Antelope Island State Park is a Utah state park on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. The park is in Davis County, Utah in the United States. It is open for year-round recreation and features an abundant wildlife population, including one of the largest free roaming herds of American bison in the U.S. An effort to reintroduce pronghorn to the park has been a success. Other animals at the park include bighorn sheep, mule deer and a wide variety of waterfowl, wading birds and small mammals and reptiles. The park, at an elevation of , was established in 1969 when the northern portions of the island were designated as a state park. The Fielding Garr Ranch on the southern end of the island was added to the state park lands in 1981.
Sadly the ever shrinking “Great” Salt Lake is now just “The Salt Lake”. We were told Antelope Island was the best place to try to swim/float. We walked for over 1/2 mile from where the beach use to be to get to the water, it was murky, silty and gooey - you sink down several inches up to a foot each step. We walked out approx four hundred feet to find we were still in just a foot of water, not able to float b/c it just wasn’t deep enough.
Went with friends from Layton UT on a hot but windy day (kept the brine flies away). Fun to wade in and float in the salt water with lots of little brine shrimp! Nice and cool. Don’t splash, it burns the eyes ;) Outdoor free shower to rinse off or can pay to rinse in one of 6 private showers (coin operated). We used those private stalls to change. Drive around to look at different views and trying to find the 300 bison. Saw one. Still very cool!! Don’t drive in with windows down... it STINKS!!
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