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Tour Temple Square’s beautiful flower gardens on the Salt Lake City Tour or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & City Tour with City Sights for breathtaking photo opportunities. The design of the Temple Square’s gardens include formal French parterres, Victorian flower baskets, and old-fashioned English cottage gardens in over 250 flower beds featuring 165,000 plants of 750 varieties from all over the world. Gardens are frequently redesigned and replanted by hundreds of volunteers. 

The Lion House, a family home of Brigham Young’s, was built in 1856 just east of Main Street in Salt Lake City. Brigham was both the leader of the Mormon church and the first governor of the territory of Utah. Named after the lion statue above the front entryway, Brigham Young was known as “the Lion of the Lord.” The home is filled with antique furniture and is used for receptions and public dining. Enjoy a meal in Brigham Young’s dining room on the Salt Lake City Tour or the Thursday evening Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour. Reserve your seats on the sightseeing tour bus by visiting www.toursofutah.com or calling (801) 531-1001.

Temple Square comprises over 35 acres, it can take a while to explore on your own. Are you hoping to get some great photos on your vacation to Salt Lake City? Let us show you the best photo spots of the buildings and gardens during our Salt Lake City Tour or Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour. 

Temple Square’s tulips are in their final days, make sure you see them before they’re replaced with a new variety of flowers! Join the Salt Lake City Tour, Mormon Tabernacle Choir & City Tour, or the Trolley Tour of Salt Lake City for spectacular photo opportunities of the Temple Square gardens. Book your seat on the sightseeing tour bus or the Salt Lake Trolley.

The Utah Capitol is one of the most beautiful state capitol buildings in America. Modeled after the US Capitol, construction was completed 100 years ago this July. Local granite stone and copper can be seen on the exterior, with breathtaking Georgia marble found in the rotunda inside. Join us on the Trolley Tour of Salt Lake City, the deluxe Salt Lake City Tour, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & City Tour for spectacular photo opportunities of this striking century-old edifice!

Let the local experts guide you to the best photo spots of Salt Lake City’s top attractions and entertain you with the the most memorable and entertaining stories of this charming city. Join us on the Salt Lake City Tour or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & City Tour for such outstanding photo opportunities as this one. Temple Square is a sprawling 35-acre property that a new visitor could spend hours wandering. Make the most of your limited time in Salt Lake City by starting your trip with one of our sightseeing bus tours to help you experience only the best, and find those most interesting places that you may want to return to afterward. 

Tourists visiting Salt Lake City in the spring are in for a treat: photograph the snow-capped Wasatch mountains on the Salt Lake City Tour! In spring we can get light snow falling on the mountains, painting them white and providing a spectacular photo opportunity especially from the right spot. Snow will remain on the tops of these mountains for much of the summer most years, but springtime affords the most picturesque views with complete snow coverage on the mountains remaining temporarily after a small storm, while the valley remains green and vivid. For views like this, reserve your seat on the sightseeing tour bus for the Salt Lake City Tour or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour. Pictured above is a view seen on the Thursday evening Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour around sunset…the best time of day to photograph those mountains.

The Salt Lake City Tour takes you to such historic pioneer sights as the Brigham Young Farmhouse on the beautiful foothills of the mountains above Salt Lake City. Built in 1863 and relocated to its current spot at This is the Place Heritage Park in 1976, the stucco farmhouse was a showplace of Brigham’s for foreign dignitaries and visiting guests. Brigham never lived in this house but he held square dances, musical performances, and dinner parties in the second-story ballroom of the home, which was designed in the tradition of New England inns. The adjacent farm was an agricultural experiment allowing them to test which crops would grow in the unfamiliar desert climate and soil of Utah. They grew alfalfa, sugar beets, mulberry seedlings, raised silkworms, and served as the dairy farm for Brigham’s family.

Hear the world-famous Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle organ recital on Temple Square during the Salt Lake City Tour. Or enjoy the Tabernacle organ as it complements the voices of the 360 choristers of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on the Thursday evening Mormon Tabernacle Choir Rehearsal & City Tour or the Sunday morning Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert & City Tour.  Located in the historic Tabernacle building on Salt Lake City’s Temple Square, the organ was built by an English convert to the Mormon church, Joseph Ridges. Though the original casework and some of the original pipes are found in the Tabernacle organ today, it has actually been rebuilt and enlarged multiple times over the last 135 years. Currently the organ has 11,623 pipes organized into 147 tone colors and 206 ranks or rows of pipes! The pipes are made of wood, zinc, lead…

The neoclassical dome of the Utah State Capitol has an architectural element that has become a common symbol of democracy in the United States.  The outer dome towers over 250 feet from the base of the front stairs.  The shell of the dome is made of Utah’s own copper, installed in 1980, to replace the original copper covering after portions were blown off in a heavy windstorm. In the background is the Kennecott Utah Copper Mine, where 25% of America’s copper is produced.  Book online to see the Utah Capitol on the Salt Lake City Tour or see the Kennecott Utah Bingham Canyon Copper Mine on our Copper Mine & Great Salt Lake Tour.

Hear about the fascinating stories and strange science of America’s Dead Sea on the Great Salt Lake Tour, daily at 2:30 PM; pickup from downtown Salt Lake City hotels. Visit the old mysterious Saltair beach resort, left high and dry on the salty beaches of Great Salt Lake. Enjoy the panoramic views of the lake, its islands, and the surrounding mountains at Great Salt Lake State Park Marina and Visitors Center. Dip a toe in the saltiest lake in the western hemisphere. How can you visit Salt Lake City and not take a trip to the famous Great Salt Lake?!

Music & the Spoken Word is the longest continuously running network broadcast in the world. Since 1929, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has been entertaining and inspiring audiences with a live broadcast every Sunday morning.  Reserve your seats on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Tour online or by calling (801) 531-1001. Sunday mornings include a live concert and Thursday evenings feature the Choir’s rehearsal.