![]() ![]() ![]() There are no services there, but just after you leave the interstate, there is a Sinclair Fuel Center and a C-store selling touristy things, drinks and sandwiches. It's free to visit during the non-season. Covering 30,000 acres, the flats are about 12 miles long and 5 miles wide. Most of the water from this spring's snow-melt was gone, but there was much sticky mud alongside the road as we drove out there. The Bonneville Salt Flats, are one of the most impressive natural wonders in Utah. We drove out on the flats and took some fun pictures. We were blessed on the weekday we visited in June to not have the drive-in cul-de-sac going out on the flats be crowded, and more importantly, there was light cloud cover, so we were not blinded or baked. We took care to clean off our footwear before getting back in the car. Bonneville Salt Flats: Information, maps and photos of the Bonneville Salt Flats, a Bureau of Land Management Area of Critical Environmental Concern in Utah. The crust is thinning, but it's still thickest in the center and less than one inch toward the edges. The Flats are 12 miles long and roughly 5 miles wide. Today it's used to set land speed records during the racing season in August. It's the remnants of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville, which also formed the Great Salt Lake. To learn about this very interesting place was fascinating to me. ![]()
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