Shrinking Great Salt Lake

The level of Great Salt Lake is dropping toward the historic low, set in 1963 at
4,191.3 feet in 1963. As a result the lake is shrinking, exposing hundreds of square
miles of lake bed and elevating salinity levels.
Lake-level elevations

Potential meander line of

4,218 feet above sea level*
4,200-foot historical average
4,191-foot record low in 1963

PRO

MO

BRIGHAM
CITY

NTO

OUNTA
RY M

Gunnison Bay

INS

G R E A T

Bear River Bay

89

OGDEN

S A LT
84

Gilbert Bay

5
MILES

STAN

ND
E ISLA

ELOP

Detail

ANT

L A K E

LAYTON
15

Farmington
Bay

SBUR

ND
Y ISLA

80

*Meander refers to potential water rise in a weather-related or geologic event

80

SALT
LAKE
CITY

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