Hogle Zoo

Saltair

We were back in Salt Lake on Monday evening for Lance's week long training. During the week we visited this neat place called Saltair. Originally built in the late 1800's as a day resort, Saltair was the most-visited resort in the nation, 2nd to Coney Island. It was destroyed by fire, then rebuilt to boast the largest dance floor in the United States. A second fire took it to the ground again, but investors, mostly prominent LDS leaders, continued to rebuild - this time including an amusement park. Many believed Saltair just wasn't meant to be when it caught fire for the third time! The remains sat vacant for many years until the 1980's when it was rebuilt with a water park. The Great Salt Lake has risen and receded many times in the past century, and just a couple years after completion, the water park flooded. Saltair is now used as a music venue. We enjoyed going through the old building and seeing all the old photos time lining its' history. There once was a train that carried visitors out to the resort, which sat on over 2000 log stilts, and today one of the boxcars from that train is still there. Many people still visit the area to swim and sail from the marina just a mile down the road.