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Utah Day 6: Stansbury Island

2 June 2022 • 195 km / 121 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 7 June 2022
  • Utah 19

We took this evening to satisfy a curiousity about Stansbury Island, which is not entirely an island any more due to lower lake levels.

What it is is a very remote place towards the west side of Great Salt Lake. Some parts of the island are public (accessible via a lonely gravel road), but much of the island is private property, used (mostly?) for mining.

We enjoyed what we could see from the road:

by Lisa Rozmyn
A wide, calm expanse of pale, shallow water reflecting a partly cloudy sky, with a long low mountain range rising along the horizon under a broad blue sky streaked with clouds.
A shallow, calm expanse of the Great Salt Lake with a faint pinkish tint reflects a cloudy sky, its rocky shoreline scattered with pale stones and salt crust in the foreground. Barren brown hills and low mountains rise along the left shore beneath a broad, overcast sky.
A calm, glassy stretch of the Great Salt Lake reflects a dramatic sky of layered blue and gray clouds, with a low mountain range along the horizon and a row of weathered wooden fence posts and wires standing in the shallow water and salty flats in the foreground.

Salt Lake City to Stansbury Island, Utah, and back · 195 km / 121 mi
(Mouse over or tap on the markers to see the photos there. Use the button to adjust the map’s position and zoom.)

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