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Salt Lake City, Utah is one of only two major urban areas in the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada).
Nearby: Great Salt Lake
Google Maps
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Headlines
The Salt Lake Tribune makes plans for free online access
Wildlife, air quality at risk as Great Salt Lake nears low
Old Salt Lake City airport’s iconic World Map finds a new home at the new airport
Recommended Listening
kuer.org
Bookstores
King’s English, 1511 South 1500 East – Facebook
Red Butte Garden
Utah’s Botanical Garden and Arboretum – redbuttegarden.org – a non-profit botanical garden that features 100 acres of gardens, natural area and walking paths.
Rugby
warriorsrugby.com – Facebook – Live
Supermarkets
theneighborhoodhive.org
Elsewhere
Jared Farmer: Utah’s main population corridor, the Wasatch Front, could more properly be called the Wasatch Oasis, a land of lakes as much as mountains. But Utahns have largely turned their backs on the history and ecology of Utah Lake and Great Salt Lake, not to mention the geoheritage of ancestral Lake Bonneville. The valleys below the ancient shorelines have become showcases for improvident land use. Utah’s strong sense of place lacks a complementary ethic of place.In a long-form illustrated essay—a sort of manifesto—I describe a once-and-future Salt Lake City affiliated with its namesake lake. I argue that Utahns will become better stewards of historic landscapes as well as better builders of urban habitats if they work from the bottom up, and turn from the lofty to the lowly. Historic maps, documentary photographs, and artistic imagery accompany this 12,000-word essay from 2014.
Wikipedia
Salt Lake City
Lake Bonneville
Wallace Stegner
Planeta.com