Recreation
The Salt Lake City area features some of the best recreation in the world. Living along the Wasatch Front, you enjoy a four-season climate and you’re just hours from stunning, natural landscapes. For example, Park City and other world-renowned ski resorts are just 40 minutes away. Award-winning golf courses feature spectacular surroundings at affordable prices. Lake Powell, the houseboat destination of the West, offers water advertures for everyone. Arches National Park offers some of the best mountain biking in the country. In fact, there are five national parks in the state of Utah: Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce, Zion, and Capitol Reef.
You can almost always enjoy the excitement of professional sports teams. Salt Lake City is home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz, the IHL’s Utah Grizzlies, the USL’s Utah Blitzz and the Salt Lake Stingers minor league baseball team.
Don’t forget about Utah’s Olympic Legacy. In February 2002, Salt Lake City hosted the XIX Olympic Winter Games. More than 2,000 athletes from 85 nations shared in the drama and excitement of 75 medal events in 10 different sports. Today, many Olympic venues are open to the public:
- Utah Olympic Oval Speed Skating
- E-Center Ice Hockey
- Ice Sheet at Ogden
- Deer Valley Mountain Resort
- Slalom, Freestyle Aerials, and Freestyle Moguls
- Utah Olympic Park
- Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, and Nordic Combined
- Soldier Hollow (Wasatch State Park)
- Cross-Country Skiing
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Utah Facts
- 14 Alpine ski resorts operate in Utah.
- Dinosaur National Monument in Vernal, Utah, features the largest quarry of Jurassic Period dinosaur bones ever discovered.
- Utah is the site of the nation’s first department store. Zion’s Co-operative Mercantile Institution was established in the late 1800s. It is still in operation today as Macy’s.
- The Great Salt Lake covers 2,100 square miles, with an average depth of 13 feet. The deepest point is 34 feet.
- Lagoon amusement park has been in existence for over a hundred years.
- Utah is ranked sixth in the U.S. for the amount of boatable water per capita. Utah offers over 100 bodies of water that are considered boatable.
