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Temple Square   Salt Lake City

Temple Square, Salt Lake City

 35 Reviews  Surrounding the Salt Lake Temple is 10-acre Temple Square which houses the temple along with the Mormon Tabernacle, the Assembly, and beautiful gardens. The temple was completed in 1893 after 40 years... 

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Arch viewing by car   Arches National Park

Arch viewing by car, Arches National Park

 2 Reviews  There is an 18 mile long auto route with several stops along the way, some of which have very nice viewpoints. Although many of the views involve little or no walking, some hiking is required to... 

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Great Salt Lake   Salt Lake City

Great Salt Lake, Salt Lake City

 15 Reviews  Many people think that the Smell they experience when visiting the Great Salt Lake, especially at the South end of the lake at the Marina, is due to the salt water and brine shrimp. I have been... 

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Antelope Island SP   Salt Lake City

Antelope Island SP, Salt Lake City

 10 Reviews  My family and I live right next to the causeway for Antelope Island. I love this location to live because it is surrounded by farms and lovely fields! Just last week my brother and I went to the... 

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Winter Olympics 2002   Salt Lake City

Winter Olympics 2002, Salt Lake City

 21 Reviews  I finally took the time to visit this small little memorial to a fantastic 17 Olympic days. In the winter of 2002, a short 5 months after the shock of the September 11 attacks the world turned its... 

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Mormon Tabernacle   Salt Lake City

Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City

 6 Reviews  Brigham Young may have been the force behind the Church of Latter Day Saints and its prophet but today, its most visible incarnation is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This 360 member choir was deemed... 

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Family History Library   Salt Lake City

Family History Library, Salt Lake City

 8 Reviews  The Family History library has been helping people search out their ancestors since 1894. Since 1985 it has been in this location just west of Temple Square. It is said to be the largest single... 

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State Capitol   Salt Lake City

State Capitol, Salt Lake City

 8 Reviews  This is a beautiful capitol building. Located on what is now known as Capitol Hill it can be seen from most places in the city. It has recently undergone extensive renovations designed to make it... 

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Beehive House   Salt Lake City

Beehive House, Salt Lake City

 4 Reviews  The Beehive house has been preserved, restored and provides a great look at the way the most important man in the Territory of Utah lived. It is a wonderfully simple design, call it frontier grand.... 

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Winter Sports   Salt Lake City

Winter Sports, Salt Lake City

 10 Reviews  My hat goes off to the folks at All Seasons Rentals in Utah. First off, the snowmobile I rented was just awesome! I had no idea the power and the area a snowmobile could cover in just a day. To top it... 

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City Sites   Salt Lake City

City Sites, Salt Lake City

 5 Reviews  Built in 1909 it serviced the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City Railroad and the Oregon Short Line Railroad. It served the Salt Lake City's railroad transportation center well into the 1970s.... 

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'This Is The Place' SP   Salt Lake City

'This Is The Place' SP, Salt Lake City

 6 Reviews  The park, which used to consist of the monument and visitor's center, continues to grow and develop. There are now several other statues commemorating different events and people influential in the... 

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Park City   Salt Lake City

Park City, Salt Lake City

 6 Reviews  Just 10 miles east of Orem Utah is beautiful Sundance. Hidden 2 miles up in the mountains this tiny town was the original location for the yearly Sundance Film Festival. Though Sundance still holds up... 

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Temple LDS   Salt Lake City

Temple LDS, Salt Lake City

 14 Reviews  It should come with little surprise that Brigham Young marked the location for the Salt Lake Temple a few days after arriving in the valley forty-six years before it was completed. The man, after all,... 

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Architectural Details   Salt Lake City

Architectural Details, Salt Lake City

 10 Reviews  This is one of most loveliest victorian buildings I have seen. It most definitely catches your eye while in route to The Gateway mall. The Devereaux House was considered as one the most lavish and &... 

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National Parks   Salt Lake City

National Parks, Salt Lake City

 3 Reviews  The Timpanogos National Park is a mere 1/2 hour outside of Salt Lake City. This national park I had no idea existed before arriving, I sure as anything want everyone to know about it since. In the... 

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Tabernacle Choir   Salt Lake City

Tabernacle Choir, Salt Lake City

 6 Reviews  Every Sunday morning, at 0930, you can view a live broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The broadcast goes out live, or taped delay, all over the world. They ask that you be in your seats by... 

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Cottonwood Canyons   Salt Lake City

Cottonwood Canyons, Salt Lake City

 4 Reviews  The Cottonwood Canyons (Big and Small) They are not far town (30-40 minutes maximum to the entrance), yet they provide a great escape from the city’s problems, winter inversions, summer heat. In the... 

