"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference".
-Robert Frost-
The Great Salt Lake is what's remaining of Lake Bonneville. At it's peak, the Lake Bonneville covered a land mass equal to one quarter of the entire size of the State of Utah. It reached from South East Idaho down to where the Little Sahara Sand Dunes in Central Utah are located. All of Salt Lake County, up to the entrance of Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons was submersed in the lakes water.