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Welcome to "Salt Lake City...A Glance", our Official Online Edition. Our Salt Lake City travel planner provides detailed tourist information for the Salt Lake City area. Browse our pages to learn more about beautiful city before you visit. Our 'Salt Lake City...A Glance' publication is an actual visitor guide for the city of Salt Lake, so pick up your free copy at any hotel in the Salt Lake Valley. An overview of Salt Lake...Salt Lake City is the Utah state capital and seat of Salt Lake County. Located in the north central part of the state, it is 24 km (15 miles) east of the Great Salt Lake, and is situated along the western slope of the Wasatch Mountain Range. The Salt Lake Valley was once part of ancient Lake Bonneville. Now, only a few rivers pass through our city. Salt Lake City is the Worldwide Headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Genealogy Research: Family History Library Salt Lake is Utah's largest city in a large region of the interior west and serves as the industrial, financial, and commercial center of Utah. Salt Lake City welcomed the world by hosting the 2002 Winter Games. Salt Lake City has a dry climate, with only 411 mm (16.2 in) of precipitation per year. However, the Wasatch Mountain Range are well watered, and the runoff is used to water the valley. The average July daytime-nighttime temperature range in the city is 33° to 18° C (92° to 64° F), and the average January range is 2° to -7° C (36° to 19° F). Salt Lake's Fun Side is definetly downtown and your ticket to great food, entertainment, culture, live sports, family fun and a restful nights sleep. For whatever reason you've been told you're going to Salt Lake City, whether it be business related, a meeting or convention, ski vacation or for LDS religious reasons, you can experience the thrill of a professional sporting event or the fast pace of Nascar while you are here. You can also discover the sport of curling, play a round of golf, ice skate, attend outdoor concers in the mountains or our symphony, ballet and opera. It's all here when you visit Salt Lake's Fun Side, Downtown! Downtown Salt Lake City is noted for its wide streets and spacious blocks, a legacy of the Mormon settlers who laid out the city in 1847. The city was built on a grid system based on the four streets bordering Temple Square, the focus of the downtown area. Inside Temple Square is the Mormon Temple, which took 40 years to build—from 1853 to 1893. Other important sites to visit are the Mormon Tabernacle, the State Capitol, the Salt Lake City and County Building, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine, the Salt Lake Visitor Bureau, the Olympic Speed Skating Oval, and the 2002 Olympic Cauldron. Trax light rail was completed in 2001 and provides quick access from one area of the valley to the next although a vehicle is still the choice of transportation means. The Salt Lake City International Airport is just minutes west of downtown city center. Thirteen blocks west of Temple Square lies the Utah State Fair Grounds, and the Utah state capitol building stands slightly to the north. South of Temple Square is the city's central business district with many fabulous hotels. The main campus of the University of Utah is just fifteen blocks east of city center. Official Websites of every hotel in downtown Salt Lake City Did You Know? The Great Salt Lake is roughly 75 miles long and almost 35 miles wide, and covers more than a million acres. It is almost 2,100 square miles, with an average depth of 13 feet. But the deepest point is only 34 feet. The name “Utah” comes from the Native American “Ute” tribe and means people of the mountains. Utah covers 84,900 square miles of land and is the 11th largest state in the United States. Utah was acquired by the United States in 1848 in the treaty ending the Mexican War. The town of Beaver in Southern Utah is the birthplace of two very famous individuals of the past, Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television and Butch Cassidy, the notorious western outlaw. The Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City took 40 years to complete. The Mormon Temples in St. George, Manti and Logan, Utah were completed before the Salt Lake Temple. Utah is the site of our nations first department store. ZCMI as it was called was established in the late 1800’s. On May 10, 1869 the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined their rails at Promontory Summit which is now Brigham City in Northern Utah. Golden Spike National Historic Site commemorates this incredible accomplishment of this nation's first transcontinental railroad. On average, Utah mountain peaks are the tallest in the country. The average elevation of the tallest peaks in each of Utah’s counties is 11,222 ft., which is higher than the same average in any other state. Because of Utah’s inland location, the snow is usually dry. Earning its reputation for having the "Greatest Snow on Earth" for skiing. There are 13 alpine ski resorts that operate in Utah. And four within 25 minutes of the Salt Lake valley. We are very proud to be able to bring you this Salt Lake City Visitor Guide and Vacation Planner. We hope these links, and the information within are useful to you, and we sincerely hope that you find everything you are looking for. Enjoy Salt Lake City and Utah as much as we do! 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