In 1847, when Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Church president Brigham Young selected a plot of the desert ground and proclaimed, “Here we will build a temple to our God.” When the city was surveyed, the block enclosing that location was designated for the temple, and became known as Temple Square. Temple [...]
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Utah Narrows
The “Narrows” are upstream from the main Zion Canyon, where the walls squeeze to slot canyon dimensions: 1,500 feet tall and as narrow as 30 feet wide in places. In these spots, the water flows from wall to wall so hiking it involves a lot of wading through the Virgin River. The Narrows span a [...]
Lake Powell
Lake Powell is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona (most of it, along with Rainbow Bridge, is in Utah). It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet (30 km³) of water when full. Lake Powell was created by [...]
Cornbelly’s @ Thanksgiving point!
LEHI — This year Thanksgiving Point gave locals the opportunity to decide the theme for the two corn mazes, the second being a haunted maze based on local author Brandon Mull’s Fablehaven fantasy book series. Cub Scout Committee member Lisa Watterson presented her idea of the 100th birthday of Scouting theme and was thrilled when [...]