Utah Lake

Uh, [clears throat] Lake Bonneville existed until about 16,800 years ago when a large portion of the lake was released through the Red Rock Pass in Idaho resulting in cataclysmic floods.

With the warmer climate, the remaining lake began to dry, leaving the Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake, Sevier Lake, and Rush Lake behind.

But it don't say why it's...

I'm assuming it's on a salt dome.

So the army ended up not harming the property.

They marched through where they were in Salt Lake and went out down 30 miles south near Utah Lake.

Even during the years that when the army was sitting in Utah, the architect's office was busy planning the shape of all these stones they would need for the temple.

Then the American Civil War starts in 1861, and the army heads back out east.

But first, the three things you need to know to start your day.

A data center proposed near Spanish Fort Canyon is moving across town closer to Utah Lake in hopes of alleviating residents' concerns.

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So this week's second story takes us to Utah in the United States.

Nutty Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, roughly 55 miles south of Salt Lake City.

The cave attracted amateur and professional cavers alike.

despite or perhaps because of its narrow passageways, but access to the cave was closed in 2009 for reasons that will soon become clear.

So I'll be running kind of on frontage roads for the most part.

And then when I pass through Utah County, so just north of Utah Lake, I'll be heading out west on kind of the side secondary highways.

So I have to avoid I-15 because you're not allowed to run alongside an interstate.

but other than that i'm picking my way through highway 6 and highway 89 and 257 and just kind of picking my way all the way down south of the state again trying to follow the same route that the previous uh record holders have followed um pretty much no variation there's a couple little variations that i'm making that do not make if anything they make my job a little bit harder but they make it a little bit safer so i'm not running across a freeway or anything um but uh yeah

the highway.

Okay.

um and then i'm basically running down through there to the west of logan all the way down to uh brigham city and then hanging out on highway 89 basically all the way south running that frontage road and a couple other paths through ogden and then down in the salt lake city i'll be running pretty much on state street in salt lake city all the way south uh straight from the capital and then uh And like I said, then I'll be tucking into Highway 6 once I get south of Utah Lake and then following that highway to the west of I-15 until I get to Cedar City.

And then I'll pretty much cross over or cross under the I-15 at Cedar City and then be running along like front end roads and ranch roads from there on the east side of the highway, pretty much running right alongside it just on side roads until I get to St. George.

Understanding not everyone can do that, I would recommend a website that is really simple to remember.

It's utahlake.gov. Now, this is a website for the Utah Lake, but they've – I don't know if they did this on purpose, but in their education section, they've actually posted a link to some amazing resources for all Utah Lake and water – lake bodies of water and reservoir water levels.

Another way to get to this information more directly, although – You'll see more raw data.

So it's less easy to understand unless you jump into the interactive map.