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Show salt lake county PTf) 1 ' 3- - W 4S m0i Just outside the city, thirty minutes away by car, are the fine recreational resources of Utahs Wasatch Mountains. Here youll find a mountain playground sheltering some of the best ski areas in the world. Alta, Brighton and Solitude. In summer these areas offer green alpine beauty, lofty peaks, cool streams, good fishing, small lakes, great hiking, campgrounds, picnic groves, small settlements such as Silver Fork in Big Cottonwood Canyon, popular recreation centers such as Brighton, you name it. Just leave your horse down in the valley. The Wasatch range supplies Salt Lake City with its drinking water. Horses are forbidden on the watershed. Though you can rent horses at stables in Salt Lake, with lots of room to roam in the foothills. If you prefer nightlife, there are clubs and private" clubs that are not really private and Utahs Valley Music Hall in North Salt Lake, a theatre-rounseating nearly 3,000 people where top stars perform in comedies, dramas and great musicals year round. There are many excellent restaurants also in the Salt Lake metroSee "The Guide's politan area. dining out section. Truth is, whatever your tastes or interests, Salt Lake valley provides an entertainment to fulfill them. Stay awhile. And then hurry back. Utah has everything, and this brief guide will help you discover it. It will lead you through a land of contrast almost beyond belief, through a lake dotted, mountain studded world of high alpine charm, through a flaming red fock desertland whose crimson monuments toom into the most vast silence youll ever experience. It will open up breathtaking views, explain the sudden charm of quaint country towns, guide you through one of the Wests most metropolitan cities. Because all this, and more, is Utah. |