In the Utah desert, a treeless expanse of pristine white salt crystals has long lured daredevil speed racers, filmmakers and social media-obsessed tourists. It's so flat that on certain days ...

Wendover • Out of the interminable white plain of the Bonneville Salt Flats springs a cerulean blue ... silky ribbon through the monotony of the stark, dry desert. It’s an enchanted passage ...

Not long ago, while walking up a gravel road in Bears Ears National Monument, my eye was distracted by a flash of brilliant, ...

There's an out-of-this-world reason that The Mars Society chose Utah's Purple Hills for its almost-hidden Mars research facility. More formally known as the Bentonite Hills, this mountainous ...

DUGWAY — A small capsule landed just before 3 p.m. in Utah's west desert near Wendover on Wednesday ... and civilian air traffic, and "a flat recovery area, free from hills or terrain features ...

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WENDOVER, UtahWENDOVER, Utah — In the Utah desert, a treeless expanse of pristine white salt crystals has long lured daredevil speed racers, filmmakers and social media-obsessed tourists.