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| Spiral Jetty [41 26 16N, 112 40 08W] |
Nancy Holt, creator of the Sun Tunnels, was married to an earthworks artist, Robert Smithson. Not far from the location of the Sun Tunnels, Smithson created an earthwork called the Spiral Jetty in 1970 along the north shore of the Great Salt Lake. I've never made it out there, but it would be an amusing side trip if visiting the Golden Spike area again. Turns out that Smithson died at age 35 in a plane crash while surveying a site for an earthwork to be called Amarillo Ramp. His wife implemented his design for Amarillo Ramp at a small, private lake northwest of Amarillo, Texas. Like many bodies of water in the Texas panhandle, the lake disappears during times of drought. But Amarillo Ramp is still visible 39 years after it was built.
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| Amarillo Ramp [35 22 31N, 102 01 48W] |
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