As we were late getting into Salt Lake City last night, we didn’t see much of anything as we drove in. Before heading south today, we backtracked a few miles and visited the Great Salt Lake, accessible just on the outskirts of the city. The scenery was quite striking however we did discover one thing – the lake smells really really bad!! The lake has a very high concentration of salt (even more than the Red Sea on one end) and other minerals – apparently that includes sulfur. The entire area smelled like rotten eggs – not pleasant. We were surprised to find a lovely little boat marina on the lake shore, where we stopped to take a few of these photos.

Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah

Fremont Island on Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake Shoreline, Salt Lake City

Great Salt Lake Marina

Leaving Salt Lake - Mountains Surrounding the City

Snow-capped peaks outside Salt Lake City

Utah Highway Landscape