Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, the 1,500-foot-long coil of basalt rock on the northeast edge of the Great Salt Lake, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (1970), Great Salt Lake, Utah, 2019 (photo by Victoria Sambunaris) ...

Spiral Jetty remains Smithson’s best-known work. Over the years, it has drawn attention to the Great Salt Lake’s natural features, like its otherworldly pink color and ever-shifting water level.

Robert Smithson’s groundbreaking land artwork Spiral Jetty (1970) has at last entered America’s National Register of Historic Places, joining the the likes of Ocmulgee Mounds National ...

Completed in 1970 on the shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson is a masterpiece of land art that feels both eternal and ever-changing.

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Smithson’s best-known project was “Spiral Jetty,” completed in April 1970, an immense coil made of 6,650 tons of black basalt rock and earth jutting into the shallows of the Great Salt Lake ...

Spiral Jetty remains Smithson’s best-known work. Over the years, it has drawn attention to the Great Salt Lake’s natural features, like its otherworldly pink color and ever-shifting water level.

Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork Spiral Jetty has been added to the National Park Service’s Register of Historic Places. Regarded as one of the most significant land art works in the world ...

Created in 1970 by sculptor Robert Smithson near Rozel Point on the northeast side of the lake, the Spiral Jetty is made of basalt rock and mud. The 1,500-foot coil can only be seen when the water ...