Tabernacle Choir Performance with Salt Lake City Tour

• Temple Square: Utah’s most visited attraction, receiving 7 million visitors a year
  • Tabernacle: built in 1867, home of the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir and one of the largest pipe organs in the world at 11,632 pipes!
  • Temple: the most iconic building in Utah
  • Family History Library: largest genealogy library in the world
  • Conference Center: largest theater-style auditorium ever built, featuring 21,000 seats
  • Historic Hotel Utah: a century-old luxury hotel that hosted U.S. presidents, dignitaries, and celebrities
• Capitol Hill: unique history, regal architecture, and breathtaking scenery
  • Capitol: the second-most beautiful in America
  • Scenic overlook: spectacular views of the Rocky Mountains
  • Council Hall: City Hall of the Old West
  • Mormon Battalion Monument: remembering the first and only religious unit in the U.S. military
  • White Memorial Chapel: pioneer-era Mormon chapel overlooking the valley; first in the city to have a steeple
  • Memory Grove: picturesque park featuring City Creek and memorials to Utah veterans
• Pioneer Heritage State Park:
  • Mormon Pioneer Trail: where 70,000 pioneers walked 1,300 miles
  • This is the Place monument: Mormon pioneers and explorers of the American West
  • Scenic overlook: mountain views, overlook of the entire valley and Great Salt Lake
  • Pony Express Monument: awe-inspiring statues and Pony Express station with a stunning mountain backdrop
• Brigham Young’s Estate:
  • Beehive House: stately home of Brigham Young, known as the “American Moses”
  • Lion House: a polygamous mansion for 20 wives and 50 children in the Old West
  • Eagle Gate arch: Prominent 76-foot span arch with a 2-ton American eagle statue atop, marking the entrance to Brigham Young’s estate
• Other attractions:
  • Historic Union Pacific Depot: one of the finest train stations in the Old West
  • Gateway Center & Olympic Legacy Plaza: “The Gateway to the City”
  • Pioneer Square and historic Rio Grande train station
  • Fort Douglas: Civil War-era fort built to keep an eye on the Mormons
  • Olympic Village and Stadium: home of the most successful Winter Olympics ever
  • University of Utah: Founded 1850, the oldest state university west of Missouri River
  • Historic Brigham Street Mansions District: millionaires’ row from a century ago
  • Governor’s Mansion and other mansions of wealthy mining magnates
  • Cathedral of the Madeleine: Roman Catholic headquarters in Utah; only cathedral in America under patronage of Saint Mary Magdalene
  • First Presbyterian Church: exquisite red sandstone and stained glass windows
  • Masonic Temple: Egyptian Revival architecture and mysterious sphinx statues, used for popular Hollywood movies and television shows
  • Trolley Square: Union Pacific magnate E.H. Harriman built Salt Lake City a state-of-the-art trolley car system in 1908, refashioned with inspiration from Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco
  • Library Square: designed by a world-famous architect in a stunning modern style
  • City Hall: striking Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and the symbol of non-Mormon citizens’ open defiance of the Mormon Church

Meal Stop: Thursday’s tour stops for dinner at Brigham Young’s Lion House Pantry, featured on the Food Network with Chef Bobby Flay. Sunday’s tour stops for lunch at an alternate restaurant. The meal stop is optional, and alternate sights are available if you choose not to eat. Food is at your own expense.