Top Things to do in Wasatch Range
Top Hotels in Wasatch Range
- 1. Black Rock Mountain Resort
- 2. Park City Peaks Hotel
- 3. Best Western Plus Landmark Inn
- 4. Hyatt Place Provo
- 5. Hotel Park City, Autograph Collection
- 6. Hyatt Centric Park City
- 7. Westgate Park City Resort & Spa
- 8. Hampton Inn & Suites Ogden
- 9. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Park City - The Yarrow
- 10. Newpark Resort
Top 10 Things to do Good for Couples in Wasatch Range, Wasatch Range
Stretching 160 miles through Utah, the Wasatch Range makes a rugged, glacial backdrop for the 85% of the states population living within 15 miles. Mount Nebo is highest at 11,928 feet, but the peaks around Alta and Park City are most popular. "The greatest snow on earth" falls on these spectacular slopes. Lone Peaks granite outcrops provide top climbing. Canyons and valleys are loved by fly-fishermen and hikers. After all that adventure, retire to a hip restaurant or enticing hot tub in chic Park City.
Restaurants in Wasatch Range
1. Hale Centre Theatre
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 100 reviews
Hale Centre Theatre (HCT) is Utah's Premiere Family Theatre whose mission is to provide afforadable world-class family theatre and theatre education for and by the community. HCT produces plays and musicals year-round in its center stage theatre. HCT opened in 1985 in South Salt Lake and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1997 in preparation to move to its current location in West Valley City in 1998. HCT provides theatre education programs as well as costume rentals.
2. Station Park
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 101 reviews
Reviewed By truthbyLG - Salt Lake City, United States
Very upscale and scenic. This is a large, multi-street, outside retail venue (think H&M and Sephora) that is especially beautiful and quaint at night due to the white twinkle lights, large fireplaces, benches, and overhead music. Many places are open late in here. Be prepared to walk a bit if you are retail shopping, unless you can find parking along the streets in front of the stores. Be sure not to miss the outstanding restaurants and eateries located deep within the retail area. The more common eateries like Panda Express and Chick Fil-A are located across the parking lot near the very popular Nordstrom Rack and Home Goods.
3. Guardsman Pass Scenic Backway
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 481 reviews
Reviewed By mlbourgeois
Wow, a Saturday morning drive on the Guardsman Pass between Park city and Salt Lake City is definitely an adventure. The beauty is incredible. The curves, cliffs and bikers make it very challenging but fun. Lots of pull offs,hikers and bikers.
4. Provo Canyon
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 205 reviews
Reviewed By G8769FVdougc - Powell, United States
Mere words don't begin to describe the incredible beauty my family and I enjoyed during our visit today. From the deer to the coyotes to the snow-capped mountains to the beautiful mountain falls, my family and I highly recommend taking the Alpine Scenic Highway. It was a day to take in some of God's greatest creations.
5. Uinta National Forest
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By jonquilias - Kissimmee, United States
it was amazing in this place and loved the views we could climb to recommend this to any family and see the views from the mountains was amazing
6. Logan Canyon Scenic Drive
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 68 reviews
Reviewed By donh941 - Kirkland, United States
Fall colors here were magnificent. Especially the aspen and the bigtooth maples. Highly recommend this drive during the week on a clear fall day.
7. Canyons Village at Park City
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,244 reviews
This area, formerly known as Park West, is the closest to Park City and the former site of the Olympic Games.
Reviewed By tinadeg - Garden City, United States
This area consists of several hotels, GrandSummit, Westgate and Sundial, there is DBB burgers, Edge steak house, Murdocks pizza, ice cream and Starbucks, Umbrella Bar, ski rentals, a marketplace with small amount of grocery items, and about 6-7 clothing stores, mostly ski items, there is outside seating with fire pits near ticket booth and a gondola that takes you from hotel to bus depot (7-eleven is there also).
8. Deer Valley Resort
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2,563 reviews
Deer Valley Resort welcomes our guests back to the slopes for our 40th Anniversary. While things will feel different during your visit to Deer Valley this winter, our dedication to providing an exceptional guest service experience remains the same. Winter Season Dates: December 5, 2020 - April 11, 2021, conditions permitting.
