Utah Lake
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The largest natural "fresh" water lake in the west, Utah Lake is
absolutely worthless from a scuba point of view. (Unless maybe somebody dropped a suitcase
of money in the lake and you're feeling your way across the bottom to find it.) The lake's
shallow, silty bottom makes the visibility zero 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year. Typical depth is about 8 feet; water is a milky gray-green. We list the lake here so web surfers from other states won't think we forgot the big blue spot on the map labeled "Utah Lake." Picture: Shoreline of Utah Lake near the American Fork Boat
Harbor. |
| There's reasonable water skiing when the wind's calm. At the state park in
Provo there's a swimming beach, but most of the lake's shoreline is mud and swamp (north,
east, and south), or sage brush and rocks (west side). Picture: Bruce Argyle at Utah Lake, taken by his wife. |
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Fishing for catfish and bass is fair in the spring. But for most of the year, Utah Lake isn't a fishing lake either. |
