Thanksgiving Point home of the Nation's Largest Garden Railway with over a mile of track and 1,000 trestles. Also enjoy twelve theme gardens covering 55 acres and the new North American Museum of Ancient Life. Displays include some of the longest and tallest dinosaurs discovered, an Iwerks Theater, and an interactive discovery plaza. The mine at 2 miles across and mile deep is the world's largest man-made excavation and can be seen from space by the shuttle astronauts. The 2002 Winter Olympic Games will be hosted by Salt Lake City.
All sites being used for Olympic events are within an hour's drive from downtown.
Visit the Olympic venues and see firsthand the bobsled and luge runs, ski jumps, ice rink, and Olympic Torch in the Gallivan Plaza. Hansen Planetarium has a DigiStar projector which recreates star patterns, as well as a variety of other programs in the star chamber. Cathedral of the Madeline built in Roman-Gothic style features beautiful stained glass windows and Venetian mosaics. Bonneville Salt Flats where the hard, crystallized salt has carried the world's fastest cars to land speed records. Fort Douglas , founded in 1862, includes an impressive group of red sandstone buildings, parade ground, canons, officer's quarters, and a post cemetery.