The Ultimate Salt Lake City Tour

This is the most popular and longest-running sightseeing tour in Salt Lake City for over 40 years.

 
Salt Lake City Tours 2018

Explores the top attractions with a very knowledgable local guide on a 15-mile trip around town. Several stops are made where you get off the bus, including Temple Square to hear the Tabernacle organ recital, as well as Utah Capitol Hill and Mormon Pioneer Trail monument—both of which have scenic overlooks on the mountainside

LENGTH:  2.5 hours

TIMES: 

  • 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, Monday-Saturday

  • 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM, Sundays (May through September)

  • Sunday morning and Thursday evening you should also consider the Tabernacle Choir + City Tour

LOCATION: Tours depart from Radisson Downtown Hotel (215 W South Temple, Salt Lake City)

PARKING: If you’re driving in to downtown and need to park your car, there’s a public lot directly across the street from Radisson Downtown Hotel that’s available for a small fee (usually just $5 for all-day parking, though it increases if there are large events or conventions that day)

 
 

TOUR  HIGHLIGHTS 

 
 

TEMPLE SQUARE

This is Utah's most visited tourist attraction, with over 5 million visitors a year. This 35-acre property is full of beautiful gardens, fountains, and century-old buildings and cathedrals. The highlight of visiting Temple Square is going inside the domed structure known as the Tabernacle to hear the famous pipe organ—one of the largest in the world with 11,623 pipes.  

ATTRACTIONS:

  • Salt Lake Temple: Utah’s most iconic building, built of granite stone in 1890

  • Tabernacle: a pioneer-era auditorium built in 1867. It has one of the largest and most famous pipe organs in the world. The Tabernacle is also the home of the Grammy award-winning Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

  • Assembly Hall: a historic chapel from the 1800’s

  • LDS Conference Center: one of the largest religious auditoriums in the world, 21,000 seats

  • Brigham Young's pioneer homes: the Beehive House and Lion House

  • Joseph Smith Memorial Building, formerly the historic Hotel Utah—one of the finest in the West a century ago

  • Monuments, gardens, and fountains

UPDATE: 2023 through 2026 a massive construction/renovation project is happening to redevelop Temple Square. Interior access to some of these buildings will periodically be limited, such as the Brigham Young homes and Joseph Smith Building. But the Tabernacle will always remain open so you can see and hear the pipe organ.

 
 

UTAH CAPITOL HILL

Utah Capitol Hill sits on a hilltop above downtown offering majestic Rocky Mountain views, as well as several historic buildings and monuments. It was voted the second most beautiful state capitol in America so it’s definitely a major highlight of the tour enjoyed by everyone

ATTRACTIONS:

  • Utah's first million-dollar mansion

  • Utah State Capitol

  • Salt Lake City's first City Hall

  • Old Mormon chapel

  • Historic Mormon Battalion Monument

  • Several fascinating statues and their stories

  • Scenic overlook of Salt Lake Valley and Rocky Mountains

OTHER ATTRACTIONS

  • Pony Express National Monument

  • Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail and mountain overlook of the city

  • Union Pacific Historic Railroad Depot, built in 1909, "the Gateway to Salt Lake City"

  • 2002 Winter Olympic Stadium and sites

  • Historic Brigham Street - drive through Salt Lake City's first historic district to marvel at 100-year-old mansions and cathedrals, including the Utah Governor's Mansion and the Cathedral of the Madeleine

  • Historic City Hall

  • Salt Lake City Library - "America's Library of the Year" famous architecture

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED