It is a six days event that starts on Saturday and ends on the next Friday. The most popular and most visited event is Speed Week. These annual races are hosted by the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association and include the SCTA/BNI Speed Week in August, the World of Speed in September, and the SCTA/BNI World Finals in October. Specifically designed vehicles come here to test the possible speed limits and human endurance. Nowadays three land speed racing events attract participants from all over the world. But it gained real popularity only in the 1930s. We were able to take photos for about 45 minutes before it got super windy and salt started blowing everywhere.This terrain was first used for speed races in 1912 and the first record in land speed was set here in 1914. The kids had a blast running around on the salt, and the car’s tires and bottom got a good dose of salt on it (car wash was needed the next day). The only landmark that really helped you out was the faint mountains on one side. The location that we went to was off the Bonneville Speedway and pretty much the landscape is salt, hard crunchy salt! As you start driving, all you see in the horizon and all around you is SALT, it was SURREAL. We hadn’t done an official family photo this year and what better place than a the Utah Salt Flats! We went on a Sunday evening around 6PM on a cloudy hot day in July. I only had about a week to get everything ready, but of course we said YES! We’ve lived in Utah now for 3+ years and still hadn’t visited the iconic location so it was we thought it would be a neat opportunity to go and to get some family photos done. A few weeks ago, Eileen of Buena Lane Photography (San Francisco based photographer) was stopping through Utah and had asked me and my family if we wanted to take some photos at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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