Imagine a perfectly flat layer of pure white salt stretching to the horizon in every direction. This surreal landscape exists in only a few places on Earth and is known as a salt flat, the remnant of an ancient inland sea. Located in western Utah along Interstate 80 near the border with Nevada, the famous Bonneville Salt Flats cover about 40 square miles of perfectly flat terrain. Visitors often describe the experience as surreal. The hard salt surface can resemble a frozen l