Salt Lake City, UT to Ely, NV. Final Section, US 93 & US 50
The Big Compromise
The Lincoln Highway Association favored the route south of Wendover between Dugway and Gold Hill as a cutoff across the Great Salt Flats. This route became known as the Goodyear Cutoff due to a donation by the Goodyear Tire Company. Greatly underfunded, it was never finished.
The State of Utah preferred the Victory Highway route to Wendover. In 1924 federal road money was used to build the Wendover Cutoff. The Lincoln Highway Association was closing its doors in 1927 and wanted to have a complete coast-to-coast highway. A compromise was worked out, which included building a road between West Wendover and Ely, linking the Victory to the Lincoln Highway.
View Lincoln Highway in a larger map
