Antelope Island is the largest island in the Great Salt Lake. It is reached via a 7.2 mile causeway.
This former military post quartered the largest troop concentration in the United States from 1858 to 1861. About 400 buildings housed the 3, 500 troops sent West to suppress an assumed Mormon rebellion. The troops returned East in 1861 for Civil War duty.
Twelve miles off U.S. Highway 89 near Kanab, lies the wide-sweeping expanse of Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park. It is a wonderful place for riding off-highway vehicles, taking photographs or just playing in the sand.
East Canyon Reservoir is a 680-acre boating and year-round fishing delight nestled in the mountains northeast of Salt Lake City on state routes 65 and 66.
Edge of The Cedars State Park is the site of a pre-Colombian Pueblo Indian ruin and a modern museum, which is the regional archaeological repository for southeast Utah.
Scores of intricately eroded creatures greet visitors to Goblin Valley. Hike among intricately eroded rock formations in haunting coves in this photographers' paradise.
The marina is 16 miles west of Salt Lake City on Interstate 80. A marina with 300 slips is available for year-round boating on the lake that seldom freezes. No entrance fee is charged.
In scenic red rock country, 15 miles northwest of sunny St. George lies the 240-acre Gunlock Reservoir where year-round boating, water sports and quality fishing for bass and catfish attract visitors. Facilities include boat launching ramp and pit privies.
This beautifully landscaped state park is 237 acres of boating, swimming and fishing fun. The park is located just outside Huntington on State Route 10 at the base of the Wasatch Plateau.
Hyrum State Park invites boating, year-round fishing, water-skiing, camping and swimming on a 450-acre lake in northern Utah.
Located in the mountains of northern Utah, Lost Creek is a 365-surface-acre reservoir perfect for boating, fishing and water sports. The park is 10 miles northeast of Croyden.
A secluded 435-acre lake at the mouth of scenic Ferron Canyon awaits visitors who love water-oriented activities. Millsite State Park also offers access to excellent off-highway vehicle and mountain bike riding areas. Fishing is open year-round.
Piute State Park is open year-round for trophy fishing. Popular activities include camping, boating, waterfowl hunting in season and rock hounding. Piute Reservoir is a 3, 360-acre mountain lake 12 miles south of Marysvale just off U.S. Highway 89.
Quail Creek State Park provides excellent year-round camping, picnicking, boating, and trout and bass fishing in sunny southwest Utah. The park is three miles east of the Interstate 15 Hurricane exit on State Route 9.
Nestled among scenic red slick-rock formations, Red Fleet Reservoir offers excellent boating and year-round fishing. This picturesque state park is located 10 miles north of Vernal just off Highway 191.
ed Navajo sandstone, capped by an overlay of black lava rock, makes photography, hiking, biking and camping in Snow Canyon a double treat. Early spring and fall use of the park is especially appealing due to southern Utah's moderate winter climate.
Starvation Reservoir offers 3, 50-acres of fishing and boating fun four miles northwest of Duchesne on Highway 40. A 54 unit campground, sandy beach, modern rest rooms, showers, group-use area, and fish cleaning and sewage disposal stations are available.
DescriptionStep back in time as you walk through the dinosaur garden. Look up to a full-size replica of a 20-foot tall Tyrannosaurus with six-inch knife-like teeth or look down on a ferocious four-foot meat-eating Coelophysis.
Willard Bay rests atop the Great Salt Lake flood plain in northern Utah. Its 9, 900 acres of fresh water provide boating, waterskiing and year-round fishing for crappie, walleye, wiper and catfish. Camping also is popular at the park.
Warm water and sandy beaches lure visitors to Yuba from April through November for boating, swimming, waterskiing, picnicking and year-round fishing. Fishing is for walleye and yellow perch.
Escalante State Park features colorful deposits of mineralized wood and dinosaur bones. The 130-acre Wide Hollow Reservoir on the park's boundary adds water recreation and fishing. OHV riding areas are closeby. The park is located 1.
Fremont Indian State Park was established to preserve Clear Creek Canyon's treasury of rock art and archaeological sites. Visit the museum in the visitor center where a video program introduces you to the Fremont Indians.
Green River State Park is an oasis on the bank of the Green River where tall cottonwood trees shade well-manicured lawns.
The Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail State Park is a 28-mile trail for non-motorized use. The trail begins or ends at Park City and follows Interstate 80 through Wanship and Coalville to Echo Reservoir. Facilities are being developed.
The Iron Mission museum tells the story of development in Iron County when, in the 1850s, Brigham Young sent Mormon missionaries there to mine iron. Museum displays include horse-drawn vehicles used from 1850 to 1920 and a collection of pioneer artifacts.
Kodachrome Basin is a spectacle of massive sandstone chimneys, ever-changing from gray and white to shades of red with the day's mood. Numerous rocks and coves offer solitude, quiet and unique desert beauty.
Year-round fishing and boating on 3, 120-acre Otter Creek Reservoir are the park's featured activities. The park is four miles northwest of Antimony on State Route 22.
Seventy-acre Palisade Reservoir draws swimmers, year-round anglers and non-motorized watercraft enthusiasts. There is also an 18-hole golf course, practice range, professional golf shop and snack bar.
Rockport Reservoir features first-rate, year-round fishing, waterskiing, swimming, sailboarding and sailboating. It is 45 miles east of Salt Lake City near Wanship on State Route 32.
Scofield is both a summer and winter recreation delight. It is situated 7, 600 feet above sea level in the Manti-LaSal Mountains of the Wasatch Plateau. The 2, 800-acre lake offers excellent boating and year-round fishing.
Sandy beaches, swimming, boating and waterskiing top the list of activities at Steinaker. Year-round fishing is for rainbow trout and largemouth bass. The park is seven miles north of Vernal, just off Utah Highway 191 in northeastern Utah.
Utah's oldest existing governmental building is the Territorial Statehouse in Fillmore. In anticipation of Utah's statehood, Brigham Young directed construction of the building as the state's capitol. Only the south wing was ever completed.
At Utah Lake you can fish year-round for channel catfish, walleye, white bass, black bass and several different species of panfish in Utah's largest fresh water lake.
Wasatch Mountain State Park, in beautiful Heber Valley, is Utah's most developed state park. Tucked away in the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, the park is both a summer and winter wonderland.
Bear Lake is nestled high in the Rocky Mountains on the Utah-Idaho border. Waterskiing, swimming, scuba diving and sailing are favorite activities. Fishing is for cutthroat, mackinaw and whitefish.
Dead Horse Point is perhaps Utahs most spectacular state park. Towering 2, 000 feet directly above the Colorado River, Dead Horse Point provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands sculptured pinnacles and buttes.
Recreation facilities at San Luis Lake were constructed under a cost-share agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of Colorado during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Scenic views, chance wildlife sightings and a sense of history await you on the Mokaac Trail. Mokaac Trail was once part of a main road onto the western Arizona Strip beginning in the early 1900's.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a dramatic, multi-hued landscape that is rich in natural and human history. Extending across 1.