Reply #7: The "Great" Salt Lake

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Imagine four 18-year olds driving to L.A. from Illinois. One suggests that we take a mighty detour to visit the Great Salt Lake. After all, it looked so cool in our grade school Geography books...I so well remembered the photo of a huge man floating in it with an equally huge smile on his face.

Upon arrival, instead of seeing families and fun, we saw...a hideously gray body of water, completely deserted. I mean totally void of human life, but crawling with millions upon millions of sand fleas. It also smelled somewhat like an open sewer.

The falling-apart concession stand was padlocked, and the restrooms had no running water or paper products. And by the way, this wasn't what should have been considered the "off" season - it was the middle of July.

After that place, though, I'd have to agree that the Arch in St. Louis is pretty damn disappointing as well.