Great Salt Lake Desert

The Great Salt Lake Desert (colloquially referred to as the West Desert) is a large dry lake in northern Utah, United States, between the Great Salt Lake and the Nevada border. It is a subregion of the larger Great Basin Desert, and noted for white evaporite Lake Bonneville salt deposits including the Bonneville Salt Flats.

This article is about the North American desert. For the desert in Iran, see Dasht-e Kavir.
Great Salt Lake Desert
The desert's white salt is depicted in Utah's northwest.
Area4,000 sq mi (10,000 km2)
Geography
CountryUnited States
StateUtah
County
Borders onCedar Mountains, Silver Island,
Hogup, Newfoundland Mountains,
& Lakeside Range

West (NV): Pilot Range.
Coordinates40.67°N 113.67°W / 40.67; -113.67 
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