Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons
· winter
Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, and Solitude — four resorts, one canyon road each.
salt-lake-city
Mountain capital.
Salt Lake City is the gateway: an international airport 25 minutes from four ski resorts, a food scene that has quietly gotten very good, and canyons that start where the neighborhoods end. Most Utah trips start and end here.
Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, and Solitude — four resorts, one canyon road each.
Free tours, gardens, and the organ recital at the Tabernacle.
A building built into the foothills, with the best dinosaur collection in the West.
A twenty-minute climb from a city street to a full valley panorama.
Shade, playgrounds, and birds — the reset stop with kids mid-road-trip.
The mole is the reason people wait outside. Two locations, both busy.
Sushi worth planning your evening around; get there before it opens.
Nashville hot chicken downtown with a line out the door at noon.
A 1930s trolley car up Emigration Canyon serving mile-high biscuits.