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Outside Town   Salt Lake City

Outside Town, Salt Lake City

 5 Reviews   Utah Fun Dome This enormous family entertainment complex was voted best of Utah two years in a row. Whether you it is Bungee jumping, bowling, playing golf, riding race cars, playing video games or... 

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Hike/Climb   Salt Lake City

Hike/Climb, Salt Lake City

 6 Reviews  Deseret Peak is about 30 miles west of Salt Lake City. It is a moutain of 11,031 feet in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. It's a great half-day moutain climbing trip away from Salt Lake City. After... 

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The view   Salt Lake City

The view, Salt Lake City

 4 Reviews  Check out the view of the city, surrounding mountains, and the Great Salt Lake at sunset. This photo was taken from above Capital Hill. We drove past the right side of the capital and continued up.... 

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Trolley Square   Salt Lake City

Trolley Square, Salt Lake City

 2 Reviews  Trolley Square is just a commercialized modification of something that was once great. It's full of chain fashion stores and chain restaurants. It's now a shopping mall, but it was once where the... 

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Church Office Building   Salt Lake City

Church Office Building, Salt Lake City

 3 Reviews  Finished around 1972 and built to consolidate all the various scattered office workers who kept the LDS church running, this building has dominated the skyline since it first reached taller than all... 

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Joseph Smith Blg.   Salt Lake City

Joseph Smith Blg., Salt Lake City

 5 Reviews  The Hotel Utah was the finest hotel between Denver and San Francisco from 1911 to the early 80's. Everyone who was anyone stayed here when they came to Salt Lake. With white gloved porters, fine... 

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Indoor Sports   Salt Lake City

Indoor Sports, Salt Lake City

 3 Reviews  Watch a sporting event at the Delta Center. The National Basketball Association Utah Jazz and the International Hockey League Golden Eagles are the home teams. Seats for the most important games are... 

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International Balloon Festival

by emw.weaver

If you are visiting Utah in January, you might want to check out the annual International Balloon Festival in Bluff, Utah. Bluff sits right at the southeastern corner of Utah right next to the Valley of the Gods. Sounds important?! Because it is. To get to Bluff you can go through the switchbacks of the overwhelming Valley of the Gods. Once you enter Bluff you have a sky full of hot air balloons of all colors and themes. The experience is amazing and once the balloons ground mid-day you have not only the valley to see, but also Goosenecks State Park and the Natural Bridges National Monument you can visit within a few minutes of each other.

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Golden Spike National Historic Site

by Jim_Eliason

This is the point at which the first rail line across the US from east to west came together in May 1869. The site is literally still in the middle of nowhere ( aobtu 1 1/2 North of Salt Lake City). At the site are replicas of the two trains that met and the sirte where the spike was laid.

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Arches National Park

by AcornMan

No trip to Utah would be complete without a trip to Arches National Park. From outside the park you'd never guess there's anything unique up there. But after just a short ascent after entering you'll be amazed by the landscape and of course the arches that dot the landscape.

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Bryce Canyon National Park - Don't miss it!

by AcornMan

People come from all over the world to visit Bryce Canyon National Park, and after you see it for yourself you'll understand why. There is truly no other place on earth like it. For more information have a look at my VT page:http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/71f79/d7676/

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Great Salt Lake

by Segolily

There are so many things to see and do on and around the Great Salt Lake. For the brave you can boat (too salty), or float (too salty and too many brineshrimp). You can walk and walk and walk through its waters trying to get deep enough to try to float. You can hike Stansbury and Antelope Islands. Antelope Island State Park also has biking, and kayak rentals, buffalo roundups, and an old farm with tours and wagon rides, You can visit world renowned landscape art at the Spiral Jetty. Bird watching at Farmington Bay and Bear River Bird Refuge usually offers avocets and Wilson's Phalarope, swifts, eagles and more. Saltair resort hosts concerts from new and off-beat bands. I know I should have an entry for each of these, but right now I'm just thinking overview. I have a love/ ignore kind of relationship with the lake... I love it, but it is so easy to ignore. Yet there is no more beautiful...

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Zion National Park - Checkerboard Mesa

by Ewingjr98

In Zion National Park, which if full of unique landforms, Checkerboard Mesa is the most famous on the east side of the park. This area features stone with horizontal and vertical lines, forming a very rare checkerboard pattern.

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Newspaper Rock Recreation Area

by windsorgirl

En route to Moab, we stopped briefly at Newspaper Rock to have a look at the ancient petroglyphs left by the Puebloan people hundreds of years ago.The sandstone cliff is covered with images of horses with riders, animal pelts, paw prints and human feet with six toes. The engravings were very well preserved and easy to view, it was fascinating to see and well worth the detour, I thought. There is also a primitive campground here amongst the large cottonwood trees.If you continue west past this site, you will soon arrive at The Needles District of Canyonlands NP.

