Massive salt pyramids stand tall against the blue sky, while pink-hued salt flats stretch out in every direction. It almost feels otherworldly — like you’ve stepped onto another planet.

But in “modern times,” the lake remnants became what is now known as Great Salt Lake, the one by Salt Lake City, and the Bonneville Salt Flats a hundred miles west of that.

Bonneville Speedway is on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, offering an extremely flat and firm surface for racing at ...

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A vibrant blue canal of potash, used to extract valuable minerals from rich brines coursing through them extends into the Bonneville Salt Flats ...

The Salt Flats, an ancient and usually dried-up lake about 1½ hours from El Paso, is drawing throngs of people since it swelled with the recent rainfall. Normally, the basin gets little attention ...

The history of the salt flats and the surrounding area dates back to nearly 14,000 years ago when Lake Bonneville, the then largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North ...

Since then, Butterworth has photographed many places one might consider mundane, even ugly. For his project Blue Fields, he captured ordinary salt flats while touring Australia.

Andrew Evans explores Bolivia’s vast salt flats. I can’t think of a worse torture than coming to Bolivia for the first time and then having to rush across the country in under a week. It’s ...