Great Salt Lake (GSL) is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere, the fourth-largest terminal lake in the world. The elevation of Great Salt Lake has critical effect on the people who live nearby and their properties. It is crucial to build an exact model of GSL elevation time series in order to predict the GSL elevation precisely. Although some models, such as FARIMA or ARFIMA (Auto-Regressive Fractional Integral and Moving Average), GARCH (Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) and FIGARCH (Fractional Integral Generalized Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity), have been built to characterize the variation of Great Salt Lake elevation, these models can not characterize it perfectly. Therefore, it became a key point to build a more appropriate model of GSL elevation time series. In this paper a new model based on fractional autoregressive integrated moving average (ARFIMA) with Stable innovations is applied to analyze the data and predict the future levels. From the analysis we can see that the new model can characterize GSL elevation time series more accurately. The new model will be beneficial to predict GSL elevation more precisely.