Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake is bleak yet beautiful, mysterious and alluring, an endangered dead sea vital to life. Explorer Jedediah Smith, surrounded by a vast wilderness, realized this felt to him like home. Conservationist John Muir found in the briny waters a sublime baptism and came out, in his words, salted and clean as a saint. Nineteenth-century Utahns built the first resorts, such as Saltair; bathed and floated in the water; and began extracting valuable salts and minerals from the ever-fluctuating lake. Ringed with wildlife refuges, it is a haven for migrating birds. With multiple state parks, Antelope Island among them, Great Salt Lake is today a magnet for sight-seeing, swimming, hiking, biking, horse riding, and sailing--just a few of the ways to experience what pioneer-era surveyor Howard Stansbury described as a great and peculiar beauty.

Author: Lynn Arave, Ray Boren
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 10/03/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781467109000
ISBN10: 1467109002
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation | Resorts & Spas
- Sports & Recreation | Water Sports | General