Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the prehistoric Lake Bonneville that covered the Great Basin in the Western United States. It is a vast body of water saltier than the ocean, an inland sea of great beauty, tranquility and fierceness.

Dim and pale, the moon, the ghost of a dead world, lifted above the distant Wasatch peaks and stared at the acrid waters of a dead sea.
-Alfred Lambourne, Our Inland Sea, 1887

We do not know the nature of this vast body of water that sparkles and sings.
-Terry Tempest Williams, 2014