The Bonneville Shoreline Trail follows the actual shore of huge Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric lake. Here is an explanation from Wikipedia: Lake Bonneville:
Shorelines of Lake Bonneville are visible above Salt Lake City along the western front of the Wasatch Mountains and on other mountains throughout the Bonneville basin. These shorelines appear as shelves or benches that protrude from the mountainside above the valley floor, are visible on the ground from long distances and on satellite images, and have both depositional and erosional segments along their lengths. Three shorelines of Lake Bonneville that can be traced throughout the basin, have been given names: Stansbury, Bonneville, and Provo.
This segment of the trail starts at the mouth of Rock Canyon in Provo, Utah travels north and south for a total of about 305 miles. We usually walk the segments just a few miles north and south from Rock Canyon.
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