{"id":147378,"date":"2010-01-06T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"1047 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-01-06T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:19:15","slug":"the-spiral-jetty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/147378","title":{"rendered":"The Spiral Jetty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/utah\/salt-lake-county\">Salt Lake County<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/utah\">Utah<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/outsider-architecture\">Outsider Architecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spiral Jetty is built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, and dirt. It was built in 1970 by Robert Smithson and is 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide jutting out into the Great Salt Lake. However no one saw his work for over 30 years. Built during a drought, once the water levels returned to normal the spiral was submerged for three decades only emerging during a drought in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>The black basalt rock are now mostly covered with white salt encrustation and the water has a pink hue to it. The jetty disappears if the lake level is higher than 4,197 feet and currently the jetty is again in danger of disappearing altogether. There is a plan to restore the jetty, but not everyone agrees. The sculptor, who died in a plane crash only three years after completing the jetty, expressed a love of entropy and the eroding powers of nature. It is likely Smithson would have been very happy with the jetty&#8217;s  constant disappearing act and changing appearance. <\/p>\n<p>October and November are typically the lowest levels of the lake annually, but if there is a heavy snow pack the previous year, the jetty may stay submerged all year. As the drought comes to an end the jetty may once again disappear, this time never to re-emerge. <\/p>\n<p>More on the general Salt Lake area: http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/places\/antelope-island-great-salt-lake<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/Spiraljetty_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake County, Utah | Outsider Architecture The Spiral Jetty is built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, and dirt. It was built in 1970 by Robert Smithson and is 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide jutting out into the Great Salt Lake. However no one saw his work for over 30 years. Built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}