I'm Visiting Salt Lake City, What Should I See?

[mhansen]

What are the must-sees in SLC? What are the best LDS things to visit? And what about the best secular things? Etc.?

[pam]

Temple square of course. This is the Place Monument is another.

[john doe]

If basketball is your thing, I hear they have a team that plays in the Energy Solutions Arena during the winter months. For decent football you'll have to travel 40 miles south to Provo. There is a team in Salt Lake City, but they're not expected to be any good this year.

[bytebear]

I would recommend going to the Gateway shopping center. If you have a car, I would drive up to Park City and spend a day there. Take the Temple Square Tour as well as the Conference Center tour. Both are worth it. You can also take the Beehive House, but I really wish it were more a historic tour, rather than a missionary tour. I like to walk the grounds of the University of Utah, and I have to stop for lunch at the Pie Pizzeria. You might want to stop by the Cathedral of the Madeline too. Oh, and last time we visited, we did a tour of the State Capital. It was awesome.

[lestertheemt]

One of my favorite is the Church History Museum.................if your into geneology then the Family History Library is a must.

I am also a bit partial to This Is The Place Heritage Park - - -http://www.thisistheplace.org/

While at Temple Square I also recommend seeing the film "Joseph Smith The Prophet of the Restoration" at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

[prisonchaplain]

If you have kids the Hogue Zoo and Tracy Avery were good. There's a park next to the Avery, and it has a few rides. Nothing fancy, but a nice one-hour diversion. Temple Square has a secular attraction to it in that it's an interesting place to people watch. See if you can note the members from non-members, the non-religious from the religious. Then of course, you can view the Square as the Church's presentation of itself to the non-member world. After all, as much as the faithful may enjoy looking around, the main purpose of those missionaries is to sift out potential converts/investigators. And, as heavy as the missionary and religious volunteer presence is, there was very little pressure to agree with particular doctrinal statements, sign up to see missionaries, etc. The closest I got to that line of conversation was win a missionary winked and said, "If you really want to see inside the Temple we can begin a process to make that happen." :-)

[Honor]

SLC Points of Interest - Google Maps

Made this for Marshac who came to visit this past weekend. I've been adding to it, but it's pretty much the general sites to see.

[Dr T]

The PIE (pizza) don't miss it!

[DigitalShadow]

Originally Posted by Dr T

The PIE (pizza) don't miss it!

Ahhhh... The Pie pizza, or as I like to call it, "heart attack in a box."

Seriously though, it is some GOOD pizza.

[pam]

Yep and you don't even have to go up to the UofU to go to "The Pie" any longer. There are a couple of other locations as well.