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I would guess they’re over a mile out, but the eye isn’t adjusted to gauging distance in a level land and even when Carl walks ahead for a minute he looks impossible to reach. Fellow flat visitors are dwarfed by the landscape and look like ants I could crush beneath my thumb. In the distance I can make out small dots framed by the surrounding hills. Starting off at 300 mph with a Royce Royce equipped with a supercharged aero engine, turbojets and rockets have since exceeded 600 mph, flying into the record books. Since 1935, seventeen land speed world records have been broken at the Salt Flats. The earth is pushing the element between small crevices, causing cracks to bubble up like white scars. Head to the Bonneville Flats, and patterns of salt scale the ground. Sitting quietly on our kitchen counters and dining room tables each day, this is the real hero of the plate. People will shell out top dollar for the farm to table experience and will read a biography on the life of the cow they’re consuming or will listen intently while you tell them the amount of rain their asparagus saw during its growth, but we neglect the humble salt shaker.

Immediately upon seeing this I had a newfound understanding of a product I use every single day. She towered over mounds of salt, salt stacks tall enough to drown an elephant in. When that yellow dress came into view it was worn by a Godzilla sized tween painted onto building facade. On the way we passed salt mine after salt mine, including the actual Morton Salt facility. You will already have seen the Great Salt Lake at this point, shallow and still, reflecting low and distant hills and a whole lot of sky. There’s no entrance - along 80 West there’s a small pull-off, then voila! You’re there.

Where no vegetation grows and the horizon line is the curve of the earth.Īt the Bonneville Salt Flats there’s nothing to “do” but it’s worth the 1.5 hour drive from Salt Lake City to the land where the earth and sky are a stark contrast of white on blue. There is a place so flat and so barren that land speed records are shattered on its grounds where you can go 600 mph in a turbojet propelled vehicle.