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Salt Lake City Tour

Most popular tour of Salt Lake City for 44 years!

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The Best First Thing to do in SLC

  • Experience Salt Lake City’s top attractions and discover hidden gems

  • Fully-narrated by a local expert tour guide

  • Stories and entertainment you won’t get on your own

  • Travel effortlessly in a comfortable, air conditioned tour bus with large panoramic viewing windows


Quick Details

TIME: 10:00 am, Monday-Saturday

  • Additional times during summer season. See calendar for availability

Duration:  2.5 hours

Price:  $59.99 Adult  /  $30 child

Starting Location: Radisson Downtown Hotel - 215 W South Temple, SLC

  • Parking: available for a small fee in a public parking lot across the street (address of entrance is 50 John Stockton Drive)

 Tour Attraction Details:


TEMPLE SQUARE: a 35-acres of historic cathedrals and beautiful gardens

  • Salt Lake Tabernacle: home of the world renowned Tabernacle Choir and one of the largest pipe organs in the world

  • Salt Lake Temple: Utah’s most famous landmark

  • Gardens: Hundreds of thousands of plants of several hundred varieties

  • Family History Library: world’s largest genealogy library

  • Conference Center: 21,000 seats, one of the largest religious auditoriums in the world

  • Historic Hotel Utah: built in 1911 to be “the finest hotel west of the Mississippi”


CAPITOL HILL: stunning architecture and scenic views

  • Capitol: used for Hollywood movies to depict the U.S. Capitol; spectacular marble rotunda with 6,000 lb. chandelier!

  • Scenic overlook: spectacular views of Rocky Mountains and 500-square-mile Salt Lake Valley

  • Council Hall: City Hall of the Old West

  • Mormon Battalion Monument: historic 2,000 mile march

  • White Memorial Chapel: pioneer-era Mormon chapel overlooking the valley

  • Memory Grove: picturesque park featuring City Creek and memorials to Utah veterans


PIONEER HERITAGE STATE PARK: discover the history of the Old West

  • Mormon Pioneer Trail: 70,000 pioneers walked 1,300 miles

  • This is the Place monument: Mormon pioneers and explorers of the American West

  • Deseret Village: a living history pioneer village

  • Scenic overlook: mountain views, overlook of the entire valley and Great Salt Lake

  • Pony Express Monument: awe-inspiring statues and Pony Express station with a beautiful mountain backdrop


BRIGHAM YOUNG’S HISTORIC ESTATE: Utah's founder and one of America's greatest colonizers

  • Beehive House: stately home of Brigham Young, known as the “American Moses”

  • Lion House: historic home of “the Lion of the Lord”

  • Eagle Gate arch: Prominent 76-foot span arch with a 2-ton American eagle statue atop, marks the entrance to Brigham Young’s estate


BRIGHAM STREET HISTORIC MANSIONS DISTRICT: rated one of the "10 Great Streets of America"

  • Governor’s Mansion

  • Cathedral of the Madeleine: Roman Catholic headquarters in Utah

  • First Presbyterian Church: exquisite red sandstone and stained glass windows

  • Masonic Temple: Egyptian Revival architecture and mysterious sphinx statues, used for Hollywood movies and television shows

  • Mining Mansions: several other magnificent mansions built by silver and copper mining magnates a century ago


OTHER SLC ATTRACTIONS:

  • Historic Union Pacific Depot: one of the finest train stations in the Old West

  • Gateway Center & Olympic Legacy Plaza: “The Gateway to the City”

  • Pioneer Square and historic Rio Grande train station

  • Fort Douglas: a Civil-war era fort ignited a powder key of drama

  • Olympic Village and Stadium: hear stories from the most successful Winter Olympics ever

  • University of Utah: oldest state university west of Missouri River

  • Trolley Square: Union Pacific magnate E.H. Harriman built Salt Lake City a state-of-the-art trolley car system in 1908, refashioned with inspiration from Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco

  • Library Square: nationally recognized design

  • City Hall: beautiful Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture