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2 unusual facts about The Great Salt Lake


Clearfield, Utah

The Great Salt Lake is separated from Clearfield City by marshlands, mudflats and the cities in between.

Pilot Range

Lying 50 miles east of The Great Salt Lake, the range forms part of the north-west border of the Great Salt Lake Desert.



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Mormon Trail

Young reviewed information on the Great Salt Lake Valley and the Great Basin, consulted with mountain men and trappers, and met with Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, a Jesuit missionary familiar with the region.

Norman H. Bangerter

During his tenure as governor, Bangerter dealt with the flooding of the Great Salt Lake and its tributaries by approving the construction of large, US$60 million pumps to channel excess water from the Great Salt Lake onto the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Salt Lake Valley

They include the Point of the Mountain to the south via the Jordan Narrows, a gap in the Traverse Mountains, narrow entrances between the Great Salt Lake and Oquirrh Mountains to the northwest and the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains to the north, and several canyons to the east including Parley's Canyon and Emigration Canyon.