Salt Lake City boasts unique natural environments, including the Great Salt Lake, Bonneville Salt Flats, and Antelope Island State Park, offering outdoor activities such as racing, boating, skiing, and wildlife watching.
Salt Lake City has some of the most unique natural environments in the world. It is a city known for its extraordinary landscapes such as the Great Salt Lake, its mountains and marshes. Some of the most spectacular settings for outdoor activities in Salt Lake City include the Bonneville Salt Flats, the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island State Park.
The Bonneville Salt Flats are located in the Great Salt Lake wilderness and contain the only portion of prehistoric Lake Bonneville that remains today. The Bonneville Salt Flats is famous for Bonneville Speedway racing, one of the most unique and popular outdoor activities in Salt Lake City. The public can watch speed trials where drivers try to break speed racing records and these events have usually been held in the summer and fall. The Bonneville Salt Flats are also known for another of Salt Lake City’s most unique outdoor activities: seeing the curve of the Earth due to the salt flats’ adherent covering on the earth’s crust.
The Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere. The lake is very easy for most people to float on due to the very high salt content in the water. Some other popular activities in the Great Salt Lake area are boating and bird watching. Fishing is virtually out of the question here as the Great Salt Lake is too salty for any marine life to survive except seaweed and brine shrimp.
Antelope Island State Park is known for its white sand beaches and is named after the pronghorn antelope that inhabits the park. Bison, deer, coyote, elk, and bobcats also live in the park. Some popular outdoor activities in Salt Lake City’s Antelope Island State Park include swimming, camping, sailing, horseback riding, mountain biking, hiking, and cross-country skiing.
Skiing is one of the most popular winter outdoor activities in Salt Lake City. There are at least ten ski resorts here, and many of them hosted the alpine skiing events of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Salt Lake City’s ski resorts are known for offering slopes for skiers of all skill levels.
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