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Massive salt pyramids stand tall against the blue sky, while pink-hued salt flats stretch out in every direction. It almost feels otherworldly — like you’ve stepped onto another planet.
The glistening white terrain of the Bonneville Salt Flats, a remnant of a prehistoric lakebed that is one of the American West’s many other-worldly landscapes, serves as a racetrack for land ...
The salt flats have also thinned by about a third over the last 60 years. Scientists believe its decline could be drought-related, due to industrial and human activity, nature’s natural course ...
The longstanding theory of how Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats formed is quickly dissolving. For decades, pretty much everyone assumed the photogenic, salty expanse west of the Great Salt ...
The Bonneville Salt Flats are one of Utah’s most iconic destinations. They may sit in a remote portion of western Utah, but people across the world know about t ...
The Bonneville Salt Flats is a completely flat field of salt over 30,000 acres, definitely unlike any track you've ever seen. Passing Salt Lake City and then the Great Salt Lake, ...
The flooded Bonneville Salt Flats are seen from Chopper 5 Tuesday. A geologist who has studied the area for six years says this is the wettest he's ever seen it.
The popularity of the Bonneville Salt Flats is booming. So much so, that some of the longtime, record breaking racers are finding they can't get a permit to get out there.
It has been long assumed that Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats was formed as its ancient namesake lake dried up 13,000 years ago. But new research from the University of Utah has gutted that ...
Just have fun with them," says the owner of the salt-covered Mercedes-Benz Gullwing. No, it's not a new SLS AMG, but an original 300SL that Bob Sirna bought a year out of college in the early 1980s.
But the expanse of salty crust began rapidly receding in the 1980s and hasn’t stopped. In just 30 years, the salt flats shrunk from 50 square miles to 35 square miles.