Ready to Rock

Rock Springs, Wyo.—less than a three-hour drive on Interstate 80 from Salt Lake City—is a landscape very different from the Wasatch Front, featuring sand dunes that seem to run on forever, and places to watch herds of wild horses running free. Yet it’s also intimately tied to the Salt Lake Valley through its history. Visitors can reach right down and touch the exposed ruts where the wagon wheels of the first Mormon pioneers rolled through on their way to the Salt Lake Valley in the summer of 1847. [Read more]