The eighth largest saline lake in the world is a Utah icon. More than 10 million birds take sanctuary there every year.

The 1950s and ’60s brought out the excesses of post-war revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

Its salt-encrusted shores circle about 340 square miles of sea. A silo-full of conspiracy theories features the Salton Sea: The military may have accidentally dropped a real bomb that did not explode.

Like the Great Salt Lake, the Salton Sea is a terminal lake, which means that the water and salts it contains have nowhere else to go. As the sea shrinks, the salt becomes more concentrated ...

The 1950s and ’60s brought out the excesses of postwar revelers to the Salton Sea. You can see the salt-encrusted remains of former resorts and second homes of the Los Angeles fancy people.

Bombay Beach is pictured by the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea in Calif., on Dec. 11, 2023. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News) Snowbirds flocked to Bombay during the winter months.

The Salton Sea dried up thousands of years ago. It was reborn in the early 1900s when the Colorado River washed out a section of bank and poured water into the low-lying area, which is about 227 ...

Still, the sea persists. Its salt-encrusted shores circle about 340 square miles of sea. A silo-full of conspiracy theories features the Salton Sea: The military may have accidentally dropped a real ...

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