Wendover

The landscape around Wendover is an arid reach of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, which has shaped both the town’s compact borderland form and its links to transport, aviation and cross-border commerce. The Bonneville Salt Flats begin east of town, their hard salt crust associated with land-speed record attempts and a defining feature of the western Utah basin. Wendover sits beside the Nevada state line, where adjoining West Wendover developed as a casino destination under Nevada law. Wendover Airfield preserves the legacy of a major Second World War base; the 509th Composite Group trained here before the atomic missions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Trace Wendover’s place in Utah’s desert borderlands by browsing webcams across the surrounding region.

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