A large section between these two installations is still accessible though, and this is where I-80 crosses the desert. It is said to be possible to see the curvature of the Earth at the horizon.Ī large proportion of the Salt Lake Desert is used by the military Hill Air Force Base to the north and the Wendover Gunnery Range to the south, and there have been many reports of the damage done to the land by the last 40 years of weapons testing. However, a rather more spectacular sight is provided by the great expanse of salt flats, remnants of the former Lake Bonneville, that extend south and west from the lake - this huge desert is almost completely white and level for over a hundred miles in some directions. The lake is famous for its high salinity (which varies between 10 and 25%), second only to the Dead Sea of Israel, but like the Salton Sea in California, the water tends to be rather smelly and this is not in general a place for swimming or sunbathing.
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