About Salt Lake City

Natural History Museum of Utah, founded in 1969, is a fantastic museum detailing the natural history of the state of Utah.   If you want to visit fascinating historical, natural, and cultural attractions within the city, this museum is one of your best choices.  Nestled in the foothills above Salt Lake City, the Museum’s home—the Rio Tinto Center—is an architectural wonder that houses 163,000 square feet of breathtaking exhibitions exploring billions of years of natural history.

Twelve permanent exhibitions, explore billions of years of Utah’s incredible natural history.  Exhibitions include Native Voices, featuring indigenous peoples’ cultures and natural history, Past Worlds, taking you millions of years into the past to the time of dinosaurs. Utah is one of the world’s richest areas for dinosaur-fossil discovery, and the museum’s impressive exhibits of skeletal giant reptiles from the past make it a must-stop.  First Peoples, The story of Great Basin’s prehistoric peoples is told while putting visitors in the shoes of archaeologists who use science to interpret the past.

The Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week and remains open until 9 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Liberty Park is the oldest and second-largest public park in Salt Lake City with 80-acre.  Mulberry, cottonwood, and other trees make this one of the shadiest parks in the city. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Isaac Chase Mill (the oldest commercial building still standing in Utah) on the park grounds. Near the mill, you’ll find the Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts, where traditional artists from diverse Utah communities share crafts, dance, and music.

The park is also home to the Tracy Aviary, a bird sanctuary, home to over 300 birds from around the world, including many that are endangered or extinct in the wild. Enjoy interactive bird shows, keeper demonstrations, roaming animal encounters, and over a dozen nature play opportunities while you explore 8 acres of themed exhibits and botanical gardens.

Weekly drum circles, summer farmers’ markets, and the Seven Canyons fountain and splash pad, modeled after the canyons that flow into the Salt Lake valley from the Wasatch mountains are other attractions Libetrty park has to offer.

It is a spacious city park with walking/running paths, swimming pool, tennis courts, paddle boats, children’s amusement park, playground, picnic facilities, and plenty of room for recreation or relaxation.

Located in downtown Salt Lake City, Temple Square is one of the most famous sights and popular attractions in Utah. Covering 35 acres, it’s filled with a variety of things to see and do.  All tours at Temple Square are free, so check out some of the best things at Temple Square.

The Temple Square Tour is led by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is the perfect introduction to Temple Square and the Mormon heritage.  Tours are available In-person or Live Virtual. You can book your tour online and choose from 40 languages!

The Salt Lake Temple holds the spotlight on the square.  The temple is constructed of quartz monzonite sourced from Little Cottonwood Canyon, located 20 miles away. Although the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to complete, the area surrounding the temple became the center of the city. Salt Lake’s gridded street system places Temple Square as its origin; each address is an indication of how many blocks north, south, east or west that address  is from Temple Square.

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square is composed of 360 volunteers and has performed in the Salt Lake Tabernacle for over 100 years.  It has also performed across the country and in 28 foreign countries, from acclaimed concert halls to inaugurations of U.S. presidents. The Tabernacle houses an organ, consisting of 11,623 pipes, which usually accompanies the choir.