Great Salt Lake Tour

2-hour guided tour to Great Salt Lake

Explore Great Salt Lake with a professional guide. Visit America’s largest lake west of the Mississippi River and the saltiest lake in the western hemisphere. Enjoy a guided tour from downtown Salt Lake City to the shores of this “Dead Sea” with full narration by an expert local guide.

LENGTH:  2 hours

TIME: 2:30 PM

LOCATION: Departs from Radisson Downtown Hotel (215 W South Temple, Salt Lake City)

PARKING: available for a fee at a public lot across the street, $5-10

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Swimming is optional, bring a towel and change of clothes. Most visitors opt to simply dip their feet in the water.

GREAT SALT LAKE STATE PARK

Explore America's Dead Sea at the Great Salt Lake State Park Marina, home to "The World's Saltiest Sailors!" Walk the shores of Silver Sands Beach, full of soft, pearl-like oolitic sand similar to the Bahamas. Gaze out across the Great Salt Lake at the observation deck built for the 2002 Winter Olympics, with spectacular views of the surrounding Rocky Mountains. Your tour guide will help you catch the only creature that can live in this salty lake, the amazing Sea Monkey! 

HISTORIC SALTAIR RESORT

Hear the charming tales of "The Coney Island of the West" as you stop at the mysterious remains of an historic beach resort. Saltair was an amusement park built by the Mormon Church in 1893 and quickly become one of the busiest amusement parks in the West. Its mysterious Moorish architectural style looked like a mirage in the desert. Your expert tour guide will tell its unbelievable tales in a historical presentation in front of the resort, with time for photos. 

MIGRATORY BIRD WETLANDS

Travel through Utah's most important wetland habitat, a resting place for several million migratory birds of over 250 variety each year. Spot antelope and coyote roaming the open plains of the Salt Lake Desert on your way to Great Salt Lake.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED