Utah
Places in Utah worth the detour, from town festivals, u-pick farms, and lookouts & cabins, each compiled from its own sources with season, fees, and directions.
Towns: Delta, Spanish Fork, Heber City. All the towns of Utah.
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Hot Springs
- Crystal Hot SpringsHot springs resortCrystal Hot Springs with multiple mineral pools, water slides, and Olympic pool; year-round operation with camping services discontinued.
- Fifth Water Hot Springs (Diamond Fork)Spanish Fork · Geothermal hot springs with soaking pools and waterfallsA tranquil trail to geothermal hot springs and scenic waterfalls, located just outside the town of Spanish Fork in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest; a 4.5-mile round-trip trek around the Diamond Fork River to a double waterfall and vibrant spring pools.
- Gandy Warm SpringsGandy · Warm springs; desert oasisA spectacular desert oasis of crystal-clear streams, little waterfalls, lukewarm pools, and caves, with approximately 9,000 gallons of water flowing from it every minute.
- Saratoga Hot Springs (Inlet Park)Saratoga Springs · Hot springNatural hot springs on the edge of Utah Lake, accessed via the Inlet Park trailhead.
- Three Forks Trailhead (Fifth Water Hot Springs)Spanish Fork · TrailheadThe most heavily used trail to the Fifth Water Hot Springs.
Swimming Holes
- Homestead CraterMidway · Natural geothermal springA warm spring inside a 55-foot limestone dome at Homestead in Midway, Utah, reached by a tunnel blasted in 1996, where divers go 65 feet down in 90-degree water.
- Ken's LakeMoab · Swimming siteKen's Lake, constructed from 1979 to 1981, is an approximately 2,610 acre-feet reservoir located in the upper Spanish Valley.
- Sand Hollow State ParkHurricane · State parkLocated at the south end of the park, the store has ATV’s, UTV’s, kayaks, paddle boards and more for those of all ages, shapes and sizes!
Trailheads
- Corona Arch TrailheadMoab · Out-and-back hikeA three-mile round-trip hike off Utah 279 near Moab, by cables and a ladder over slickrock, to a 140-foot Navajo Sandstone span once famed for a rope swing.
- Little Wild Horse TrailheadTrailheadLittle Wild Horse and Bell Canyons, one of the most popular slot canyons in Utah, within the Muddy Creek Wilderness.
Rockhounding
- Black Spring obsidian collectingBlack Rock Desert · Obsidian collecting areaApproximately 2.5 million years ago (late Tertiary Period), volcanic eruptions in the Black Spring area of the Black Rock Desert in western Utah spewed out the volcanic rocks rhyolite, pumice, and obsidian. Obsidian is a dark-colored volcanic glass formed when molten lava cools quickly. It is usually black but colored varieties range from brown to red. Snowflake obsidian, a black obsidian with whitish-gray spots (spherulites) of radiating needle-shaped cristobalite (high-temperature quartz) crystals, is also found in the Black Rock Desert.
- Crystal Peak quartz collectingDelta · Rockhounding siteIn the Crystal Peak area you can find very small white quartz crystals.
- Dugway Geode BedsRockhounding hotspotA geode bed on federal land in the north end of Juab County, Utah, where anyone may dig quartz-lined volcanic bubbles out of soft gray ground, free and without a permit.
- Fossil MountainDelta · Peak on the south end of the confusion rangeFossil Mountain is a 6,729-foot peak about 50 miles southwest of Delta, Utah, where collectors pick Ordovician trilobites and brachiopods from the surface of its slopes and washes.
- Rock Corral Recreation Area smoky quartzMilford · Day use recreation areaThe Rock Corral Recreation Area is day use recreation area located 10 miles east of Milford on the west slope of the Mineral Mountains. Nestled at the head of Corral Canyon, the site is one of the most scenic in the Cedar City Field Office. With its location being off major travel routes, the area is truly a hidden gem among Utah Public Lands. It includes a day use area offering spectacular views, rest rooms, sheltered tables, fire pits, and parking.
- Sunstone KnollDelta · Knoll formed of volcanic vents (early pleistocene eruptions)Sunstone is a transparent, yellowish labradorite (a plagioclase feldspar mineral) found as crystals in these volcanic rocks and on the flats surrounding the knoll.
- Topaz Mountain Rockhound Recreation AreaDelta · Rockhound recreation areaSome of the most productive and diverse rockhound areas in the west; visitors can collect a variety of topaz and crystals, with trilobite beds at Antelope Springs and geode beds near Dugway nearby.
Gem Mining
- A New Dig Fossils QuarryDelta · Owner-run paleontological trilobite fee dig (wheeler shale quarry)A fee dig at Antelope Springs in Utah's House Range, where Clay Holman's excavator turns up Wheeler Shale for visitors and once turned up an animal found nowhere else.
- Gem.tours fee digs (Solar Wind & Searle Canyon mines)Delta · Private gem mine dig operatorGem.tours sells guided fee digs at five world-famous mines in Utah's West Desert near Delta; visitors keep what they find.
- U-Dig Fossils Trilobite QuarryDelta · Trilobite quarryHosts visitors from around the world to excavate trilobites and other Cambrian fossils from within our rich Wheeler Shale.
Spring Water
- Artesian Well ParkSalt Lake City · ParkA small pocket park at 800 South and 500 East in Salt Lake City, built around an artesian well that flows without a pump and fills jugs for people from across the Wasatch Front.
- Kristin SpringOgden · SpringIt's piped into a pool that runs downhill through the forest.
- Matrimony SpringMoab · SpringSmall cove right off river road, leaving Moab. just a few minutes from town. There is spout coming right out of the mountain. Water tastes amazing! icy cold, pure spring water, great place to refill all bottles.
- Old La Sal SpringLa Sal · SpringThere is a small barn in the field and right in front of it is a fence with piping and a plastic hose with the spring water gushing out into a cement base with a drain into the ground.
- The Stump Bi-Centennial Well
Scenic Drives
- Energy Loop Scenic BywayFairview · National scenic bywayA forked national scenic byway out of Fairview, Utah, that climbs the Wasatch Plateau past coal mines, a power plant, and the reservoir where a mammoth surfaced in 1988.
- Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic BywayManila · National scenic bywayA national scenic byway climbing from Vernal over the Uinta Mountains' eastern flank to Manila and Flaming Gorge Dam, its roadside signs marking rock formations nearly every hundred yards.
- Scenic Byway 12Escalante · All-american roadA 120-mile All-American Road in southern Utah connecting Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and Capitol Reef National Park.
- Smithsonian Butte National Back Country BywayRockville · Back country bywayA 9.25-mile Back Country Byway between Rockville and Apple Valley, Utah, just south of Zion National Park. Carries visitors from the Virgin River floodplain, through pinyon-juniper woodlands, to sagebrush desert at the Big Plain Junction of Highway 59.
- Utah's Patchwork Parkway Scenic BywayParowan to Panguitch · National scenic byway (s.r. 143)Every bend in the road brings into vision a new patch of scenery from colorful rocky cliffs and spires, alpine forests, lush meadows with rambling streams, crystal blue lakes and an unexpected splash of lava fields amidst the towering aspen trees.
Train Rides
Roadside Attractions
- Big John StatueHelper · Fiberglass statueAn 18-foot fiberglass coal miner, glossy black, on Helper's Main Street in Utah, made in 1964 from a Paul Bunyan mold with a pick in place of the axe.
- Dinah the Pink DinosaurVernal · 40-foot pink dinosaur statueA 40-foot candy-pink fiberglass brontosaurus on US-40 at the east end of Vernal, Utah, built in 1958 to draw motel trade and listed on the National Register in 2023.
- Hole N" The RockMoab · Roadside attractionA 5,000-square-foot home carved into a sandstone cliff on US 191 south of Moab, with a bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt cut into the rock above it.
- Metaphor: The Tree of UtahWendover · Abstract artistic sculpture87-foot-tall sculpture created by the Swedish artist Karl Momen in the 1980s and dedicated in 1986, on the west bound side of Interstate 80, about 25 miles east of Wendover. The trunk holds up six spheres coated with natural rock and minerals native to Utah.
- World's Largest Fishing FlyDutch John · Roadside attractionThe coolest, neatest and down right Rad, road side attraction this side of the East coast. The world's largest fly fishing fly.
Lookouts & Cabins
- Aquarius Guard StationLoa · Ranger stationA two-room cabin the Civilian Conservation Corps built in 1937 on the west side of Boulder Mountain, south of Loa, Utah, now rented to overnight guests at 8,700 feet.
- Blacksmith Fork Guard StationHyrum · Forest service cabin rentalA 1934 New Deal guard station on the Left Hand Fork above Hyrum, Utah, rescued from near-demolition by volunteers and rented by the night with propane light and no running water.
- Gooseberry Administrative Site CabinsSalina · Group standard nonelectricThe Gooseberry Administrative Site, Forest Service summer headquarters from 1907 to 1960, stands in the aspens southeast of Salina, Utah, and is now rented whole to groups of up to fifty sleepers.
- Indian Creek Guard StationFerron · Guard stationA Civilian Conservation Corps ranger cabin from 1933 on the shore of Ferron Reservoir in central Utah, built by local men and now rented to overnight guests.
- Ledgefork Guard StationKamas · Historic forest service cabinLedgefork Guard Station is located just above Smith and Morehouse Reservoir on the western edge of the Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing and exploring the Smith and Morehouse Trail.
- Mammoth Cabin (and Lake Cabin)Fairview · Forest service ranger cabin rentalA 1930s Forest Service ranger and fire crew dwelling, moved to the Mammoth Guard station site from its original location in the 1980s; one of two cabins on the Manti-La Sal National Forest.
- Mill Hollow Guard StationKamas · Cabin siteA drive-in, nonelectric cabin site for overnight use, with two bedrooms and beds for up to 8 people.
- Mirror Lake Guard StationKamas · Historic forest service cabinHistoric Forest Service cabin at Mirror Lake just off the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway through the Uinta Mountains, known for abundant recreational opportunities and scenic beauty.
- Mt Terrill Guard StationSalina · Cabin rentalA rustic two room cabin on the Fishlake National Forest in central Utah about 30 miles southeast of Salina.
- Payson Lakes Guard StationPayson · Guard stationCabin offered for advance reservation so visitors can enjoy an experience similar to that of early Forest Rangers and their families.
- Podunk Guard StationPanguitch · Two-room cabinPodunk Guard Station is located next to the East Fork Sevier River, in the Dixie National Forest in southern Utah. The cabin was constructed in 1928 and has been used by generations of Forest Service employees. Guests enjoy exploring local trails on foot, horseback, mountain bike and off-road vehicle. The river offers fishing and swimming opportunities.
- Soldier Creek Vacation CabinHeber City · Large vacation cabinVacation house sleeps 16; one queen bedroom, one with two singles, four bunk rooms; ADA bathroom on main floor, community-style bathroom and shower on top floor; gathering area with sofas and chairs, TV and DVD player.
- Trout Creek Guard StationVernal · Guard stationCCC-built guard station in the Trout Creek area, 21 miles west of US Highway 191 near Vernal, in the Ashley National Forest.
Ghost Towns
Observatories
Bookstores
- Back of Beyond BooksMoabA literary oasis in the desert since 1990, we are a little bookstore with a big selection of new, used, and rare titles. Inspired by the name of Seldom Seen Smith's outfitting company and hideout spot in Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, Back of Beyond Books keeps that spirit of exploration and discovery alive for locals and visitors alike.
- Central Book ExchangeSalt Lake City · Used bookstoreLocal used bookstore in the Sugar House area of Salt Lake City, Utah, stocking used books including rare and out-of-print titles, with an exchange system that converts trade-ins into points redeemable against purchases, mail-order phone ordering, and parking in the adjacent Sterling Furniture lot.
- Dolly's BookstorePark City · Independent staple of the historic park city main street communityAn independent staple of the Historic Park City Main Street community connecting customers with books and gifts, open 7 days a week.
- Pioneer BookProvoWith 45 years in the book business, we understand your book-browsing needs. It's our mission to provide a magical browsing experience. Our booksellers are passionate about books!
- The Book BungalowSt. George · Independent bookstoreThe only bookstore in the St. George metro area offering a curated collection of only new books and all the events associated with literary life.
- The King's English BookshopSalt Lake City
- The Printed GardenSandyTraditional brick and mortar bookstore in Sandy's Historic Union Square shopping plaza with coffee for guests and a combination of new, rare, signed, and gently used secondhand books.
Factory Tours
- Benson Grist MillStansbury Park · Historic siteAn 1854 water-powered mill in the heart of the Tooele Valley offering agricultural history, architectural beauty, and community spirit.
- Heber Valley Artisan CheeseMidway · Family-owned, farm-to-table creameryA fourth-generation Kohler dairy in Midway, Utah, that began turning its own herd's milk into cheese in 2011 and now ages some wheels for up to ten years.
- Holdman StudiosLehi · Glass studioA stained, painted, and blown art glass studio on the Thanksgiving Point campus in Lehi, Utah, begun in a family garage by an artist with a severe stutter.
- Jones Hole National Fish HatcheryVernal · National fish hatcheryA federal trout hatchery at the dead end of Jones Hole Road, 40 miles northeast of Vernal, Utah, fed by a canyon spring that runs 54 degrees all year.
- This Is The Place Heritage ParkSalt Lake City · Living-history state parkA 450-acre living-history state park at the base of Emigration Canyon in Salt Lake City, built around the 60-foot monument marking where Brigham Young is said to have stopped.
Flea Markets
- Salt Lake's Indoor Swap MeetWest Valley City · Indoor swap meetSalt Lake Indoor Swap Meet offers a remarkable variety of products and vendors in one convenient location. Our vast selection includes clothing, electronics, food, and much more, ensuring that there's something for everyone.
- Urban Flea MarketSalt Lake City · VintageYear-round vintage, yard sale style, and handcrafted market where you'll find a selection of vintage, antique and yard sale items including records, furniture, clothing, artwork, tools, oddball knick knacks and so much more!
- Yorktown SwapOgden · Flea marketNorthern Utah's pop-up swap meet and mixed market of vendor booths, held inside the Newgate Mall in Ogden across from Bath and Body Works.
U-Pick Farms
- Beck FarmsAmerican Fork · Seasonal flower farm offering u-pick experiencesA seasonal flower farm in American Fork, Utah, where visitors wander the rows, cut flowers with friends, and learn the quiet art of growing beauty with their own hands.
- Chateau Monette Flower FarmPayson · Fresh cut flower farm and event & wedding venueA cut-flower farm on the DeHart family's West Mountain land near Payson, Utah, begun with a few hundred lavender plants and now known for its u-pick evenings.
- Cherry Hill FarmsAlpine · Fruit farm with u-pick and farm toursBurgess Orchards, a peach and apple orchard on Bateman Lane in Alpine, Utah, sells its fruit from a farm stand whose peach sundae is served only while fresh peaches last.
- Cherry Hill FarmsHurricane · U-pick farm and seasonal farm storeA Rowley family fruit stand and corn maze on Flora Tech Road in Hurricane, Utah, on the former Stirling family farm, which joined Cherry Hill Farms in 2022.
- Copper Moose FarmPark City · Small-scale vegetable and cut-flower farmA three-acre vegetable and cut-flower farm at 7,000 feet in Park City, Utah, whose farm stand sits beside the McLeod Creek Trail and whose greenhouse keeps growing through winter.
- Flower Farm UtahLayton · U-pickA self-serve u-pick flower farm on eight acres off North Fort Lane in Layton, Utah, begun in 2023 after a run of get-well and sympathy bouquets.
- Fred Openshaw FarmsSantaquin · Fruit orchardA family fruit orchard in Santaquin, Utah, now trading as Openshaw Acres, that began when the town doctor planted trees so patients could work off their bills.
- Irey Acres FarmPlymouth · U-pick farmA goat dairy and market garden in Plymouth, Utah, built by a family who sold microgreens in Ogden and lived two years in an RV trailer.
- Nature Hills FarmCedar City · Working farmA five-acre family farm in the foothills above Enoch, near Cedar City, Utah, where the pigs drink the whey left from raw-milk cheese made since 2009.
- Ogden Bay ProduceTaylor · Flower farm • fruit farm • u-pickA fifth-generation produce farm in Taylor, Utah, with a self-serve U-Pick garden, a cash-box market, and fields watered almost entirely through drip lines.
- Rocky Top Fruit FarmPayson · Produce marketSituated in Payson, this 32-acre farm specializes in u-pick fruits like sweet cherries, peaches, apples, and berries.
- Rowley's Red BarnSantaquin · On-the-farm, farm marketRowley's Red Barn is a family fruit farm's store and fall grounds beside Interstate 15 in Santaquin, Utah, where the dried tart cherries come from a family that helped invent the drying.
- Snuck FarmPleasant Grove · Year-round hydroponic family farm with a farmshop and cafeHydroponic greens plus eggs and honey; farmshop, annual plant sale, cooking classes, workshops, and farm-to-table dinners.
- Spendlove Vegetable RanchApple Valley · Family farm open to visitors with u-pickA family farm on 30 acres in Apple Valley, Utah, opened in 2021 by Jeff and Annie Spendlove, who also helped start the Saturday farmers market in Hurricane.
- Sweet Pea Farm & OrchardParowan · Farm and orchardSweet Pea Farm & Orchard - FOOD - FLOWERS - COMMUNITY. ABOUT THE FARM Our Story.
- The Lavender AppleMillville · Lavender farmA family lavender and apple farm at the end of a dirt road in Millville, Utah, whose July festival grew out of a homeschool class's need for a market.
- Wall Brothers OrchardsSpanish Fork · Farm fresh fruitFamily fruit farm growing peaches, apples, and cherries in the Utah Valley for over fifty years; the Barn in Spanish Fork sells fresh fruit, pantry goods, ice cream, shakes, and slushies.
- Youth Garden ProjectMoab · Fall activitiesThe Youth Garden Project cultivates healthy children, families, and community through educational programs and connecting people with food from seed to table.
Wineries
- Bold & Delaney WineryDammeron Valley · Winery & tasting roomA winery and tasting room in Dammeron Valley, north of St. George, Utah, where unfiltered wines come from vines planted in volcanic ground between two dormant volcanoes.
- I/G WineryCedar City · Family owned and operatedI/G Winery is a family-run production winery and tasting room on Center Street in Cedar City, Utah, that began in 2012 in a cottage behind a Victorian bed and breakfast.
- Mountain MeaderyGrantsville · Meadery and wineryVeteran-owned meadery and winery in Grantsville offering handcrafted meads, signature honey wine, ciders, and a cold brew coffee mead; bookable tasting sessions and special events.
- The Vine YARDLeeds · WineryWine made from the grapes grown in our vineyard, 10 Vitis Vinifera varietals, plus blends: 6 reds: Cariñena, Garnacha, Petite Syrah, Tempranillo, Syrah, Zinfandel; 4 whites: Albariño, Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon Blanc, Viognier.
- Water Canyon WineryHildale · Family-owned and operated wineryWater Canyon Winery is a family-owned and operated winery rooted in a deep love for natural winemaking and community. In 2021, the winery opened in Hildale.
- Zion VineyardsLeeds · WineryZion Vineyards is a winery located in Leeds, Utah near Zion National Park. Founded in 2013. Tasting room open daily - call for reservations!
Fairs & Rodeos
- Beaver County FairMinersville · County fairBeaver County's August fair fills the fairgrounds on Highway 21, midway between Beaver and Minersville, Utah, and dates to a 1905 fair of farm and mining exhibits.
- Emery County FairCastle Dale · County fairThe Emery County Fair in Castle Dale, Utah, held since 1916, where two longhorns roam a numbered arena for $1,000 Cow Patty Bingo.
- Kane County FairKanab · County fairKane County's summer fair in southern Utah, grown from a 1940s high-school livestock show, where in 2026 a single hog was sold six times over for scholarships.
- Millard County FairDelta · County fairA free August county fair on the fairgrounds in Delta, Utah, which settled there in 1989, six years after flooding drove it from its old grounds at Deseret.
- Rich County Fair & RodeoRandolph · County fair and rodeoThe Rich County Fair & Rodeo fills six August days at the fairgrounds in Randolph, Utah, a grazing-county seat whose paper was promising a wild west rodeo by 1930.
- San Juan County FairMonticello · County fairSan Juan County's August fair at the Monticello fairgrounds opens with a mud bog, closes with a free youth rodeo, and dates its revival to 1949.
- Wayne County FairLoa · County fairThe Wayne County Fair, six August days in Loa, Utah, has been billed for generations as the Wayne County World's Fair and closes with a hometown rodeo and fireworks at dusk.
Town Festivals
- Bear Lake Raspberry DaysGarden City · Annual festivalA three-day August festival in Garden City, Utah, for the Bear Lake raspberry harvest, held in a county of under 3,000 people that expected 50,000 visitors in 2025.
