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The park is located at an elevation of 4,200 feet (1,300 m), on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, 16 miles (26 km) west of Salt Lake City. [ 1 ] Park facilities
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 .
Antelope Island State Park is surrounded by the Great Salt Lake. The lake is the last remaining part of a vast inland Pleistocene sea, Lake Bonneville. At more than 1,000 feet (305 m) deep [28] and more than 19,691 square miles (51,000 km 2) [29] in area, the lake was nearly as large as Lake Michigan and significantly deeper. [30]
The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and a surplus in the state budget can save the it.
In forty years, the Great Salt Lake has lost two-thirds of its surface area, a victim of an agricultural sector and a mining industry that consumes too much water, and of global warming which ...
Gunnison Island is located in the northwest quadrant of the Great Salt Lake in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, approximately 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Salt Lake City and about 6 miles (9.7 km) east from the lake's western shore, and is best known as an important rookery for the American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos).
The Great Salt Plains Lake is located at the park and covers 9,300 acres (38 km 2) with 41 miles (66 km) of shoreline and is a shallow, salty lake with fishing opportunities for catfish, saugeye, sandbass and hybrid striper. The average depth is reportedly 4 feet (1.2 m) and the impoundment capacity is 31,420 acre-feet.
Great Salt Lake State Park: Salt Lake: 162 acres (66 ha) [8] 4,200 ft (1280 m) 1978 396,911 Maintains a public boat launch and 320-slip marina on the Great Salt Lake. Green River State Park: Emery: 53 acres (21 ha) 4,050 ft (1234 m) 1965 56,828 Features a shady campground, nine-hole golf course, and float trip launching on the Green River ...