Self-Guided Arts and Culture Tour

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Gallery Stroll
Galleries across Salt Lake will also be open for the Gallery Stroll as well for the public to meet artists and browse the exciting and thriving visual arts market in Salt Lake City. The event, as always, is free. Some sponsors offering special discounts and rates for those who participate in Gallery Stroll.

Highway 12 Driving Tour
Highway 12 branches eastward from Highway 89, just south of Panguitch, and runs through some of Utah's most beautiful scenery as it loops northward ending in Torrey. The route, among the most scenic in the state, winds through a dozen small towns and provides access to Bryce National Park, the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, the Escalante Canyons, Boulder Mountain and Capitol Reef National Park. Highway 12 is a nationally recognized Scenic Byway given the highest designation of All-American Road. more...
Summer 2007

Public Art Collection
Select cities and towns to view Utah's public art.

Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson's monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) is located on the Great Salt Lake. The artist used black basalt rocks and earth from the site to create a coil 1500 feet long and 15 feet wide that extends out counterclockwise into the changing pink, red, blue, or cloudy white water.

Sanpete County Driving Tour
Sanpete Valley is located at the geographic heart of a region of the western United States long known by cultural anthropologists and other scholars as Mormon Country. The valley's pastoral landscape, well-preserved architecture, historical sites, cultural celebrations and expressions of Scandinavian heritage regularly bring visitors to the area. Both tourists and armchair travelers to Sanpete will enjoy experiencing Sanpete culture. more . . .

Things To Do (Travel Council)
Utahns, regardless of varied ethnic and religious backgrounds, share a sense that Utah's past is an important part of the state's future. From early settlement days, the cultural arts have been an important component of cities and towns across the state. Today, this tradition remains. Many communities produce pageants, plays and other events that showcase Utah's culture and heritage. Some of these productions have religious or historical themes, some are satirical and poke fun at our unique culture.

Utah: A Guide to the State
Utah: A Guide to the State is a publication of self-guided tours and written vignettes of eight different regions of the state of Utah. Published by GIBBS-SMITH, Publisher and the Utah: A Guide to the State Foundation. The first edition was done as part of the WPA in the 40's, the 2nd Edition in 1982, the 3rd edition in 1998. Contact your local bookstore or www.GIBBS-SMITH.COM or (800) 748-5439 for your copy of the 3rd edition of "Utah: A Guide to the State."