Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah is known for the Waterpocket Fold, a nearly 100-mile long geological wrinkle in the earth’s crust that creates dramatic cliffs, canyons, domes, and natural bridges.
Goblin Valley State Park in Utah is famous for its unique landscape filled with thousands of mushroom-shaped sandstone formations called hoodoos or goblins that create an otherworldly, maze-like playground.
Utah Olympic Park, located near Park City, Utah, was built for the 2002 Winter Olympics and served as the venue for ski jumping, bobsled, luge, and skeleton events.
Sand Hollow State Park is a large, popular Utah state park located near the town of Hurricane in Washington County, about 15 miles east of St. George and roughly 297 miles south of Salt Lake City.
The Bonneville Salt Flats in northwestern Utah are a vast, flat expanse of densely packed salt covering about 12 miles long and 5 miles wide, formed as a remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville from the last Ice Age.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often referred to as the Mormon Church, was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in western New York during a time of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.
The Church History Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Snow Canyon State Park in Utah spans 7,400 acres within the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and features a stunning desert landscape with colorful Navajo sandstone cliffs, lava flows, and sand dunes.
Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah is the state's largest national park, covering over 527 square miles of rugged landscape shaped by the Colorado and Green Rivers and their tributaries.
Bear Lake State Park is a Utah state park located along the western shore of Bear Lake on the Utah–Idaho border, about an hour north of Logan and roughly 145 miles northeast of Salt Lake City.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah covers nearly 1.9 million acres of rugged wilderness known for its dramatic geological formations, including colorful layered cliffs that rise in a grand stair-step pattern across the landscape.
Wasatch Mountain State Park is a large Utah state park located near the town of Midway in the Wasatch Back, about 50 miles east and south of Salt Lake City at an elevation of roughly 5,900 feet.
The Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, is one of the world's largest dinosaur museums featuring over 60 dinosaur skeletons and more than 50 interactive exhibits.
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Escalante, Utah, spans 1,350 acres around Wide Hollow Reservoir, showcasing brilliantly colored petrified wood from trees buried 135-155 million years ago in ancient floods, now exposed on a high mesa amid lava flows and juniper forests.
