by name outside of Utah but bat it has produced more mineral mineraI wealth than mountains of far greater fame Came Since huge Bingham CopperMine Copper CopperMine CopperMine Mine is the high point of ot this tour it is to wise to leave that attraction at attraction traction till last a at a fitting titling climax climax So the tour Is described In in that order I Route Outlined I US U.S. 40 O skirts the new International Inter Inter- national Airport one Airport one of ot the nations nation's natIon nations nation's na na- tion's tIon most modern and modern and heads I westward across the almost completely corn com flat bottom of or Bonneville I II Basin toward Great Salt Lake I rom Il From Frog the highway can be seen een I i large salt producing plants anda and I IB I a B short distance west rise the thai I II I curious shapes of old Saltair a aj aI I time one popular lake resort no longer in use The highway cur I Ved veo around the lake which caRbe can caR be seen not far away also vis vis- V visible 11 ible are huge mills smelters and anti refineries at Magna and Garfield which process ores from Ding Bing ham If It you care to swim ju to the lake Sunset Beach Is open dur tag ing summer months It is ImpO impossible sible to sink in Great Salt Lake The tour route leaves Highway 40 at Mills Junction and passes passed through Tooele Valley Note I sprawling Tooele Army Depot Note 10 to the west and Tooele Smelter I against the mountains to the east Detour at Tooele for far a I thrilling climb up Middle Canyon to the Oquirrh summit over over looking BIngham Mine Salt 1 Lake Valley and Utah Valley in w r y w I one df dt f the states state's most Impressive impressive sive panoramas This drive is not for thO tha-e tha having a fear ot of heights Historic Places South of ot Tooele the highway I enters vast Rush Valley and passes through Stockton a historic historic his his- mining town Short detours lead east to Ophir one of Utah's colorful old mining communities still almost t intact and the ruins of of Mercur another mining town of ot yesteryear At Fairfield visit the military Cemetery Old Stagecoach Inn an and Army Commissary all three tAree comprising Camp Floyd Historic State Park Then drive on to ta I State 68 68 turn north into Salt I Lake Valley and follow State along the Oquirrh foothills to Bingham Canyon locale of the largest open cut mine in the world an an immense hold which pro pra almost a third of the na nations nation's Lions tion's copper Continuing northward northward north north- ward pass U b ge Hercules mis mis- I elle sile Install at Bacchus where where stages sta ea of ot the the n h and Polaris rockets are produced At Magna view the great ore ore- I processing mills then return taI to ta I Salt Lake City via US U.S. 50 60 O I South which affords a grand p panoramic sweep 0 of the Wasatch peaks Those wishing to obtain an Il 11 Illustrated U. U I copy of ot all aU 21 Tows Tours iu the series can do so by sending I 25 cents to the Utah Tourist and I Publicity Council Council House Hause House I State Capitol Salt Lake City 14 H Utah |