Bonneville Salt Flats

We stayed here one night just passing through to California. Nothing weird or bad smells but we did find a lot of spent gun sells 45s and 38s from some one target practicing. Many places to camp.

We had a really weird experience here. We followed the road up that goes along and into the mountains past the initial small parking area. We found a gorgeous spot and started to set up camp when we both started to feel ill. We thought it may be heat exhaustion from our few hours of driving in 95 degree heat without AC or possibly alt... more

Beautiful views of mountains and the salt flats. The nearest person is 2 miles driving down I-80.

A great place to stay. Not very level though. The late afternoon and evenings were quite windy.

(Video at https://youtu.be/hEsT7Ztalmg) My buddy Todd and I ventured out across the Salt Flats from Salt Lake City on a late October weekend. After arriving at the camping area described by others here, and finding two other RVs already in the ara, we ventured slightly further up the Silver Island Mountains Scenic Byway to camp at 4... more

This place makes for a good stop-over point along I-80. It's easy to access, has great cell phone service, and beautiful dark skies. Follow the directions from previous reviewers to get to the BLM camping area. We recommend looking for spots where others have camped rather than venturing off to explore new territory as the salt fla... more

Very nice spot to camp, we were just driving through and needed a spot for the night. We're on our way to KOA camp site near by but glad we stopped here.. it was a great experience with friendly wild life close by. Stars were super bright and we bought fire wood right down the road at the gas station.. kids were able to explore around... more

I had initially planned to see if I could get away with parking out on the flats in the parking area at the end of the paved road. As sunset approached, however, the 11 million bugs that swarmed drove me out towards higher ground. This was a good choice. I saw a couple folks out near the base of the mountains which looked great, but fo... more

Perfectly described by nomad before. Thanks a lot for that! Made us check it out. Found the spot in the middle of the open space. Awesome, and had the place completely to ourselves on Sunday evening in June. When taking a morning run, we saw people camping (with big rigs!) further up the road closer to the mountains. Take the dirt road... more

This is a nice place to camp near the Bonneville Salt Flats. It is on a slope just west of the salt flats, as they approach the mountains of Wendover. It is just wide open space with a BLM bulletin board showing the map of what is BLM and what is state land. When you get off the highway you pass the Sinclair gas station (with really... more