Tooele County Attractions

Grantsville (pop. 6,800) is the second-largest town in Tooele County. Grantsville was founded in 1850 and has been known as Twenty Wells and Willow Creek. It hosts the Tooele County Livestock show in mid-July.

The disaster that occurred in 1846 when the Donner party went missing in the wilderness is recounted at the Donner-Reed Pioneer Museum in Grantsville. It features artifacts left behind by the party before they tried their disastrous crossing of the mountains.

The historic mining town of Ophir (pop. 22) is located 20mi/32km south of Tooele in northcentral Utah. Many of the buildings date from the town's founding in 1870.

Rush Valley (pop. 450) is a town in Tooele County that was established in 1856.

A band of Goshute Indians have their own reservation in Tooele County in western Utah, 45mi/72km southwest of Salt Lake City. The Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation encompasses approximately 18,000 acres.

Stockton (pop. 440) a small town in Tooele County, Utah. It was founded in 1864.

Vernon (pop. 240) was founded in 1862. It is located in Tooele County to the west of Provo.

Wendover (pop. 1,500) is the third-largest town in Tooele County. It was founded in 1907 and is located on the western Utah border. It shares a border with West Wendover, Nevada.

The Bonneville Speedway Museum in Wendover has films from the various speed records broken on the 26,000 acres of salt flats called the Bonneville Salt Flats. The museum also has other racing memorabilia.