Travel Information for Utah Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Utah attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Utah state park, this is where you will find it.
UTAH is called "Crossroads of the West, the place where cities, mountains, rivers and cultures converge. From the red rocks of southern Utah's national parks to the its snow-clad mountains. Utah offers outdoor adventures: skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, trout fishing and whitewater rafting.
SKI UTAH’s 14 mountain resorts – including the 2002 Olympic Winter Games venues – have skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing for winter sports enthusiasts, and camping, biking and hiking for summer buffs. Salt Lake City is the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle choir.
5 miles north of Moab, ARCHES NATIONAL PARK has the world’s largest concentration of natural stone arches; over 2000 “miracles of nature’ and other unique geological resources and formations grace the 73,000 acres of the park.
BRIDGERLAND encompasses Cache Valley, Logan, and turquoise-colored Bear Lake in the northeast corner of Utah.
Just east of LOGAN is the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Logan Canyon has many geological wonders, including large rock outcroppings, vertical rock formations, caves and even wind tunnels. The famous climbing-challenge "China Wall" can be seen for 20 miles along the canyon.
BRIGHAM CITY's Mormon Box Elder Tabernacle is one of the most beautiful structures in Utah. Near town are several interesting stops: the Morton Thiokol Space Shuttle Rocket Display, the Golden Spike National Historic Site where the U.S. was joined by rail in May 1869, and the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.
About 24 miles southeast of Panguitch, erosion has shaped the pink cliffs of BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK into thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles, and mazes collectively called "hoodoos".
CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, Utah’s largest national park, offers a colorful landscape of sedimentary sandstones eroded into countless canyons, mesas and buttes by the Colorado River and its tributaries.
The multi-colored cliffs common to CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK and this region inspired the Indians who once lived here to name it the "Land of the Sleeping Rainbow".
30 minutes away from CEDAR CITY and nestled in the heart of the Dixie National Forest, Cedar Breaks National Monument is shaped like a giant coliseum resembling a miniature Bryce Canyon.
DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, located near VERNAL, has produced a large number of complete dinosaur skeletons, both juvenile and adult since 1909.
FLAMING GORGE LAKE, enclosed by brightly colored canyon walls and set amidst hundreds of thousands of acres of forested hills, makes up the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
GLEN CANYON and LAKE POWELL provide water-based and back-country recreation.
GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE NATIONAL MONUMENT is an area in southern Utah of plateaus, sandstone canyon, unique rock formations and cliffs.
HOVENWEEP NATIONAL MONUMENT is a collection of unique prehistoric archeological sites. Located along the border between Utah and Colorado, the monument is noted for its solitude and undeveloped, natural character.
Nestled in a fertile green valley between soaring red sandstone cliffs, MOAB is "Adventure Central" for river rafting, mountain biking, 4WD adventures, hiking, climbing, golfing and the gateway to Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Dead Horse Point State Park. There are spectacular views from the tops of the mesas to the floors of the canyons.
Some of the finest examples of ancient stone architecture in the southwest can be found at NATURAL BRIDGES NATIONAL MONUMENT; where meandering streams cut through the canyon walls, three natural bridges formed: Kachina, Owahcomo and Sipapu.
At OGDEN Guides in period dress at Fort Buenaventura State Park interpret the fort, the lifestyle of the Mountain men and the Indians who inhabited the area; Ogden is a gateway to the Golden Spike National Historic Site where two railroads came together in 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
The Sundance Film festival is held in PARK CITY every January and features the work of independent filmmakers from all over the world.
Located just south of PRICE is a dinosaur hunters' paradise, Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, one of the foremost dinosaur fossil sources. With its rock art, Nine Mile Canyon has been called by some the world’s longest outdoor art gallery corridor.
Formed by the erosion of the sandstone by water flowing from Navajo Mountain towards the Colorado River, RAINBOW BRIDGE NATIONAL MONUMENT is the world's largest natural bridge.
ST. GEORGE is Southwestern Utah’s gateway to national parks and monuments. Other attractions are The Tuacahn Center for the Arts, which dominates a redrock canyon and presents Broadway musicals, and the golf courses.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah’s capital city, is the world headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which is renowned for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the many-spired Mormon Temple; Salt Lake City’s cultural scene includes the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Red Butte Gardens and Arboretum at the University of Utah featuring a 1500-acre botanic collection and ecology center; south of Salt Lake City at Thanksgiving Point is a museum and a landscaped collection of theme gardens, ponds, lakes and waterfall in a 55-acre natural amphitheater; west of Salt Lake City is Great Salt Lake, one of the nation's largest lakes. Bonneville Salt Flats, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist there, stretches over 30,000 acres. Fifteen National Parks and Monuments are within a one-day drive from Salt Lake – 12 in Utah.
Sitting high in the Wasatch Mountains, TIMPANOGOS CAVE NATIONAL MONUMENT consists of three spectacularly decorated caverns. Nestled at the base of the Majestic Wasatch Range of the Rockies just 40 minutes south of Salt Lake International Airport is Utah County - known regionally as UTAH VALLEY and for the twin cities of Provo and Orem.
Protected within ZION NATIONAL PARK is a spectacular cliff-and-canyon landscape and wilderness full of the unexpected including the world's largest arch; wildlife such as mule deer, golden eagles, and mountain lions also inhabit the Park.
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