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PHOTOS: Touring Great Salt Lake's unique graveyard of junk near Stansbury Island


"Graveyard" of junk and abandoned buses, large pipes, and heavy machinery and equipment as seen on Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Photo: Robin Pendergrast)
"Graveyard" of junk and abandoned buses, large pipes, and heavy machinery and equipment as seen on Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Photo: Robin Pendergrast)
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STANSBURY ISLAND, Utah (KUTV) — Abandoned buses. Rusty old pieces of heavy equipment. Giant metal pipes and more. Those are just some of the massive pieces of junk that lay on a dry Great Salt Lake bed next to Stansbury Island.

Photographer Robin Pendergrast took a photographic tour of what he says is a self-described junk "graveyard."

Pendergrast described what he saw just to the west of Stansbury Island, saying:

Saturday, windy, but a perfect day to visit a gem in the Utah world. [It was] quiet, clean, [there were] a few cattle and babies hanging around and the usual folks taking target practice. Wait a minute. Hidden away to the west on dry Great Salt Lake waterbeds is a massive inventory of 'stuff"... huge stuff. It appears that the Stansbury Island 'graveyard' has been created with active deposits and 'stuff.' No signs, no sheds, no people ( just us ) and a bizarre collection including two compressed buses. No fencing but just a big splash of land self designated as the 'graveyard." and off to the center, [there were] two HUGE cylinders with fins just waiting."

You can take a photo tour of the graveyard in our gallery above or by clicking here.

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