SLC Trip

by tomperiodjenkins

14 Places

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City Public Library

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Gilgal Sculpture Garden

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Tintic Standard Reduction Mill

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

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Thistle Ghost Town

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

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Roots of Knowledge Stained Glass

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

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Homestead Crater

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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The "Up" House

A replica that won't float away.

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Saltair

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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Fantasy Canyon

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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Richfield, Utah

Pando, the Trembling Giant

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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Mystic Hot Springs

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

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Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine

Largest man-made excavation on earth!