- Cotton DaysWashington · Annual cotton days celebrationCotton Days is Washington City's free spring festival in Utah, honoring the families sent to grow cotton in the desert, and its 2026 edition closed with the city's first drone show.
- Daggett DazeManila · ParadeDaggett Daze is Manila, Utah's Labor Day Saturday, with a parade down Highway 43, a fair in the county park, PRCA rodeo, and a boat parade of lights on Flaming Gorge.
- Fort Herriman Towne Days ParadeHerriman · ParadeThe Saturday-morning parade of Fort Herriman Towne Days, a city-run procession of floats and performers through Herriman's Mirabella and Emmeline streets to W & M Butterfield Park.
- Founders' DayWellsville · Annual eventWellsville, Utah, marks its 1856 founding as Maughan's Fort each Labor Day with pancakes, a parade, rodeo nights, and a Sham Battle reenacted there since about 1930.
- Golden Onion DaysPayson · Annual celebrationPayson, Utah's five-day Labor Day celebration, begun in 1929 as the Onion Harvest and Homecoming, where a flower show in a 1901 schoolhouse still looks for the biggest onion.
- Grantsville SociableGrantsville · Annual community eventGrantsville's Sociable, first held on January 6, 1884, still fills the town's high school one Saturday each March with a car show, a talent program, and a dinner for its elders.
- Handcart DaysBountiful · Park activitiesHandcart Days is Bountiful, Utah's July pioneer celebration, held since 1950 and run entirely by volunteers, with a 1.8-mile parade up Main Street and gunny-sack races in City Park.
- Hay DaysTremonton · Summer traditionA July celebration in Tremonton, Utah, renamed from City Days in 2021 for the town's crops, with free pancakes from the city council and a police-versus-fire softball game.
- Heritage DaysSyracuse · Annual festivalSyracuse, Utah's June celebration, a week of pageant, petting zoo and pancakes that ends with a parade down 2000 West and fireworks from Founders Park.
- International DaysPrice · FestivalSeveral days of live entertainment, carnival, cultural celebrations, food, activities, and fun for the whole family; free to attend.
- Kaysville First Friday FestivalKaysville · Community festivalThis monthly event celebrates all things vintage, antique, and one-of-a-kind. There is something for everyone at this family-friendly community festival.
- Kearns Hometown CelebrationKearns · Annual hometown celebrationRaces, parade, food trucks, car show, live music, petting zoo and night sky show.
- Lamb DaysFountain GreenWatch lambs on a spit lowered into heated pits to cook overnight.
- Leamarado DaysLeamington · Homecoming celebrationLeamington's Labor Day homecoming in Millard County, Utah, begun in 1946 for returning World War II soldiers, runs from a morning talent show at Town Hall to a 3:30 rodeo.
- Little Hollywood Wild West FestKanab · FestivalKanab, Utah's Little Hollywood Wild West Fest runs three September nights of stunt shows, cowboy poets and Western actors, with its hub on a museum lot of actual movie sets.
- Melon DaysGreen River · FestivalCelebrating 120 years of tradition, Green River's Melon Days Festival honors our world-famous melons and the hardworking families who grow them.
- Miner's DayPark City · Annual celebrationPark City's Labor Day, called Miners Day, falls on the first Monday in September, when 15,000 golf balls race down Main Street and hard-rock miners drill a donated stone in City Park.
- Oak City DaysOak CityA two-day event held in August to celebrate the founding of the town.
- Old Mill DaysMillville · City celebrationOld Mill Days, Millville, Utah's June celebration at South Park, takes its name from the 1859 sawmill that the Cache Valley town was settled beside.
- Peach DaysBrigham City · Annual celebrationBrigham City's harvest festival, held since 1904 the weekend after Labor Day, traces its peaches to 100 pits William Wrighton bought for a dollar in 1855.
- Peach DaysHurricane · A celebration of our heritageHurricane, Utah's early-September festival on the old town square, revived in 1999 from a 1909 fruit festival that once grew into the Washington County Fair.
- Pioneer DaySpring City · Annual pioneer day paradeSpring City's July Pioneer Day week in Sanpete County, Utah: a fireman's breakfast, a Main Street parade, and history contests in a town listed entire on the National Register.
