I wanted to share everything you need to know about Bonneville Salt Flats before you visit! WHERE ARE BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS LOCATED?īonneville Salt Flats are about 110 miles west of Salt Lake City off Interstate 80. Every single time I visit the salt flats they take my breath away with their natural and wondrous beauty! I mean come on, look at these pictures?! Doesn’t it look like another freaking planet?! We could be aliens on a Star Wars planet right? When you’re just about 30 minutes from the Nevada border, I swear they just pop out from nowhere. The salt flats are about 2 hours west of Salt Lake City and you really don’t see them until you see them! About an hour in, you’re going to be thinking, “ WHERE THE HECK ARE THEY?!” Don’t you worry your pretty little heart, they’re there. The salt flats are 12 miles long and 5 miles wide with total area coverage of just over 46 square miles. The salt flats are a 30,000 acre expanse of hard, white salt crust on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake basin in Utah. But a little farther to the north and west, low mountains break this neverending flat landscape and look as if they were floating.Let’s take a little trip west of Salt Lake City to a magical land called Bonneville Salt Flats.

To the east and south, the flats extend seemingly forever. The best spot to view the Salt Flats is located along I-80, east of Wendover, where you can also find a rest stop, offering restrooms and water. However the heat has its benefits as well-when it gets really hot, heat waves and salty soil can create amazing mirages. Note, that in summer the temperature rises to 40☌.

No vegetation grows on this extremely salty soil and the climate here is desertlike, critical for any animals or plants. In case of thunderstorms that also occur in the dry season, the area gets closed for vehicles. The water evaporates and the wind creates a perfectly smooth and hard surface again. If you want to ride across the flats, you're welcome to come between late July through October. Therefore, vehicles aren't allowed to the area. In winter and spring, the flat is covered with water, which makes salt crust softer and particularly vulnerable.

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