Bonneville Salt FlatsBonneville Salt Flats is located in the north western region of Utah and is spread across 412 square kilometers within the desert of Great Salt Lake. It is one of the largest salt flats of the Great Salt Lake. In some regions of the flats the depth has been noted about 1.8 meters. It is now public land and is being managed by the Bureau of Land Management. These salts flats are natural illustration of contrast.
In 1907 the area and salt was examined by two businessman and Rishel to find out whether it is suitable for driving and not. Then these salt flats were opened for the use as speedway in 1914 with the trial run of Teddy Tetzlaff. Ab Jenkins was the person who used to race in 1927 against train stretch between Wendover and Salt Lake City. Now, the salt flats are very famous and used as the Bonneville Speedway for the car racing of high speed, which are mostly held in august of each year. The race USFRA's World of Speed held in every September and World Finals held in every October. There is another meet called as BUB Meet, which held between the World of Speed and Speed Week. Except racing the Bonneville salt area is used for film shutting. Some movies including SLC Punk, The Brown Bunny, Warlock, Independence Day, At World's End, Cremaster Cycle, The World's Fastest Indian, Gerry, Pirates of the Caribbean and many more.
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The name Bonneville to this area was giving after Benjamin Bonneville an Army officer of US who discovered this area. In the beginning, the flats were known for speed testing ground. Bill Rishel was using this area for testing who cycled the area in 1896 to win a competition, which was run by the newspaper William Randolph Hearst.