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Places to visit in Utah

22 towns, cities and natural areas we have written up, with our picks first.

The Salt Lake Temple on Temple Square

Salt Lake City & the Wasatch Front

Salt Lake City

Capital city with mountain views
An elevated, wide-angle view of a town center street lined with low-rise commercial buildings, parking lots, and green trees, set against a backdrop of a large, layered red rock mesa.

Moab, Arches & Canyonlands

Moab

Adventure hub at the edge of the high desert
A street-level view of a commercial district with brick buildings, storefronts including "Woodburne Jewelers" and "D'Angelo's," parked cars, and a forested hill in the background.

Park City & the Wasatch Back

Park City

Historic mining town with world-class ski resorts
Springdale main street with Zion Canyon cliffs behind

Zion & St. George

Springdale

Gateway town to Zion National Park
A white, multi-tiered temple building with a central spire, flanked by palm trees and manicured lawns, with people walking on the grounds.

Zion & St. George

St. George

Largest city in Southern Utah with desert recreation
A panoramic landscape photograph showing a vast, deep canyon filled with dense, reddish-orange hoodoo rock formations, with green coniferous trees visible on the rim and in the crevices, set against a cloudy sky.

Bryce Canyon & Grand Staircase-Escalante

Bryce Canyon City

Gateway to Bryce Canyon with historic Ruby's Inn
A view of a downtown streetscape at dusk, featuring a brick building with a "Central Bank" sign, a Marriott hotel, and a tall white office building, with the Wasatch Mountains visible in the background.

Salt Lake City & the Wasatch Front

Provo

University city in the Wasatch Front region
The Ogden Utah Temple

Salt Lake City & the Wasatch Front

Ogden

Outdoor recreation hub with historic downtown
A paved two-lane road stretching straight into the distance, flanked by desert scrub, with the iconic red rock buttes of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park visible in the background.

Lake Powell & Monument Valley

Monument Valley

Tribal park with towering sandstone buttes
The Heber Valley Railroad depot in Heber City

Park City & the Wasatch Back

Heber City

Alpine town with Swiss heritage in the Wasatch Mountains
A landscape view showing a large, turquoise alpine lake in the distance, framed by rolling hills in the foreground covered with grass, wildflowers, and scattered coniferous trees, under a cloudy sky.

Cache Valley & Bear Lake

Garden City

Lakeside town on the shore of turquoise Bear Lake
The Cedar City Utah Temple

Zion & St. George

Cedar City

Shakespeare, Cedar Breaks and the Markagunt Plateau

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