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Alpine Art Center - 450 South Alpine Highway, Alpine, UT 84004. (801) 763-7173. The Peppermint Place - Candy factory offering tours and samples. Great place for kids. 119 E. 200 North, (800) 377-4368. Alta Alta Community Enrichment - Alta Community Enrichment is a volunteer organization that creates opportunities in the community for individual and group participation in arts, cultural events and education. Bountiful Bountiful-Davis Art Center - BDAC is the premiere community-supported foundation and gathering place for the fostering of quality artistic expression and education. Farmington Lagoon - Located just 15 minutes north of Salt Lake, Lagoon is a fun-filled family theme park. Lagoon offers incredible rides and attractions including Lagoon-A-Beach, Pioneer Village, a sky ride and picnic areas. Logan Utah Festival Opera - The four-week festival includes three productions of grand opera, operetta, light opera, and/or seldom-seen Broadway-style musical theater. Logan Ava Art Center - 43 South Main Street, (435) 797-0163. Ellen Eccles Theatre - The Ellen Eccles Theatre has become the center of artistic activity in Cache Valley. Many premier artists and Broadway productions have brought unique performances and diverse cultural enrichment to the extended Cache Valley. Repertory Theatre - Logan, (435) 797-1657. Ogden Peery's Egyptian Theatre - Peery's Egyptian Theater is designed to accommodate live theater, dance, music, symphonic and multimedia performances as well as film. Eccles Community Art Center - The Eccles Community Art Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to a continued effort to stimulate interest, foster awareness, and provide education in all visual and performing arts. Park City Kimball Art Center - Kimball Art Center offers four sessions of art classes for adults and children, in addition to producing the Park City Art Festival. 638 Park Ave., Park City, (435) 649-8882. Provo/Orem Hale Center Theater Orem - Hale Center Theater offers live theater performances including a variety of musicals and comedies. Harris Fine Arts Center - Music, dance and theatre performances located within the BYU campus. Salt Lake City Visit our Salt Lake City Page Sundance Resort Sundance Summer Theatre - Situated to offer a backdrop of mountains and old growth pines, and an integral part of the Sundance Institute since the 1980's, the Sundance Theatre has showcased both classic and modern performances. Sundance Children's Theater - (801) 225-4107. West Jordan Gardner Village - Gardner Village contains the outlines of the once bustling early Utah mill industry and history. What remains today is a cluster of specialty shops located in restored cabins, houses and buildings. Vintage pioneer architecture, antique fixtures, red brick paths and bridges over a pond.
Days of '47 Pioneer Day Celebration - This state holiday and its accompanying activities commemorate the arrival of Utah's first Mormon Pioneers to the Salt Lake Basin on July 24, 1847. While events are scheduled all over the state throughout the month of July, the biggest celebrations are held in the Salt Lake Area.
Salt Lake County Fair - Held at the Salt Lake County Equestrian Park and Event Center in South Jordan, festivities include demolition derbys, live entertainment, horse Shows, 4-H exhibits and demos, children's activities, and much more! Sundance Film Festival - An exhibition of work that showcases the best of independent cinema. Utah Arts Festival - The Utah Arts Festival offers incredible visual, performing and language arts. Visitors can enjoy regional art, music, dance, entertainment and great food. The festival is held every year during the month of June. Utah State Fair - Encompassing a spacious 65-acres, the fair is Utah's largest single event, attracts more than 300,000 fairgoers. Utah Winter Games - The Utah Winter Games supports the development of all athletes, regardless of age or ability, by providing first-rate instructional clinics and competitive events. All Utah Winter Games activities are designed to offer a fun and affordable experience where all participants may share in the thrill and excitement of winter sports.