Reviewed By natewb17 - New York City, United States
Deer Valley is just the best place to ski in the entire world. The best staff, tissue boxes at every lift line, fast moving lift lines, tons of variety in slopes (many greens, blues, and blacks), perfectly groomed slopes, nice ski school program, and amazing food. Everything at Deer Valley is perfect! This is why I keep coming back year after year, due to the fact that it is flawless and the best mountain in the entire world. I love coming here! (*When staying here, a great place to stay is The Lodges at Deer Valley)
9. Evermore Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 30 reviews
Evermore is an Experience Park: a place to explore, wonder, and discover. We are a blend of theme park, events, thrills, and theatrics. Come visit us and immerse yourself in a world of adventure where you can live in an incredible story, and even build your own! Each season is tied to a festival with two main components, one theatrical and one where guests roam the park freely similar to more traditional theme parks. In the theatrical portion, guests experience an immersive story full of high-end tech and visual effects that plays out across our fifteen acre park full of Victorian-inspired buildings and gardens. Come witness what lies beyond our gates and create unforgettable memories for the entire family.
Reviewed By jhanes45 - Brigham City, United States
Our family attended Evermore “Aurora” which takes place during the winter. My wife and I went with 3 children ages 6, 4 and 3, as part of a larger group of extended family. It was between 30 and 25 degrees while we were there. Come ready for cold weather. We had our kids bundled like they were going sledding, and the weather didn’t bother us one bit. There was a holiday theme with lights and a Charles Dickens Christmas Carol sub-theme. A large portion of the park was closed off because of the “Christmas Carol” performance. The park was very immersive in its atmosphere and setting, really giving the feeling of transporting yourself to another time. During “Aurora” the park hours were from 5 to 10 PM, and though this made for a better view of the Christmas lights, in general it made everything else very difficult to see. We found ourselves being pretty let down that we couldn’t see the actual craftsmanship of the setting itself as soon as the sun went down. There were many lights on one end of the park, and very few on the other making it difficult to navigate around for someone new to the park, and even worse for someone with 3 small children and large crowds. If you're planning on coming with smaller children that aren’t trapped in a stroller, be prepared to brave a theme park atmosphere in the dark with wandering kids. It was stressful at times, but we managed it decently. Once you arrive you’re given a brochure with a map of the park and a blue dotted line to follow if you’re a first time visitor. I would strongly encourage following this line because it will allow you to hit all the main attractions in the park, while giving opportunities to sidetrack if you find something that peaks your interest. One potential issue with the park is that it is very open ended as to how you want to participate. You can choose to have an experience similar to a zoo or museum where you simply walk from exhibit to exhibit and possibly participate in an activity or two, then move to the next until you’ve finished the blue dotted line. If you did this you would do the activities in following order: archery, axe throwing, puppet show, photo opportunity near a fountain, foam sword combat, fire performers, train ride, and a bird and reptile show. Along the way you’d be in a unique and beautiful fantasy setting surrounded by interesting characters. For most family outings this would be a fantastic evening, and if you stuck to this plan you’d likely have a wonderful time. Stopping to get some food and eating around one of the outdoor open fires would be a great finish to outing. The Fire performers, and the puppet show would’ve been the highlight of our visit. Ice skating would be one other activity that would be high on the priorities of a normal family, but I didn’t include it because it was not available at the time of our attendance. Regardless, the frozen pond served as a beautiful backdrop for the center of the park, and were it to have had ice skaters on it the look would’ve been all the more magical. As it stood, our kids were too young to have participated, so it wasn’t that big a let down. Coming back to the possible difficulty of the open ended nature of the park, if you were to follow the blue line and participate in the zoo or museum style, your family likely would have a very positive experience, but at its core Evermore strives to be more than a beautiful walking path with some fun activities along the way. The other way to participate in Evermore can best be summarized to me as a real-life fantasy roleplaying game. You enter the “world” as a “world-walker” looking to join guilds, accomplish quests, learn the stories of the characters and the world itself, and to find ways to make Evermore a better place. This kind of experience is entirely unique to the typical “theme” park or museum experience, but comes with it several things to consider. First, there are varying degrees of commitment to this style. You will notice participants dressed in normal clothes, speaking normal, simply trying to complete quests and not thinking much of it. At the same time you’ll see others that have completely embraced the “world” as it were. They are dressed in high fantasy costumes, may speak with accents, and commonly attend Evermore on a semi-regular basis. These participants fully embrace the role-playing component of Evermore. They are essentially part of the “world,” and may interact with you as such. We did have a few moments of confusion as we assumed that some of these more committed