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There are many scenic attractions that make Utah unique. Utah has five National Parks, seven National Monuments, two National Recreation Areas and one National Historic Site in its boundaries. That is more than any other state. Utah also has 45 heritage, scenic, recreation, and water front state parks.
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Tourist Attractions:
Some of Utah's most popular attractions are historical.
|  The Great Salt Lake is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere. Native Americans used freshwater marshes and streams around the lake for hunting and fishing. Trappers explored the region and some thought it had a river flowing west into the Pacific Ocean. When Mormon settlers came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, they used the lake to supply them with salt.
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 Temple Square is the most visited site in Utah. Brigham Young picked the site for the temple four days after the pioneers arrived into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. The temple was finished in 1893. There are other historic buildings on Temple Square, including the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle, the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. |
 The Bonneville Salt Flats are actually the bed of a huge lake that was once in Utah. It was called Lake Bonneville and was the size of Lake Michigan. Now the flats are a salt (potash) floor from one to six inches thick. The Salt Flats became a racing area for cars starting in the 1920s, when a man called Ab Jenkins raced an excursion train in a Studebaker--and won! Since then, racers from all over the world have come to Utah to race on the Bonneville Salt Flats. |
 The Greatest Snow on Earth. 500 inches of the lightest, driest, and fluffiest snow found anywhere in the world falls at the ski resorts in Utah. Eleven of Utah's 14 resorts are located within a one-hour drive of Salt Lake City. Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort, and Snowbasin Ski Area hosted alpine events for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. |
National Parks:
With five national parks, Utah is America's national parks capital!
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Utah Almanac
This web link has information about such things as elevation, longitude/latitude, roads, zip codes, phone prefixes and related historical information for cities and places in Utah. It also has satellite images and other geographic information.
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