Salt places to visit in the Americas
Salt museums, salt flats, a salt mine you can ride into, and a refuge where you can dig for crystals. Each guide covers what you'll see, the salt story behind it, and tips for your visit.
Salt MuseumLiverpool, New York · A free museum on the shore of Onondaga Lake that tells how salt springs built “The Salt City.”Erie Canal MuseumSyracuse, New York · Housed in the last surviving weighlock building of the Erie Canal, the canal that carried Syracuse salt to the world.Strataca: Kansas Underground Salt MuseumHutchinson, Kansas · Ride an elevator 650 feet down into a working salt mine, the only US salt mine open to tourists.Salt Plains National Wildlife RefugeNear Jet and Cherokee, Oklahoma · A shimmering salt flat where anyone can dig for crystals, and one of the most important shorebird habitats in the Western Hemisphere.Bonneville Salt FlatsNear Wendover, Utah · A vast white salt pan on public land, famous for land speed records since 1914.Great Salt LakeNorthern Utah · The largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, nicknamed “America's Dead Sea.”Badwater BasinDeath Valley National Park, California · The lowest point in North America: a salt flat 282 feet below sea level, patterned with salt polygons.Lewis and Clark Salt WorksSeaside, Oregon · The spot where the Lewis and Clark Expedition boiled seawater for salt through the winter of 1805–06.Saltville and the Museum of the Middle AppalachiansSaltville, Virginia · A small Virginia town built on salt, with a museum that runs from Ice Age mammals to Civil War salt works.Goderich: the salt mine under Lake HuronGoderich, Ontario · A Lake Huron town that went looking for oil in 1866, struck salt instead, and now sits beside one of the world's largest salt mines.Salt Plains of Wood Buffalo National ParkNear Fort Smith, Northwest Territories · More than 200 square kilometres of salt flats and salt mounds in Canada's largest national park, where Dene people gathered salt long before the fur trade and still do today.Lake Winnipegosis salt springsLake Winnipegosis, Manitoba · Salt springs on the shores of a great Manitoba lake, where Ojibway and Métis families boiled brine into salt for the Red River Settlement for most of the 1800s.Zuni Salt LakeCatron County, New Mexico · A shallow volcanic lake in the high desert, sacred to the Zuni and other Pueblo peoples as the home of Salt Mother.Salt Pans of MarasMaras, near Cusco, Peru · Some 4,500 terraced salt pools on an Andean mountainside, worked since long before the Inca and still owned by local families.Nemocón Salt MineNemocón, near Bogotá, Colombia · A Muisca salt town turned mine museum, where brine pools reflect coloured lights like mirrors.Paynes Creek: the Maya underwater salt worksToledo District, southern Belize · Maya salt kitchens and homes preserved under the sea floor, where workers boiled brine and salted fish for inland cities.Avery IslandIberia Parish, Louisiana · A green island on top of a giant salt dome, where Native Americans boiled brine long before it became the home of Tabasco sauce.Illinois Salines (Great Salt Springs)Gallatin County, Illinois · Salt springs used for over 2,000 years, first by Woodland and Mississippian peoples, later by the young state of Illinois.
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