Great Salt Lake

As seen from a distance, the Sun Tunnels and a quickly approaching dust devil, in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert.

Lake Eyre is near the center of the continent a great salt lake, covering an area over 9000 square km, but the long-term status was dry.

Explorers visited the camp. They told Brigham Young about a great salt lake in a wide valley on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.

After Joseph Smith died, the early pioneers wandered through the desert until they found the great salt lake.

The Donner party finally made it through the Wasatch Mountains and arrived at the Great Salt Lake.

Gunnison Island in the Great Salt Lake has an important colony of American White Pelicans, with several thousand nesting here each spring.

Some set off in a wagon train and founded a city by the Great Salt Lake in what is now Utah.

These pioneers wanted an isolated place after the violence they had experienced, so the Great Salt Lake Valley seemed ideal.

Of course, that was my last time I tried to swim in the Great Salt Lake.

The name comes from a great salt lake nearby.

He started to move his people toward the Great Salt Lake as soon as the winter snows melted.

The Bonneville Salt Flats and the Great Salt Lake are remnants of ancient Lake Bonneville.

Some land-locked waters such as the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake contain waters that are nearly saturated with dissolved solids.

They decided on Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake; some 690 track-miles from Sacramento and 1, 086 from Omaha.

Sea salt from the Great salt lake is beige in color.

By 1824, Jim Bridger and other mountain men explored the Great Salt Lake desert region.

located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah;

Sunset over the Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah