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Salt Lake City, Utah
Amid the towering mountains of the Wasatch Front, Salt Lake City offers beautiful scenery and world-class sporting opportunities. As the capital city of Utah, as well as a business city and leisure destination, Salt Lake City sees a multitude of visitors and is an ideal place to spend with the family in a pleasant atmosphere.
Salt Lake City's greatest outdoor venue continues to be the Wasatch Mountains which offer some of the best skiing in the world. Travelers once overlooked this serenely beautiful historic city, but this is no longer true. The whole world seems to be coming to Salt Lake City, and the city and it's people are ready.
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 Wasatch Mountains
(435) 654-1791
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750 Snake Creek Road
Sundance, Utah 84049
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Stretching across Utah from the Bear River in the north to Mount Nebo near Nephi in the central part of the state, the Wasatch Mountains, the western range of the Rocky Mountains, are the product of 20 million years of geologic faulting, volcanic activity, and glaciation. The mountains provide an impressive backdrop and recreational escape for city dwellers. Resorts here offer hiking, biking, arts festivals and concerts in summer, and skiing in winter.
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Park City
(435) 649-8111
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1310 Lowell Avenue
Park City, UT 84060
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Long before Park City became a world class mountain resort, it was famous as a silver mining town, and boasts a lively and colorful past. The Park City area now has three world class resorts: Park City Mountain Resort, Deer Valley Resort, and the Canyons Resort. The historic Main Street has a museum, galleries, shops, and restaurants.
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Hogle Zoo
(801) 582-1631
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2600 East Sunnyside Avenue
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
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Each year, some 700,000 guests pass through the gates of this 42 acre Zoo which features an animal collection comprised of over 1,100 specimens representing 250 species. And don't miss out on the train ride! The train loops around the east end of the Zoo and past a few of the Zoo's residents all of which can be seen up close from the train.
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Temple Square
(800) 537-9703
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50 West North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
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Temple Square is Salt Lake's biggest attraction and one of the major tour sites of the West. The temple's foundation walls are 16 feet thick and 16 feet deep. The walls that rise from the foundation are nine feet thick at the base tapering to six feet at the top. The temple's highest spire, reaching 210 feet, is topped by a 12-1/2 foot statue of the Angel Moroni made of hammered copper thickly overlaid with gold leaf.
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Great Salt Lake
(801) 250-1898
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7200 West Lake Point, (I-80 Exit 111)
Salt Lake City, UT 84074
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The Great Salt Lake is the largest U.S. lake west of the Mississippi River and is the 4th largest terminal lake (no outlet) in the world. It is about 75 miles long, 28 miles wide, covers 1,700 square miles and is typically 3 to 5 times saltier than the ocean.
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Photo credit: Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau
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