Great Salt Lake

Type: Location

As of November 2026, Great Salt Lake has been mentioned in one podcast episode on American History Tellers (Dec 2024). A geographical feature near the construction route of the Transcontinental Railroad.

The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. 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. It is a remnant of Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric body of water that covered much of western Utah.