The Great Salt Lake is reported to be the largest fresh or salt water lake in the United Sates after the Great Lake’s.
The Great Salt Lake provides outstanding scenery and recreational opportunities. Sunsets over the lake can be breathtaking. Amazing red, orange, lavender hues can be seen in the evening sky. The lake is popular for its sail boating and going into the lake provides you with a one of a kind experience – you float effortlessly – you have to see it to believe it (the water is so full of salt you float!).
The Great Salt Lake also has Island’s, one of the most popular Antelope Island is know for its wildlife – bison roam freely and the shores of the island draw hikers and bikers alike.
If you are into fossil hunting you are in for a delightful time!
Originally the Great Salt Lake was part of Lake Bonneville. Lake Bonneville was a large, ancient lake that existed from about 32 to 14 thousand years ago. It occupied the lowest, closed depression in the eastern Great Basin and at its largest extent covered about 20,000 square miles of western Utah and smaller portions of eastern Nevada and southern Idaho. After the Lake Bonneville flood, the Great Basin gradually became warmer and drier. Lake Bonneville began to shrink due to increased evaporation.
Today's Great Salt Lake is a large remnant of Lake Bonneville, and occupies the lowest depression in the Great Basin.
