A Patriotic Family Road Trip in Utah

Utah State Capitol

Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City's 1916 capitol was later retrofitted with base isolators, letting the entire building shift safely in an earthquake.

Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum

Fillmore, UT

Utah's first territorial capitol, built of red sandstone from 1852 to 1855 and the state's oldest existing government building.

This Is the Place Heritage Park

Salt Lake City, UT

Marks the spot where Brigham Young's pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, after a 1,300-mile trek for religious freedom.

Zion National Park

Springdale, UT

Red sandstone canyons two thousand feet deep, walked from the bottom up.

Golden Spike National Historical Park

Promontory, UT

Promontory Summit, where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific joined on May 10, 1869 to complete the first transcontinental railroad.

Temple Square

Salt Lake City, UT

The ten acres at the center of Salt Lake City laid out by Brigham Young's pioneers after 1847, with the Tabernacle and historic visitor centers.

Cove Fort

Cove Fort, UT

A black volcanic-rock fort built in 1867 as a way station on the road through central Utah, with free guided tours.

Topaz Museum

Delta, UT

The museum of the Topaz camp, where more than 11,000 Japanese Americans were held during World War II.

Brigham Young Winter Home

St. George, UT

The 1870s adobe winter home of Brigham Young in the town he sent settlers to found to grow cotton.

St. George Tabernacle

St. George, UT

A red sandstone meetinghouse completed in 1876, one of the finest pioneer buildings in the West.

Jacob Hamblin Home

Santa Clara, UT

The 1863 sandstone home of Jacob Hamblin, the pioneer missionary and peacemaker of southern Utah.

Silver Reef Ghost Town

Leeds, UT

The remains of a silver-mining town of the 1870s, the only place in the country where silver was found in sandstone.

Hill Aerospace Museum

Roy, UT

An Air Force museum at Hill Air Force Base with more than ninety aircraft and missiles.

Fort Douglas Military Museum

Salt Lake City, UT

A museum on the Army post founded in 1862 above Salt Lake City to guard the overland mail and telegraph.

Historic Wendover Airfield

Wendover, UT

The World War II base where the 509th Composite Group and the crew of the Enola Gay trained in secret.

Camp Floyd State Park Museum

Fairfield, UT

The site of the post where, in 1858–61, the largest concentration of U.S. troops in the country was stationed during the Utah War.

Grafton Ghost Town

Rockville, UT

An abandoned 1859 settlement by the Virgin River, used as a set for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Heber Valley Railroad

Heber City, UT

A heritage railroad on an 1899 branch line, running vintage trains through Provo Canyon.

Lehi Roller Mills

Lehi, UT

A working flour mill built in 1906, still milling and known from the 1984 film Footloose.