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Utah is called "Crossroads of the West", the place where cities, mountains, rivers and cultures converge. Utah has five national parks: Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Capitol Reef National Park.

Utah offers outdoor adventures: skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, trout fishing and whitewater rafting. Utah’s 14 mountain resorts – including the 2002 Olympic Winter Games venues – have skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing for winter sports enthusiasts, and camping, biking and hiking for summer buffs. Hotels, motels, and ski resorts match the quality of things to see and do.

Utah’s Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway, one of America’s elite roads in terms of scenic, cultural and archeological significance, follows a trade route established a thousand years ago and used by the Anasazi tribe. It is one of seven Scenic Byways in Utah. The others are Logan Canyon, Nebo Loop, Huntington-Eccles Canyon, Flaming Gorge-Uintas, Dinosaur Diamond and Highway 12 All-American Road. 

Salt Lake City is the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle choir. In addition to its easy accessibility, Salt Lake City has established itself as a major outdoor destination in a cosmopolitan setting.

The city is within 30 minutes of the Utah Olympic Park, a professional training facility as well as a recreation destination with 389 acres of Nordic jumping, bobsled, luge, and skeleton training facilities. In Salt Lake City, the Utah Olympic Oval remains the premier speed skating facility the world. Salt Lake's world-class ski resorts – Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, and Solitude – are all within 30 minutes of a splendid array of motels, hotels and resorts. Fifteen National Parks and Monuments are within a one-day drive from Salt Lake City.

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Arches National Park 5 miles north of Moab, this park has the world’s largest concentration of natural stone arches. Over 2000 “miracles of nature’ and other unique geological resources and formations grace the 73,000 acres of the park.


Bridgerland This region encompasses Cache Valley, Logan, and turquoise-colored Bear Lake in the northeast corner of Utah. Just east of Logan is the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Logan Canyon has many geological wonders, including large rock outcroppings, vertical rock formations, caves and even wind tunnels. The famous climbing-challenge "China Wall" can be seen for 20 miles along the canyon.


Brigham City Its Mormon Box Elder Tabernacle is one of the most beautiful structures in Utah.
Utah: National Parks

Zion National Park in southwestern Utah features soaring monoliths, an interpretive center, hiking and the Virgin River still flowing through the geological masterpiece it carved.

Bryce Canyon National Park, in southwestern Utah, is a series of amphitheaters and bowls filled with massive and delicate pillars of stone eroded into bizarre shapes called hoodoos.

Near Moab, in the southeastern part of the state, is Arches National Park which has hundreds of the sandstone spans for which the park was named, including Utah icon Delicate Arch.

The dominant geological feature of southcentral Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park is the Waterpocket Fold, a massive uplift which created the huge dome-like formations that inspired the park’s name.

Canyonlands National Park, in southeastern Utah, is divided into distinct districts: The River District has stretches of the Green and Colorado Rivers; The Island in the Sky is a huge mesa with paved roads; The Needles section is named for its myriad rock spires, fins and formations. The Maze is wild and rugged.








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Near town are several interesting stops: the Morton Thiokol Space Shuttle Rocket Display, the Golden Spike National Historic Site where the U.S. was joined by rail in May 1869, and the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. BRIGHAM CITY


Bryce Canyon National Park 24 miles southeast of Panguitch, erosion has shaped the pink cliffs into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles, and mazes collectively called "hoodoos". BRYCE CANYON HOTELS


Canyonlands National Park Utah’s largest national park, this park offers a colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River and its tributaries.


Capitol Reef National Park The multi-colored cliffs common to Capitol Reef National Park and this region inspired the Indians who once lived here to name it the Land of the Sleeping Rainbow.


Cedar City 30 minutes away from Cedar City and nestled in the heart of the Dixie National Forest, Cedar Breaks National Monument is shaped like a giant coliseum resembling a miniature Bryce Canyon. CEDAR CITY HOTELS


Dinosaur National Monument Located near Vernal, this site has produced a large number of complete dinosaur skeletons, both juvenile and adult since 1909.


Flaming Gorge Flaming Gorge Lake, enclosed by brightly colored canyon walls and set amidst hundreds of thousands of acres of forested hills, makes up the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.


Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument An area in southern Utah of plateaus, sandstone canyon, unique rock formations and cliffs.


Hovenweep National Monument A collection of unique prehistoric archeological sites. Located along the border between Utah and Colorado, the monument is noted for its solitude and undeveloped, natural character.


Moab Nestled in a fertile green valley between soaring red sandstone cliffs, Moab is "Adventure Central" for river rafting, mountain biking, 4WD adventures, hiking, climbing, golfing and the gateway to Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dead Horse Point State Park. There are spectacular views from the tops of the mesas to the floors of the canyons. MOAB HOTELS


Natural Bridges National Monument Some of the finest examples of ancient stone architecture in the southwest. Where meandering streams cut through the canyon walls, three natural bridges formed: Kachina, Owahcomo and Sipapu.


Ogden Guides in period dress at Fort Buenaventura State Park interpret the fort, the lifestyle of the Mountain men and the Indians who inhabited the area. Ogden is a gateway to the Golden Spike National Historic Site where two railroads came together in 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad in the US. OGDEN HOTELS


Park City The Sundance Film festival is held every January and features the work of independent filmmakers from all over the world. PARK CITY HOTELS


Price Located just south of Price is a dinosaur hunters' paradise, Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry one of the foremost dinosaur fossil sources. With its rock art, Nine Mile Canyon has been called by some the world’s longest outdoor art gallery corridor. PRICE HOTELS


Rainbow Bridge National Monument Formed by the erosion of the sandstone by water flowing from Navajo Mountain towards the Colorado River, Rainbow Bridge is the world's largest natural bridge.

St. George Southwestern Utah’s gateway to national parks and monuments. Other attractions are The Tuacahn Center for the Arts, which dominates a redrock canyon and presents Broadway musicals, and the golf courses. SAINT GEORGE HOTELS


Salt Lake City Utah’s capital city is the world headquarters for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which is renowned for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the many-spired Mormon Temple.

Salt Lake City’s cultural scene includes the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum at the University of Utah featuring a 1500-acre botanic collection and ecology center.

South of Salt Lake City at Thanksgiving Point is a museum and a landscaped collection of theme gardens, ponds, lakes and waterfall in a 55-acre natural amphitheater.

West of Salt Lake City is Great Salt Lake, one of the nation's largest lakes. Bonneville Salt Flats, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist there, stretches over 30,000 acres. Fifteen National Parks and Monuments are within a one-day drive from Salt Lake – 12 in Utah. SALT LAKE CITY HOTELS



Ski Utah Utah’s 14 mountain resorts – including the 2002 Olympic Winter Games venues – have skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing for winter sports enthusiasts, and camping, biking and hiking for summer buffs.


Timpanogos Cave National Monument Sitting high in the Wasatch Mountains, this cave system consists of three spectacularly decorated caverns.


Utah Valley Nestled at the base of the Majestic Wasatch Range of the Rockies just 40 minutes south of Salt Lake International Airport is Utah County - known regionally as Utah Valley and for the twin cities of Provo and Orem. OREM HOTELS


Zion National Park Protected within Zion National Park is a spectacular cliff-and-canyon landscape and wilderness full of the unexpected including the world's largest arch. Wildlife such as mule deer, golden eagles, and mountain lions also inhabit the Park.

Photo courtesy Utah Office of Tourism. Photographer: Frank Jensen

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