Bonneville Speedway

[PurdueGuy]

This weekend, my wife & I had planned a trip to Yellowstone, but the weather turned crappy. So last minute we picked out a destination to the south for better weather, and went to the Great Basin National Park. Beautiful hiking & caves, good times. Drove partway home yesterday & spent the night at Windover, and soon learned it's on the edge of the Utah Salt Flats. This morning we popped by the Bonneville Speedway, where all the racing happens on the salt flats. I didn't know what to expect, but I figured there would be at least some kind of dragstrip-esque buildings. Nope, nothing. No one was out racing either, unfortunately, but there were some folks a good mile or two out on the salt setting up for some kind of concert. Took a drive on the flats in my wife's SC1 that we happened to be driving. Once on the salt, it was kind of a "why the heck not", so I took it up to 90. It's an interesting feeling, and I may have to stop by again with a car that's a bit (or a lot) more capable.

BTW, living out west rocks. (Grew up in Indiana.)

[balthazar]

It'd be a real blast to take something over the salt one time.

[ocnblu]

A blast to the undercarriage, perhaps?

Very cool, Perdue!

[Camino LS6]

It has a spot on my life list.