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The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere [1] and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. [2] It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah and has a substantial impact upon the local climate , particularly through lake-effect snow .
Great Salt Lake: Utah: 950 sq mi 2,460 km 2: natural salt [4] 9 Lake Oahe: North Dakota–South Dakota: 685 sq mi 1,774 km 2: man-made [5] 10 Lake Okeechobee: Florida: 662 sq mi 1,715 km 2: natural [6] 11 Lake Pontchartrain: Louisiana: 631 sq mi 1,634 km 2: natural brackish [7] 12 Lake Sakakawea: North Dakota: 520 sq mi 1,347 km 2: man-made 13 ...
Nelson Peak is located 19 miles (31 km) southwest of Salt Lake City and seven miles (11 km) northeast of Tooele in the Oquirrh Mountains which are part of the Great Basin Ranges. It is the highest point in the northern Oquirrh Mountains. [5] Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains to the nearby Great Salt Lake. [4]
The range runs from northwestern Utah County–central & eastern Tooele County, to the south shore of the Great Salt Lake. The highest elevation is Flat Top Mountain at 10,620 ft (3,237 m). The name Oquirrh was taken from the Goshute word meaning "wood sitting." [2]
Cobb Peak is set in the Great Salt Lake Desert which has hot summers and cold winters. [7] The desert is an example of a cold desert climate as the desert's elevation makes temperatures cooler than lower elevation deserts. Due to the high elevation and aridity, temperatures drop sharply after sunset. Summer nights are comfortably cool.
The Promontory Mountains are a block fault range typical of the Basin and Range Province.The west side of the range is bounded by the East Great Salt Lake normal fault which passes under the lake along the west side of Antelope Island and on to the south shore of the lake to the west side of the Oquirrh Mountains where it continues on strike as the Oquirrh Fault.
Antelope Island, with an area of 42 square miles (109 km 2), is the largest of ten islands located within the Great Salt Lake in Utah.The island lies in the southeastern portion of the lake, near Salt Lake City and Davis County, and becomes a peninsula when the lake is at extremely low levels.
National Park Service map of Golden Spike National Historical Park. The Golden Spike National Historical Park encompasses 2,735 acres (1,107 ha). Initially just 7 acres (2.8 ha) when it was established in 1957, limited to the area near the junction of the two rail systems, the site was expanded by 2,176 acres (881 ha) in 1965 through land swaps and acquisition of approximately a strip of land ...