Desert Wonder · Utah

Bonneville Salt Flats

A blinding-white salt plain and land-speed mecca

TypeDesert Wonder
StateUtah
Best seasonLate summer (dry; Speed Week mid-Aug)
How to visitFree; drive onto the flats only when fully dry (never when wet)

A dead-flat sheet of salt stretching to the curve of the earth west of the Great Salt Lake — surreal underfoot, and the fastest piece of ground in the world during Speed Week. After a thin rain it turns into a mirror that doubles the sky.

The shot

The mirror after rain — or Speed Week’s long black tracks.

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