Southwestern Utah

Arts and Entertainment

Museums

Frontier Movie Town - Visit a collection of authentic western movie sets, salvaged from the many western films made in Kanab, "Utah's little Hollywood."

Tanner Amphitheater - A stunning 2000 seat amphitheater surrounded by the cliffs of Zion National Park. A live concert every Saturday night throughout the Summer.

Tuacahn - Tuacahn is a 1500-foot spectacular red rock cliff Amphitheatre and Center for the Arts featuring Theatrical and Musical performances.

Zion Canyon Giant Screen Theatre - Located adjacent to Zion National Park, and the beautiful Virgin River in Springdale, Utah the Theatre Center features a six-story giant screen, The Theatre Deli, Water Wind and Time bookstore, two gift shops, Toaquim's Village and Gifts Limited.

 

Events

Utah Shakespearean Festival - Founded in 1961 as a destination theatre in partnership with Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespearean Festival is committed to entertain, enrich, and educate audiences through professional rotating repertory production of Shakespeare and other master dramatists.

Visit our Utah Events Calendar for a listing of local events.

Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery - The Gallery exhibits, collects, and preserves historic and contemporary works of art significant to the interior American West. In addition the Museum hosts art exhibitions that represent the principal artistic styles and periods of world cultures.

Bryce Natural History Museum - Bryce Museum features an enormous collection of mounted animal species, a variety of animal skulls, seashells, and over 1,600 butterflies from all over the world! We also showcase a large herd of live exotic deer that can be hand fed upon request.

Southern Utah Air Museum - Offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience what its like to sit in the cockpit of some of the most famous and interesting aircraft of the last 50 years. We also have over 100 fine aviation art prints depicting dozens of aircraft.

 

Outdoor Recreation

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary -  Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, in the majestic red-rock country of southern Utah, just to the north of the Grand Canyon, is the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned companion and domestic animals.

Bryce Canyon National Park - At Bryce Canyon National Park, erosion has shaped colorful Claron lime stones, sandstones and mudstones into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles and mazes.

Zion National Park - Zion National Park offers 229 square miles of spectacular cliff-and-canyon landscape and wilderness.  Visitors can see the world's largest arch - Kolob Arch - with a span measuring 310 feet. Wildlife such as mule deer, golden eagles, and mountain lions, also inhabit the Park.

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