TTMA Salt Lake City

[kyzo]

*dirty lurker*
It's been four years since I've been there, so I'm sure some of it has changed. If you have a rental car Park City has some nice outlets. I'm not religious, but we took a tour of the LDS Temple Square and went to the Family History Library (DH is way into genealogy). Near downtown is the Gateway mall. There really isnt anything special about this mall, but it's a place to kill time. One night we went to a Jazz basketball game last minute.

We stayed downtown and ate at Squatters twice. DH loved sampling all their beers. I've also eaten at Ocean City Seafood Market, which I thought had good seafood. We found a yummy German deli downtown (Siegfried's). We also ate at Log Haven (little bit of a drive) and I thought it was excellent, but pricey. Since we don't live near an In N Out, we had to get lunch there one day as well.

Have fun on the slopes, the snow there is amazing.

[thechickencoop]

[wildflower810]

*lurker*

I grew up there. I avoided a lot of town down, though, and you can't pay me to tour Temple Square (not a Mormon). The Planetarium is cool, the downtown library is neat to wander for a bit if you like giant libraries. City Creek Center is a huge shopping complex and etc... I moved out of state before it was finished but I've heard a lot about it and seen plenty of selfies there from friends. Red Butte Garden is awesome, but idk what it's like in the winter. If you have any desire to go to a classical concert, Abravanel Hall is stunning.

Park City is very tourist trappy. Outlet malls, yes, but if the roads are snowy I wouldn't drive the mountain pass to get there just for shopping.

Be aware that the air quality in SLC can be crap. Up on the mountains skiing you'll be fine, but if there hasn't been a storm for a while and the inversion layer comes in the valley gets crazy smoggy. If you have breathing issues at all be prepared.

SLC International airport is a breeze. Seriously. I've been known to make it from the curb to the gate in 10 minutes. So don't stress out about that too much.

[wildflower810]

Oh, and don't drive out to the Salt Lake. It's dead, smelly, gross, and you'll freeze your butt off in the winter. I meet people who are so excited to go see the lake and I'm like "you aren't from here, are you?"

[Quinstar]

I was raised south of Salt Lake a ways, but if you're in the downtown area, the University of Utah has a brand new museum of natural history, I worked for them before the new building was built and it's supposed to be really nice.

I don't know all of the hip spots downtown, but Temple square is usually very pretty, although there are a ton of people. Utah has gotten very, very crowded. The valley is just not what it used to be. Park City, up in the mountains is a huge tourist trap, but the Sundance Film Festival is Jan 21-31st and it's a huge deal. All sorts of star gazing and independent movies. www.sundance.org/festivals/sundance-film-festival

Of course, you have to take parleys, and although it's pretty well maintained, it's a steep, winding road up the mountain. If you're into skiing, you're in luck because there is tons of it, and I think they've had pretty good snow fall this year. Snowbird, Deer Valley are two places off the top of my head. They have buses that meet you at the foot of the mountain and take you up.

Stay out of the West Valley area, don't be afraid of taking Trax everywhere, like it goes everywhere. In the Sandy/Midvale area there's a little place called Gardner Village that's pretty cute, it's a little old timey place with a bunch of small privately owned shops. If I can think of more, I'll mention it.

[Quinstar]

redrocksonline.com

There is a concert on the 29th of January only, Red Rocks is a pretty happening place but not this month I guess. They have a park and usually a ton of stuff going on, you'd have to look over their website.

nhmu.utah.edu/

There's the link to the museum. They discovered a new dinosaur a few years ago and +1 to the planetarium that place is awesome. I believe there is a fish zoo too in SLC. I lost the word for fish zoo.

ETA more


www.gardnervillage.com/ 

Also, if you are going to The Gateway mall in downtown, you have to see the old train station, you can go inside and it's a gorgeous building, it's right in front of the entrance to the mall, if you take the Trax. There's also some Olympics stuff around the city from when they were there in 2002ish.  

[Quinstar]

Oh, and Wendover. Its about an hour and a half out of the valley, it's on the border of Utah and Nevada, it's got gambling and the such. I think they have buses that take you out there for the night etc.

[cnf2013]

Jan 6, 2016 14:36:20 GMT -5 thechickencoop said:

Excellent movie

[Quinstar]

No problem ugaqueencity
If you have any questions I'm happy to be helpful

[Quinstar]

Jan 7, 2016 17:46:30 GMT -5 ugaqueencity said:

Jan 7, 2016 17:34:31 GMT -5 Quinstar said:

No problem ugaqueencity
If you have any questions I'm happy to be helpful

Once I know where our hotel is I maybe asking for restaurant recommendations!

Sure, I haven't lived there for a few years, but I have relatives that I can hit up and see what they like.