Utah Lake Monster
I began thinking about the old tales of the Utah Lake Monster while traveling through the Salt Lake City area in May 2021 . Utah Lake and the Great Salt Lake to the north are both remnants of ancient Lake Bonneville. Lake Bonneville was formed roughly 32,000 years ago and lasted until about 14,000 years ago. According to Wikipedia: Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America. The Western Interior Seaway preceded Lake Bonneville. Lake Bonneville was a pluvial lake that formed in response to an increase in precipitation and a decrease in evaporation as a result of cooler temperatures. Lake Bonneville covered much of what is now western Utah and at its highest level extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. Many other hydrographically closed basins in the Great Basin contained expanded lakes during the Late Pleistocene, including Lake Lahontan in northwestern Nevada. Utah Lake is shallow with the maximum depth of its waters on...