- Pioneer Day CelebrationFairview · CelebrationFairview's Pioneer Days, a Sanpete County, Utah, celebration that two volunteer chairs stretched from two days to ten, climbing to a July 24 parade, rodeo and dirt dance.
- Pioneer DaysMapleton · Event schedule2026 Event Schedule with Pickleball Tournaments and Pioneer Festival.
- Pioneer DaysWellingtonFriday community picnic in the park at 6:00 p.m. with the Desert Sage Band; Saturday breakfast, 10:00 a.m. parade, vendors, games, live music, bingo and tournaments at Wellington City Park.
- Pioneer Days CelebrationMonticello · Community celebrationA two-day Pioneer Day celebration in Monticello, Utah, with a Main Street parade and what the San Juan Record calls the nation's longest consecutively running fastpitch softball tournament.
- Price City Renaissance FestivalPrice · Family friendly, FREE community eventAnnual free family-friendly Renaissance Festival drawing more than 30,000 visitors to Washington and Pioneer Parks in Price, Utah.
- Quilt Walk FestivalPanguitch · FestivalThe Quilt Walk Festival, held each June in Panguitch, Utah, honors seven men who crossed a snowbound pass to Parowan in 1864 by laying quilts down ahead of them.
- Sauerkraut DaysProvidence · Town daysProvidence City Sauerkraut Days is a six-day August town celebration in Cache Valley, Utah, built around a sauerkraut that a local bottler ferments each summer in barrels and sells by the jar.
- Scandinavian Heritage FestivalEphraim · Scandinavian celebrationA free two-day Memorial Day weekend festival in Ephraim, Utah's "Little Denmark," begun in 1976 to pay for two pioneer roofs and now spread across three villages.
- Swiss DaysMidway · Small town heritage festivalMidway Swiss Days, a two-day Labor Day weekend festival on the Midway, Utah, town square since 1947, where beef smokes two days over Payson tart cherry wood.
- Swiss DaysSanta Clara · Hometown festivalSwiss Days is Santa Clara, Utah's three-day hometown festival, held since 1990 for the Swiss settlers of 1861, when a herd of decorated wooden cows lines Santa Clara Drive.
- Tintic Silver JubileeEureka · Long-standing traditionWe need volunteers to help out at various Tintic Silver Jubilee events.
- Torrey Apple DaysTorrey · Annual summer celebrationTorrey Apple Days fills a Wayne County town near Capitol Reef on the first weekend of July, when children race apple boats down the canal on Main Street.
Holiday Celebrations
- Hub City DaysMount Pleasant · Annual hub city days celebrationHub City Days, Mt. Pleasant's week-long Fourth of July celebration in Sanpete County, Utah, ends with three nights of rodeo, a Mammoth Parade and fireworks after dark.
- Pioneer Days CelebrationMonroe · Pioneer days celebrationMonroe's three-day Pioneer Day observance in Sevier County, Utah, opens its final morning with the Milk Run, a footrace named for the seven dairies its first course passed.
- Tomato DaysHooper · City parkHooper Tomato Days, a Labor Day week festival at the park and rodeo arena in Hooper, Utah, where a well-fed cow is turned loose on a grid of five-dollar squares.
Old-Time Music
- Dixie chapter old-time jamSt. George · Old-time jam sessionTwice-monthly Wednesday-evening jam of the Dixie Chapter of the Utah Old Time Fiddlers in St. George, a group the town's pioneer museum credits with over 50 years of playing.
- Pahvant chapter old-time jamsDelta, Fillmore and the surrounding area · Old-time fiddlers chapter jam sessionsThe Pahvant chapter serves the general Pahvant County area (Delta, Fillmore and the surrounding area).
- Salt Lake chapter old-time jamSalt Lake City · Old-time music jamThe Salt Lake City chapter serves the greater Salt Lake City area. This chapter holds jam sessions the second and fourth Saturdays of each month – from 11 AM to 1 PM – at the Redwood Recreation Center (3060 Lester [3100 South and Redwood Road]).
- Utah County chapter old-time jamsOrem · Jam sessionThe public is invited at no cost or obligation; any "fiddle compatible" instrument is welcome (guitar, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, dulcimer, etc); the public may join in or just sit and enjoy.
- Utah State Fiddle ContestFillmore · Fiddle contestCategories span Junior Fiddle through Harmonica across age groups; awards for winners will be presented at the conclusion of the contest.
Next door: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.