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Brigham City Museum Gallery - Exquisite artworks and dynamic pioneer objects are on view at this 3,300-square-foot facility which opened in May 1970. 24 N. 300 West, (435) 723-6769. Fairview Fairview Museum of History & Art - Beautiful displays of Avard T. Fairbanks sculptures, Native American art and more. 85 North 100 East. Lehi John Hutchings Museum of Natural History - This unique museum has its origins in its inquisitive founder, John Hutchings, whose lifelong interests included geology, art, Western history, and anthropology. Logan The Discovery Museum - The Discovery Museum is a small hands-on science center on the campus of Utah State University. There are about 18 interactive and hands-on exhibits that demonstrate a variety of science and engineering principles. 4120 Old Main Hill. (435) 797-0723. Ogden Hill Aerospace Museum - The Hill Aerospace Museum collection currently includes a wide variety of military aircraft and missiles, assorted munitions and weapons, ground vehicles associated with aircraft/missiles, and thousands of other historical artifacts. Union Station - Historic Union Station is the site of 4 public museums, large and small meeting rooms, a restaurant, visitors center, model train shop, and satellite police station. Treehouse Children's Museum - An interactive museum themed around language, literacy and children's books. Park City Alf Engen Ski Museum - Components of the Museum include a virtual "ski theater" ,an interactive, enhanced topo map of the Wasatch Mountains and an exhibit, showcasing the many changes in ski technology and fashion. The museum also features many displays on the sport of ski jumping. Park City Museum - The Museum features a dozen exhibits and a museum gift shop. 528 Main, Park City, (435) 645-5135. Provo/Orem McCurdy Historical Doll Museum - 246 N. 100 East, Provo, (801) 377-9935. BYU Museum of Art - The Museum of Art is a place where the heart and mind are brought together to seek knowledge and values, self-affirmation and spiritual understanding. BYU Earth Science Museum - Brigham Young University is home to one of the world's best Jurassic dinosaur bone collections. The Earth Science Museum displays a small part of that collection. Featured are two fully mounted skeletons of Camptosaurus and Allosaurus, a mural of the Utah-Colorado region in the Jurassic period, a 150-million-year old dinosaur egg, and a preparation lab window showing museum personnel preparing fossils. Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum - The purpose of the Life Science Museum is to document biological natural history. The Museum provides an opportunity to see nature from areas of the world that the average person cannot see. The three-story museum hosts more than 100,000 visitors each year and houses over two million specimens. Museum of Peoples and Cultures - The Museum of Peoples and Cultures is a museum of archaeology and ethnology with strengths in native cultures and artifacts of the Great Basin, American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Peru, and Polynesia. It houses more than 40,000 artifacts and 50,000 slides and photographs that document BYU archaeological research and artifactual materials. Salt Lake City Visit our Salt Lake City Page Springville Springville Museum of Art - The Springville Museum of Art is Utah's oldest and most beautiful museum for the visual fine arts. For over ninety years it has served as a major resource available to the residents and schools of Utah as well as out of state visitors. Brigham City Crystal Hot Springs - Nestled at the feet of the Wasatch Mountains, Crystal Hot Springs is a natural wonder. It is one of two locations in the world that has both a natural cold and hot spring, both less than 50 feet apart. Crystal Hot Springs has been a favorite spot for campers and swimmers for many years. Many travel long distances to soak in the mineral pools that are fed by the natural hot and cold springs. Heber Historic Heber Valley Railroad - The Heber Valley Railroad is Utah's magnificent steam passenger railroad. It's an historic tourist attraction based in Heber City, Utah. Soldier Hollow - Soldier Hollow in Wasatch Mountain State Park hosted 23 events during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. With Mt. Timpanogos as a spectacular backdrop, Soldier Hollow offers year-round recreational opportunities in mountain biking, hiking, camping, snow-shoeing, biathlon and cross-country skiing. Kaysville Cherry Hill Recreation Park - Camping, water park, miniature golf, and batting cages. 1325 South Main St. (801) 451-5379. Lehi Thanksgiving Point - Gardens, petting zoos, restaurants, golf course and flower gardens. (801) 768-4940. Logan Hardware Ranch - Sleigh rides to view wintering elk. (435) 753-6206. R.V. Jensen Living Historical Farm - Visitors to the farm can leave the present behind as they experience a real working farm with horse-drawn equipment, home cooking on a wood burning stove or a vigorous game of farm ball. Visitors are invited to milk a cow, gather the eggs, or just enjoy the variety of farm animals. Willow Park - Small zoo featuring over 600 animals. 419 W 700 South, (801) 752-3060. Magna Kennecott Copper Mine - World's Largest man-made excavation. The visitors center historic photographs, interactive exhibits, and three-dimensional models that provide an educational and entertaining experience for people of all ages. Ogden Fielding Garr Ranch House - Ogden, (801) 773-2941. George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park - The Dinosaur Park lets you wander through the Dinosaur Age and imagine the Earth when it was inhabited by the fierce predator Tyrannosaurus rex or the gazelle-like Dryosaurus. See life-size replicas of the creatures that lived two hundred million years ago. Ogden Nature Center - The Ogden Nature Center is a nature education center and 127 acre wildlife sanctuary. Open all year, the Centeršs trails are a great place for winter walks, springtime bird watching, summer picnics and autumn colors in the fall. Park City Utah Olympic Park - The 389-acre Park is a unique setting as the Olympic site for nordic jumping and the sliding sports of bobsled, luge and skeleton. Visitors are treated to a guided tour of the park, athlete training sessions, bobsled rides in summer and winter, an Olympic photo gallery, an interactive museum, freestyle aerial and ski jumping shows on summer weekends and a variety of camps. Park City Silver Mine - Take a tour 1,500 feet underground and discover the area's mining history. (435) 649-8011. Provo/Orem Hale Center Theater Orem - Hale Center Theater offers live theater performances including a variety of musicals and comedies. Seven Peaks Water Park - The place where families play! Seven Peaks is Utah's Largest Waterpark with over 25 Heated Water Attractions including Cave-In, The Lazy River, Shotgun Falls and Tyke's Peak. Tooele Historic Benson Grist Mill - Now more than 150 years old, the mill was hailed as the most significant structural landmark between Salt Lake City and Reno, Nevada when it was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1972. North of Stansbury Park on state route 138, (801) 882-7678. |
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