Parks/Attractions
- Temple Square - awesome tourist attraction in Utah; a downtown religious campus for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called the LDS Church).
- Main Street Plaza - parcel of land that was once Main Street, which the LDS Church controversially bought to make a pedestrian thoroughfare and connect its major properties.
- Hogle Zoo - far east in the foothills. By most of the hospitals in North Salt Lake
- University of Utah - campus on east side of the city.
- Red Butte Garden and Arboretum - located in the foothills of Salt Lake City, has many exhibits and holds concerts in the summer.
- Salt Lake City Cemetery - Largest cemetery in Utah
- Gilgal Sculpture Garden - a small park featuring eccentric Mormonism-based stone carvings.
- Liberty Park - public park featuring an aviary and other attractions.
- Memory Grove - World War I and war dead memorial park.
- Sugar House Park - site of the first state prison, constructed for polygamists.
- International Peace Gardens - founded after World War II to promote peace. Located in Glendale.
- Utah Museum of Natural History
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“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)