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Approach to Floating Island | Mud Flats and UTTR Gate 74 | Hike to Top of Floating Island

Approach to Floating Island

The approach to Floating Island is via the Silver Island Backcountry Byway (a gravel road) and a
minor unnamed side road, part of which is a causeway that crosses the mud flats. NOTE: Very few
maps---not even the USGS topographic map of the area---show the minor side road nor the causeway.
The jumping-off point for this approach is an interstate highway interchange just east of Wendover, Utah.

Topographic map for Floating Island itself: USGS Floating Island (1:24,000).
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Floating Island floats
Floating Island "floats"		 Road and ridge
Road and ridge		 BLM sign
BLM sign		 Asphalt leads to Exit 4
Asphalt leads to Exit 4
Directions
Directions		 Rishel Peak
Rishel Peak		 Mountain details
Mountain details		 Pointing mountain
Pointing mountain
Floating Island awaits
Floating Island awaits		 Crusty boulder
Crusty boulder		 Mountains
Mountains		 Pyramid
Pyramid
Photo stop
Photo stop		 Bumpy mountains
Bumpy mountains		 Layers
Layers		 Tetzlaff Peak and Peak 4944
Tetzlaff Peak and Peak 4944
Route to Floating Island
Route to Floating Island		 Causeway view
Causeway view		 Playa and causeway
Playa and causeway		 Cracked mud
Cracked mud
Summits
Summits		 Main summit
Main summit

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Al Booton 10-Mar-2006 02:28
I have been to the salt flats 3 times, but never closer to floating mountain than the racing area.
Thanks for the close up look.
Al Booton
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