Guides to Salt Lake City and northern Utah
Written by the people who run the tours, and edited to be useful whether or not you book one. Where the answer is “do something else”, we say so.
One day in Salt Lake City: how to spend it well
Most visitors get one day here, usually side-on to a conference or a ski trip. Here is how to use it, from the people who drive this valley for a living.
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Antelope Island: a visitor's guide
The largest island in the Great Salt Lake carries roughly 500 wild bison and sits 45 minutes from a downtown Salt Lake City hotel. Here is what nobody tells you before you go.
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The best time to visit the Bonneville Salt Flats
The single most useful thing to know about the salt flats is that they’re underwater for half the year, and that the flooded version might be the better one.
6 min read
Bryce or Arches: which national park day trip from Salt Lake City?
Both are thirteen-hour private days at the same price. They aren’t the same trip, and for a lot of visitors neither is the right call.
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Salt Lake City in winter, if you aren’t skiing
Half the people who land here in January are attached to somebody else’s ski trip. This is the guide for them.
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