Bonneville Salt Flats: Automotive heaven

We found a place where the automobile is king and speed is the one true god. It’s a piece of land shaped roughly like a frying pan—flat and hot—bordered by mountains, and crusted in fine white granules of salt. To get there, drive west for about an hour and a half from Salt Lake City, Utah on the I-80 towards Reno. Drive past the vast pools of sulfur, where there’s no escaping the smell of rotten eggs. Take exit No.4 and keep going until the road ends. You’ll feel a bump as the wheels of your car dr