The first racing may have taken place as early as 1914. Ab Jenkins set records on the flats in the 1930s in a car called The Mormon Meteor.Successive racers came over the decades and set their own ...

Meeting the drivers racing across the salt flats at Bonneville Speed Week. Featuring: Stacie B London, Ali and JD Youngblood, Mixed Nuts Racing, John Stoner, Jim Mosher and Mitsuhiro Kiyonaga.

The salt flats have also thinned by about a third over the last 60 years. Scientists believe its decline could be drought-related, due to industrial and human activity, nature’s natural course ...

The Bonneville Salt Flats is a completely flat field of salt over 30,000 acres, definitely unlike any track you've ever seen. Passing Salt Lake City and then the Great Salt Lake, ...

The famed Bonneville Salt Flats are deteriorating an an accelerating pace, which has led preservationists to find solutions to save the famous high speed racing venue.

A 1997 U.S. Geological Survey report estimated the Bonneville Salt Flats had lost than 55 million tons of salt from its crust between 1960 and 1988, with the maximum salt-crust thickness dwindling ...

Steve Griffin / The Salt Lake Tribune A sign warns drivers not to drive on the mud at the end of the road at Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway Monday January 2, 2017.

The effort to save the Bonneville Salt Flats has gained initial support with the State of Utah when it ranked our "Restore Bonneville" program 4 out of 28 for funding through its Fiscal Year 2020 ...

In this Wednesday, July 22, 2015 photo, a couple walks on the Bonneville Salt Flats, in Utah. A small city of tents, trailers and thousands of visitors appears almost every August in the Utah ...

Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center recently traveled to Utah's western deserts in search of joyous motoring. He took a bicycle ride on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, where speed enthusiasts ...

After nearly two years of researching on the Bonneville Salt Flats, University of Utah geologist Brenda Bowen says she’s increasingly convinced that the ecosystem is more sensitive to human ...