View My Personal Photo Albums of Temple Square Spring Flowers, Temple Square Christmas Lights, and Sundance Film Festival
If you are planning to visit or relocate to Salt Lake City Utah like we did, you might be amazed at the little known facts and tourist trivia about the Beehive State. The beehive symbolizes thrift and industry in Utah. The name Utah, meaning people of the mountains, comes from the Native American Ute Indian Tribe, also responsible for the names of the Uinta mountain range and Wasatch mountain range near Salt Lake City. Wasatch means, "low place in a high mountain."Utah mountain peaks are the tallest in the country, on average. The average elevation of the highest peaks in Utah counties is 11,222 feet with an average annual snowfall of 500 inches. Utah's 14 Alpine ski resorts have the reputation of the world's greatest powder because the inland location has unusually dry snow. During WWII, paratroopers trained on the Alta ski center slopes located about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Spring Flowers, Christmas Lights, and Family History at Salt Lake Temple Square
801-240-2534
50 W North Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Forbes Magazine listed Salt Lake Temple Square as the 16th most visited attraction in America. The Salt Lake Temple Square has thousands of spring flowers in bloom from late April to early May. Among my favorites are the hyacinths, tulips, daffodils and irises. Each year, hundreds of volunteers remove thousands of tulip bulbs from the ground to preserve them for the next season and then replant them when the time is right.
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Salt Lake Temple Spring Flowers: Hyacinth Heaven
At Christmas, the Salt Lake Temple Square is adorned with over 300,000 Christmas lights accenting the many holiday spiritual and nativity ground scenes. I have never seen anything so spectacular at Christmas. Thousands of visitors walk the streets and the grounds, enjoying caroling and decorations while strolling through the snow. It is a scene right out of a Thomas Kinkade holiday painting.
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Salt Lake Temple Square Christmas Lights: A Hallelujah Holiday
- Forbes Magazine listed Salt Lake Temple Square as the 16th most visited attraction in America.
- Utah's Heber Valley Railroad steam train has been used in over 31 films during the last 20 years.
- On average, Utah mountain peaks are the tallest in America and receive 500 inches of annual snow.
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