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 UTAH'S ENDURING FAVORITES With thousands of places to go, things to see and activities waiting for visitors to discover, it’s difficult to name Utah’s most popular attractions. UTAH HOTELS But there are some perpetual favorites which are often the springboard to other visitor adventures. Salt Lake City’s Temple Square and surrounding attractions include a state-of-the-art Conference Center and the world’s largest genealogical library. The Joseph Smith Memorial Building that serves as a community gathering place features a knowledgeably staffed Family History Center and large-screen theater showing films related to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) history and religious concepts. SALT LAKE CITY HOTELS  The Museum of Church History and Art houses historic displays as well as works of modern L.D.S. artists from around the world, and two visitor centers interpret L.D.S. history and faith. 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. South-central Utah’s Glen Canyon National Recreation Area houses world famous Lake Powell, which backs up for more than 186 miles behind the dam which formed it. Nearly 2,000 miles of serpentine shoreline with hundreds of side canyons, inlets and coves await exploration. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, in the northeastern portion of the state, features 207,363 acres of land and water popular for fishing, hiking, mountain biking, wildlife watching and access to the neighboring Ashley National Forest. Bryce Canyon National Park, situated in southwestern Utah, is a series of amphitheaters and bowls filled with massive and delicate pillars of stone eroded into bizarre shapes called hoodoos. Visitors may hike or drive to viewpoints on the canyon’s rim or hike down into the bowls for a truly surreal experience. Wasatch Mountain State Park, in northern Utah’s Heber Valley, has two excellent 36-hole golf courses. Winter activities include cross-country skiing, tubing and snowshoeing. 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. Combined, the park has more than 2,000 significant eroded formations. A 40-mile scenic drive provides access to hiking and stunning viewpoints. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in south-central Utah, is divided into three areas: the canyons of the Escalante River, the Grand Staircase and the Kaiparowits Plateau. The monument is a vast and rugged region. The dominant geological feature of south-central 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. Historic features make this park unique, from evidence of the ancient Fremont Culture to orchards planted by settlers in the mid-1800s, which are still maintained by the park service and harvested by visitors in season. Cedar Breaks National Monument is surrounded by Dixie National Forest in the southwestern area of the state. Similar to Bryce Canyon, this monument is an amphitheater on the western edge of the Markagunt Plateau filled with pillars, columns and hoodoos which are particularly vivid because they are concentrated in a small area surrounded by verdant meadows and forest. At the mouth of Emigration Canyon on the eastern edge of the Salt Lake Valley lies This Is The Place Heritage Park. The park features Old Deseret Village, a living history museum that recreates a typical Mormon community in the mid-1800s. Also in the park is This is the Place Monument, erected in 1947 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first Mormon settlers in the valley. Canyonlands National Park, in southeastern Utah, is divided into distinct districts: The River (both lazy and wild), Island in the Sky (a huge mesa with paved roads and scenic overlooks), The Needles (named for its myriad rock spires, fins and formations) and The Maze (wild and rugged). The area can only be accessed by hiking or mountain bike trails, on the Colorado River or via limited fourwheel-drive trails. Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park straddles the border of southeastern Utah and Arizona. Goulding’s Trading Post and Museum recreates life in the 1920s and documents the starring roles of Monument Valley’s formations in movies and television through several decades. Northeastern Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument Quarry shelters more than 2,000 dinosaur bones exposed in a 200-foot-long sandstone wall. Over 350 million tons of fossils, including full skeletons and previously unknown dinosaur species, now reside in museums all over the world. Snow Canyon State Park, outside St. George in southwestern Utah, is best known for its enjoyable hiking through acres of vibrant red Navajo sandstone capped by an overlay of black lava rock. Antelope Island State Park is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake. Accessed by a seven-mile causeway across the lake, the park offers the most stunning views available of the Wasatch Mountain range. The island is also home to free-roaming bison, bighorn sheep, deer, pronghorn antelope and many varieties of shore and wading birds. UTAH HOTELS Photo courtesy Utah Office of Tourism. Photographer: Frank Jensen |
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