How Do You Visit The Bonneville Salt Flats In Utah?
You may never have heard of the Bonneville Salt Flats, but if you watch TV or movies or read magazines, you have probably seen them many times without knowing it. The salt flats show up repeatedly in car commercials and other advertisements. Scenes from many movies, including “Independence Day,” were filmed here. It is also the place where many land speed records have been set. If you’re nearby, it is worth a trip. What are the Bonneville Salt Flats? In a nutshell, they are a geological and geographical anomaly, the bottom of an ancient inland ocean that no longer exists. The ancient ocean left behind a lot of salt in large area that is extremely flat. The area is now considered a desert, and it is surrounded by mountain ranges that used to be islands. How to get there: Get off at Exit 4 on I-80 in Utah and head north. Take the first right on Salt Flats Road and head east until it dead-ends. There will be no signs to guide you at this point, and all you will see will be the salt flats