park goers were actual members of the staff. They dress like staff, and spoke like staff, so it’s an easy mistake. To add to this confusion, some actually function in a pseudo-volunteer role by facilitating different activities, giving information for quests, or interacting with you in ways that normal staff members would (as if they themselves are a character in the story of Evermore). Some of the members of our group saw this as drifting a bit too far outside of their comfort zone. For them, cast members approaching you while speaking in accents, giving quests, and selling the story, as it were, was fine, but the same actions by random park-goers was uncomfortable at times. How deeply you choose to participate in this element of Evermore is completely up to you, but in my opinion a bit of open mindedness and leaving of your comfort zone can really go a long way in adding to the experience. The quests are structured through eight different guilds. You have the opportunity to join any of the guilds as an “initiate” and to do so you must speak with the guild leaders and find out the requisite quests to join. Some of the quests are physical tasks that must be done throughout the park; others involve interacting with other characters. One struggle that we had in completing the quests that involved interacting with other characters was that not all of the characters seemed to be on the same page as to what we were supposed to be asking them. They were friendly, but not overly helpful in completing the quest. So we just kept talking to anyone we saw that was a staff member until someone knew what we were talking about. For one quest we likely spoke to six different cast members until we found someone who knew what we were talking about and how to help us. This experience was fun for me, boring for my kids, and frustrating for the other adults in our group. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and to hear pieces of their story, but most of that story was beyond what my young kids could understand, and too unrelated to our goal of finishing the quest for some in our group. In the end we were able to become initiates in one of the guilds. A word of advice, the initiation ceremony at the stage was a much more fun experience then the individual initiations we saw taking place at the different guilds we passed by. If you start the quests to join a guild ask when the stage initiation is, so that you can know the time frame to be able to go on stage. Our kids thought this was a blast. Moving forward, we could return again to try and reach higher ranks in the guild or to join another guild. We had some concerns that it might’ve been too scary for our kids based on a YouTube video that we saw, but we called and the park staff assured us that nothing in the park during the Aurora setting was there to intentionally scare anyone. Apparently the Halloween season, Lore, is the scary one. I will say that although nothing from Evermore: Aurora itself was scary for young kids the staff should’ve mentioned that the other guests themselves may be wearing scary costumes. There was one individual that was wearing a very haunted house style costume that we intentionally avoided throughout our visit. Food was pretty expensive, but we had some soup in bread bowls that was awesome. We wouldn’t do the bread bowl again, felt like we hardly got any soup because the holes in the bread bowls were so small. The soup itself was great though. Train ended up breaking down while we were riding it which was a real downer because, as I mentioned before, during the Aurora setting a large part of the park was closed off for a walking “Christmas Carol.” The only way to have seen those parts of the park was from the train and it would’ve been a lot of fun for the kids. It also would’ve been a fun way to see the lights. We did get a refund, but I think it would’ve been a major highlight. Conclusion: If you’re taking a young family show up early to beat crowds, bundle the kiddos, and follow the blue dots, hit the main attractions, maybe try to join a guild if it feels like you’re able to accomplish it quickly while still hitting the main attractions. If you get bogged down with the quest stuff drop it, and just move to the next main attraction. Eat something around one of the fire pits. Kids will have a blast. If you’re feeling adventurous and don’t have young kids to cater too, jump right into the quests. See if you can join several guilds. Get out of your comfort zone a little, talk to the characters, learn about the world, and probably plan on going ice skating if it’s available. Not feeling adventurous, don’t feel like getting out of your comfort zone, and no kiddos? Follow the blue line, ignore the quests and guilds, hit the main attractions, get something to eat, go ice skating. Still an awesome evening.
10. Antelope Island State Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,203 reviews
A beautiful park located on the largest of the Great Salt Lakes islands; features lots of white-sand beaches, hiking and biking trails in addition to a variety of flora and fauna, including deer, bob cats, and of course, antelopes.
Reviewed By NordEdKim2019
We went to hike Antelope Island and picked the 33 Bison Roundup!Started by crossing the 7.5 mile causeway onto an amazing, serene and beautiful island.The Park Service staff greeted us with smiles and pride for their island home. At first bison grazed while cowboys and cowgals mounted their beautiful horses. Soon bison realized riders were near and started slowly but picked up speed;to a run.Huge beasts racing along the shoreline and up a ridge heading for the corral. Park employees wisely kept visitors safe and away from charging bison. After the roundup we hiked Buffalo Trail and saw sweeping views of the Grear Salt Lake.It was a memorable day and location I will never forget.Minutes from downtown Salt Lake; vast wilderness beauty.
