Oscar Mayer

Has anyone ever peppered you into believing that the Great Salt Lake isn’t even salty? Someone recently tried to fool me with this FAKE FUN FACT, but I knew better because as Hotdoggers, we know the most about FUN FACTS. Just to be sure, Picklin’ Pat and I visited the Great Salt Lake one afternoon to solve this mystery and bring you as many FUN FACTS as you can handle in one blog post. Before I lake it on thick, let’s season this blog with some photos.

RELSHME enjoying the view

"Prodding Pat" and a buffalo for a close-up

That rock is not as comfortable as "Shotbun"

"A" is for Angle (or Patrick might say Artsy)

FUN FACT: The Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the Western Hemisphere, 37th largest lake on Earth.

FUN FACT: The reason the Great Salt Lake is salty is because it has no outlets, except for evaporation.

FUN FACT: The three rivers that contribute to the lake (The Jordan, Weber, and Bear) deposit around 1.1 million tons of minerals per year. (Since only the water is evaporating and not the minerals, the concentration of minerals continually increases, making this Northern Utah State landmark extra salty.)

FUN  FACT: The Great Salt Lake is saltier than sea water.

FUN FACT: Because of all of this salt, the water has a higher density than usual and so, most people can easily float in the lake. (No, we didn’t try to float the Wienermobile.)