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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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New Faces in Salt Lake Places
As the business boom continues and brings along with it an increasing number of out-of-state transplants like myself, here’s a look at the unique individuals putting down roots in Utah.
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Discovering Moab, Again
There are hundreds if not thousands of different things to do in Moab, such as 4x4ing, rafting, hiking, biking, rock climbing, rock hunting, finding dinosaur tracks & fossils, skydiving, kayaking,…
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February Fun Guide: A Brief Introduction to How to Not Get Depressed in February
Welcome to February 2020! The groundhog will soon tell us if we have the worst part of winter behind us. February has a knack of being one of those months…
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A Tale of Two Prisons: Construction of a modernized state penitentiary is underway almost 70 years after the closure of Utah’s first state prison in Sugar House
Nearly 70 years ago, Utah’s first state prison closed its doors and was transformed into the much-loved Sugar House Park. Construction is now underway on a new penitentiary that is…
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Utahns’ Love Affair with Cottonwood Canyon
The love affair with Cottonwood Canyon began long before the Mormon Pioneers settled Salt Lake City in 1847.
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For 100 Years, the Wasatch Mountain Club Has Been Inviting People to Meet Up and Explore Utah’s Ample Splendors
For 100 years, the Wasatch Mountain Club has been inviting people to meet up and explore Utah’s ample splendors, make friends, and get exercise to boot. In 1920, 13 men…
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Utah Ski Resort Roundup
Known locally as Pow Mow, the resort boasts the most skiable acreage in North America with 8,464 acres. Preserving the Pow Mow experience and keeping the mountain uncrowded is made…
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The Cottonwood Canyons Foundation—Improving Millcreek, Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons for Today, Tomorrow
Twelve years ago, when Cottonwood Canyons Foundation Volunteer Jean Acheson pulled a pale-yellow volunteer t-shirt over her head for a wildflower festival, she had no idea it would become part…
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Chains Not Interested in Sugar House Decorations
These questions remain: Shouldn’t the large regional and national businesses in the SHBD support the community that supports them? Where will the Santa Shack go at the end of this…
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Fundraiser at Uinta, Cotton Bottom Returns, Hearth on 25th
“The Cotton Bottom Inn is the quintessential neighborhood bar and restaurant and our goal as the developer will be to bring a high-quality, enduring project through the preservation of its…
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Illuminate Salt Lake Festival
As part of The Illuminate Festival, the UAA and The Gateway have partnered to turn the entire Gateway into a dreamy winter wonderland of light and art. The art installations…