The salt flats host speed racing events when conditions allow. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) It’s thinned by roughly one-third in the last 60 years.

One person was killed after attempting a speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Sunday afternoon. The Southern ...

On Aug. 5, 1963, Craig Breedlove set land-speed records in his famed Spirit of America, clocking 407 mph at Bonneville. The record changed hands eight times in the next two-plus years, culminating ...

State of Utah Department of Natural Resources geologists Paul Inkenbrandt, left, and Jeremiah Bernau walk along the Bonneville Salt Flats on Aug. 29, 2022, near Wendover, Utah.

A work cuts salt bricks from Uyuni - the largest salt flats in the world, at the state-run Lithium Pilot Plant in Rio Grande, Bolivia, Oct. 29, 2009.

Chile’s Atacama Salt Flat is the country’s largest, spanning an area of 750,000 acres. It contains many holes and lagoons housing various species of wildlife. Among them are Andean seagulls ...

FILE - Cars form a line near the race track at the Bonneville Salt Flats near Wendover, Utah, on Aug. 13, 2016. The crust keeps tires cool at high speeds and provides an ideal surface for racing ...