Hidden Utah
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Neat Utah Places to Explore – If You Can Get In
As if Utah doesn’t have an endless supply of natural landscapes and historic sites to discover, the state is also packed with mysterious underground wonders just begging to be explored…
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Squaw Peak Road – My favorite Sunday drive in Utah
Squaw Peak Road is my favorite Sunday drive in Utah. The out-of-car outdoor recreational opportunities are too numerous to list, but include lots of native flora and fauna viewing, many…
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Red Acre Center – Community-Supported Agriculture Program Offers Fresh, Local Food
The nonprofit Red Acre Center for Food and Agriculture lobbies for legislation that boosts community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs. The for-profit Red Acre Farm sells shares in the operation, and…
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Grafton – A Silver Screen Ghost Town
Covered in dust and aged by tragedy, there’s an old town situated outside of Zion National Park. Now a ghost town, Grafton was repeatedly abandoned by Mormon settlers because of…
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Fringe Gambling in Utah- New Law Takes Another Swipe at a Persistent Pastime
Whether in the form of poker games in mining town saloons to less obvious games of chance such as church raffles, gambling has been a secret vice in Utah since…
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Spelunking in Utah – Exploring the Vast World Beneath – Cavers Take Their Sightseeing Underground
The Beehive State’s underground world, shaped by water, minerals and time, is filled with colorful formations like helictites — hollow twiglike deposits of calcite or aragonite — and the aptly-named…
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Hidden Utah
Utah is a massive place. In twelve years of writing Utah Stories, I can still say I’ve only seen a small fraction of this incredible state. Every year if I…
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Allen Park in Sugar House is Saved From Development
Allen Park in Sugar House is saved from development after a group of citizens decided to petition to get the city to buy Allen Park.
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Saving Sheep Bridge: A Southern Utah Gem is Threatened
s Zion National Park has become an increasingly popular destination for tourists, there has been a great deal of growth in the area. Once pristine river bank and flood plain…
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Jann Haworth: Salt Lake City Murals
Thousands of people a year pass by a mural to what closely resembles the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover and never know why it’s in downtown…
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Your Summer Vacation on Ice in Escalante and Boulder Utah
Utah has so much natural splendor, it’s a shame we feel so strongly that it can only be enjoyed in the spring and summer, the same time the rest of…
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All Aboard! Idyllic Worlds Recreated by Utah Model Trains Artist Lee Witten
Model railroading attracts teenagers, 80-year-olds, and everyone in-between, proving that train buffs like Lee are obviously on the right track.
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Ty’s Garden Dedication in Memory of Dr. Ty Harrison
“Ty was always our “Lorax” at Westminster” she added. “As Dr. Seuss says, ‘He speaks for the trees.’ This piece of Hidden Hollow that now will bear his name is…
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Sculpture Memorializes a Man and His Mission in Sugar House
Jim Kirkman was known as many things to his friends and family in Sugar House: Master Gardener, educator, an encyclopedia of desert knowledge, an archaeologist with a reverence for what…