"You can get various levels of pink depending if you're up on a hill looking down at the lake or on the shore," said David Parrott, the assistant director of the Great Salt Lake Institute.

The Great Salt Lake offers incredible spots for scenic photography or a therapeutic retreat, where you can feel weightless as you float. While many of the world's most spectacular pink lakes are ...

Utah’s phenomenal, record-breaking winter has already given the Great Salt Lake a boost ... salt-loving microorganisms that turn the water pink. A large colony of pelicans nest on Gunnison ...

Its shores are home to bizarre pink-hued waters ... The speed at which the Great Salt Lake is vanishing is nothing short of astonishing. Since the mid-1980s, the lake has lost nearly two-thirds ...

give the lake and its salt crust a distinctive pink hue. This tinge commonly occurs in highly salty bodies of water around the world, said Bonnie Baxter, who directs the Great Salt Institute at ...

The Great Salt Lake’s North Arm, separated from freshwater instream flows by a railroad causeway, radiates a bright pink from microorganisms that survive high salinity. Credit: Courtesy of ...

While the Great Salt Lake’s decline is recent—in 20 years ... It is unsettlingly two-toned: a murky pink to the north, green-blue to the south. A 12-mile railroad track slices the lake ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A pink phone booth has been showing up around Salt Lake City, encouraging callers to leave a message of hope for the Great Salt Lake. The interactive art pop-up is called the ...

As the Great Salt Lake edged toward the brink of ecological collapse in recent years, Utah’s resource managers found sealing off its railroad causeway was one of the quickest and cheapest ways ...

At Antelope Island State Park near Salt Lake City in the fall of 2022, three duck hunters dragged a sled across cracked desert sand in search of the water’s edge. The birds they sought were ...

Ms. Williams is a writer who lives in Utah and grew up near the Great Salt Lake. Mr. Sheikh is an artist engaged in a long-term project on environmental damage in the Southwest. March 25 ...