Antelope Island State Park

We visited Antelope Island which is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake. Antelope Island (AI) is 15 miles long and 4.5 miles wide. The oldest rocks on AI are some of the oldest found anywhere on earth, older than the rocks found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. We saw a rock that was dated 7.5 billion years. I would have taken a picture, but Vince said no one would be able to see the difference from the rocks in your own backyard. Anyway, Antelope Island is something to see if you’re ever in Utah.

Soph-Soph

Daddy and Sophie walking in an area once submerged by the Great Salt Lake

Buffalo Point

Bison Relaxing

Never seen a sign like this one before

Sophie

Bison are the island’s most famous residents.

Walking amongst western ranching living.

Sophie on play horse

Daddy and Sophie

The first permanent residence on the island in 1848; 
Utah’s oldest Anglo-built structure still standing on its existing foudation.

12 animals were introduced to the island in 1893.  
Today’s herd now has 500 - 700.

Another free-roaming bison