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Zion National Park – biking the canyon

by vtveen

As ‘Dutchies’ we always are trying to include a bike trip during our holidays. For Zion National Park – where we stayed only 1 night – we decided exploring Zion Canyon by bike. We started from the shop of Zion Cycles in the centre of Springdale towards the Visitor Center of Zion NP. Here starts the Pa’rus Trail, a combined paved hike and bike trail along the Virgin River, this is a nice and (almost) level part of the trip, crossing some creeks before reaching Canyon Junction. Here we took the Scenic Drive into Zion Canyon and were pedalling between high red and pink coloured mountains with the lush green valley of the Virgin River at the bottom of the valley to our left. We loved the views of this beautiful landscape and even saw some wildlife along the road. At Zion Lodge we had our first stop for a drink. We passed impressive places like Weeping Rock and Big Bend before reaching the...

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Zion NP in Spring

by imamtngirl

April is my fav time to go to Zion NP. Summers are to freakin hot!!! April is coolish at night but really nice in the day. We love the hikes and I seriously do not know how people do them in the summer when it's ridiculously hot. There is a chance that it will rain but we only ever had it storm on us once and we've been there a few times in April. I highly recommend the hikes. There are 4-5 shortish easy ones that won't take up all your time. The Riverside Walk at the end of the Scenic Road is beautiful. It gives you a taste of the hiking Narrows without actually going into the river. The Emerald Pools trail is also an easy one and is beautiful. I recommend lunch at the Park Lodge. If you are interested in an amazing hike that takes you to the top of the world you should really go on the Angels Landing hike. It's tougher and if you have a fear of heights parts of it will make your...

Bonneville Salt Flats

by Segolily

When the giant prehistoric Lake Bonneville began disappearing the salt content of the water became concentrated in the north end. Eventually all that was left was the Great Salt Lake. But in the flat land to the west of the lake the salt had nowhere to go and so it stayed behind. Miles and miles of white crystalline sodium cloride. In the winter the land may soak in water, but come the hot, hot days of summer and the water evaporates and again the salt flats are left behind. It is then the the cars show up, hoping to test themselves to see just how fast they can go. The flat and barren land is perfect for speed.

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Top 3 Hotels in Utah

Grand America Hotel  Salt Lake City

 2 Reviews and 271 Opinions  This is the nicest hotel in the city located in Temple Square amid all the attractions. 

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Best Western Bryce Canyon Grand  Bryce Canyon National Park

 3 Reviews and 640 Opinions  It's more like a motel that a hotel but it's nice and it's the best place to stay in vicinity of the... 

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Devil's Garden Campground  Arches National Park

 8 Reviews and 19 Opinions  The only campground inside the park is the Devil's Garden Campground which offers 52 sites and... 

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Things to Do: Cities in Utah
  1. Salt Lake City Things to Do
  2. Monument Valley State Park Things to Do
  3. Park City Things to Do
  4. Zion National Park Things to Do
  5. Bryce Canyon National Park Things to Do
  6. Moab Things to Do
  7. Arches National Park Things to Do
  8. Saint George Things to Do
  9. Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument Things to Do
  10. Canyonlands National Park Things to Do
  11. Kanab Things to Do
  12. Capitol Reef National Park Things to Do
  13. Springdale Things to Do
  14. Snow Canyon State Park Things to Do
  15. Vernal Things to Do
  16. Logan Things to Do
  17. Cedar City Things to Do
  18. Goblin Valley State Park Things to Do
  19. Kodachrome Basin State Park Things to Do
  20. Snowbird Things to Do
  21. Mexican Hat Things to Do
  22. Natural Bridges National Monument Things to Do
  23. Wendover Things to Do
  24. Alta Things to Do
  25. Orem Things to Do
  26. Ogden Things to Do
  27. Provo Things to Do
  28. Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Things to Do
  29. Green River Things to Do
  30. Midvale Things to Do
  31. Torrey Things to Do
  32. Antelope Island Things to Do
  33. Goosenecks State Park Things to Do
  34. Escalante Things to Do
  35. Garden City Things to Do
  36. Cedar Breaks National Monument Things to Do
  37. Dead Horse Point State Park Things to Do
  38. Dinosaur National Monument Things to Do
  39. Tropic Things to Do
  40. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area Things to Do
  41. Horseshoe Canyon Unit- Canyonlands National Park Things to Do
  42. Bluff Things to Do
  43. Morgan Things to Do
  44. American Fork Things to Do
  45. Beaver Things to Do
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  49. Monticello Things to Do
  50. Eden Things to Do
  51. Hovenweep National Monument Things to Do
  52. Mount Pleasant Things to Do
  53. Bryce Canyon Things to Do
  54. Hanksville Things to Do
  55. Thompson Springs Things to Do
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