- Take a Brigham Young University (BYU) Guided Tour
- BYU Earth Science Museum (FREE!)
- BYU Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum (FREE!)
- BYU Museum of Art (FREE!)
- Museum of Peoples and Cultures (FREE!)
- Springville Museum of Art
- Rollerblade up Provo Canyon
- Walk to Bridal Veil falls
- Run a 5k, held annually during city festivals in Alpine, Highland (Fling), American Fork (Steel Days), Pleasant Grove, Provo (Freedom Festival) and others
- free concerts weekly at Borders
- visit the two art galleries at the riverwoods
- Visit a ghosttown
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- Mormon Temple Square in Salt Lake City
- Newspaper Rock State Historical Monument. This is a petroglyph panel etched in sandstone that records perhaps 2,000 years of human activity in the area. Etched into the desert varnish are symbols' representing the Fremont, Anasazi, Navajo and Anglo cultures. The exact nature of these symbols meaning is still not clearly understood. But they are typical of many sites throughout the U.S. in their use of universal symbols, be it graffiti or a true "newspaper," recording events of the times and earlier.
- Monument Valley- Visit southwest Utah, the most scenic area in the U.S. Visit the place that influenced the scenes in the RoadRunner cartoon.
- Golden Spike National Historic Site- The first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. was celebrated here in 1869 with the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads.
- Mexican Hat- Come and see Mexican Hat. It has a rim 60 feet in diameter and 12 feet thick. The whole formation weighs 2500 tons.
- Butler Wash Ruins Overlook. These are cliff dwellings that were built and occupied by the Anasazi about 1200 AD. The site has been stabilized and reconstructed to some degree, but most of it remains as it was found in the 1800s.
Interesting Cities to Visit
- Moab, near the Colorado border, is a sport-enthusiast's dream. The town overlooks the Colorado River where some of the best white-water rafting can be had in the US. Zane Grey, a noted western writer, used Moab as the background for many of his novels. Many ol' west outlaws (remember Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) also used the area as a home base. Today, tourism is the area's most important industry. Visitors can go off-roading, white-water rafting, canoeing, mountain biking, hiking, skiing, and horseback riding.
- Park City, east of Salt Lake City, is the home of the US Ski Team and Ski Association, and will be the site of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Winter sports flourish in this area ? cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, and snowboarding. In the spring, summer, and fall the visitor can enjoy horseback riding and mountain biking. In January, film buffs gather for premieres of independent filmmakers at Sundance Institutes' (Robert Redford) Sundance Film Festival.
- Price, in central Utah, is located in the heart of dinosaur country. There is an excellent museum, the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, where visitors can observe the area's most recent finds being meticulously brushed and cleaned by museum staff before being put on display somewhere in the world. Also of interest is the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry.
- Provo, in central Utah, was founded in 1825 by a French-Canadian explorer, Etienne Provost, who thought enough of the area to form a settlement here. Both the river and the city are named after him. While visiting, tour the Brigham Young University campus, the Earth Science Museum, Museum of Art, Museum of Peoples and Cultures, and the McCurdy Historical Doll Museum.
- St. George, located in Utah's southwestern corner, is graced with a moderate climate ? warm in the summer, mild in the winter. Brigham Young's followers, who were looking for a suitable place to grow cotton, settled here. Of interest to visitors are the Brigham Young Winter Home (restored home with 1900's furnishings), Daughters of Pioneers Museum, Jacob Hamblin Home (Mormon missionary known for his peacemaking efforts between American Indians and Mormons), and Snow Canyon State Park.
- Salt Lake City is in northern Utah. In 1847, Brigham Young, leading a group of Mormons in search of a place to avoid religious persecution, declared this area to be home. Some interesting places to visit in the city are the Cathedral of Madeleine, Council Hall-Capitol Hill, Family History Library (one of the world's largest genealogical libraries), Great Salt Lake State Marina, Hansen Planetarium, International Peace Garden (gardens representing 14 nations), University of Utah, and Utah State Historical Society Museum.
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