![]() Woo hoo! Someone warned us that the drive out there was “really long and boring” but we couldn’t get over how beautiful it was. Including driving fast to get there! I was very pleased when I found out the speed limit on the highway was 75 mph. We could sure smell it!īack to our history lesson… the lake has actually dropped more since the “release” (aka a flood), and you can see different “shelves” on the mountains that represent past water height levels. This is as close as we got to Great Salt Lake on the drive to the Bonneville Salt Flats. ![]() ![]() Lake Bonneville was formed about 32,000 years ago, and “ released” about 14,500 years ago, leaving Great Salt Lake and other surrounding lakes as remnants. Did you know what the Bonneville Salt Flats were before I started blah blahing about them this week?īrief history lesson – there used to be a huge arse lake covering much of northwestern Utah, called Lake Bonneville (named after Benjamin Bonneville – a French-born officer in the US Army). Of course, I knew what the Bonneville Salt Flats are, as I come from a family of men obsessed with cars… and married a man who is. After all my talk yesterday about what a great “sorta” planner I am, I have to admit that one of the coolest places my mom and I went to in Salt Lake City – the Bonneville Salt Flats – wasn’t even on my radar as a place to visit.
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