It is particularly noted as the venue for numerous land speed records. In addition, the Pontiac Bonneville, the former flagship sedan of the Pontiac motor division, the Triumph Bonneville motorcycle, and the Bonneville International media company, are named after the salt flats.* Bonneville Speedwayīonneville Speedway is an area of the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, that is marked out for motorsports. Movies filmed at the salt flats include portions of Warlock, Independence Day, SLC Punk, Cremaster 2 from Cremaster Cycle, The Brown Bunny, The World’s Fastest Indian, Gerry, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The first land speed record was in 1914 by Teddy Tetzlaff. A railway line across the Bonneville Salt Flats was completed in 1910, marking the first permanent crossing. In 1907 Bill Rishel and two local businessmen tested the suitability of the salt for driving on by taking a Pierce-Arrow onto the surface of the flats. Army officer who explored the Intermountain West in the 1830s. The area was named after Benjamin Bonneville, a U.S. Photo: Bonneville Salt Flats _Utah Agenda It is the largest of many salt flats located west of the Great Salt Lake, is public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and is known for land speed records at the “Bonneville Speedway”.
The Utah Bonneville Salt Flats is a densely packed salt pan in northwestern Utah that is a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.
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