Stansbury Park: Canyon Road
Canyon Road is best known within Utah for its junction with State Route 36 near Stansbury Park and Lake Point. This broad highway corridor follows the eastern side of Tooele Valley, where commercial yards and service businesses meet open ground at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains. Stansbury Park lies on the southern side of Great Salt Lake and developed as a planned residential community; its name recalls Howard Stansbury, the U.S. Army officer who led a survey of Great Salt Lake in 1849–50. The Canyon Road intersection is part of the road network linking the community with Lake Point, Interstate 80 and the rest of Tooele County. Through traffic, roadside enterprise and mountain-front terrain give this stretch a distinctly practical character.
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