Utah: 37 state parks, 10 historic sites, 1 recreation area, 1 state trail and 1 scenic area

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Parks & natural areas 38

Antelope Island State ParkThe largest island in the Great Salt Lake, reached by a two-lane causeway and home to free-ranging bison…
Bear Lake State ParkCalcium carbonate suspended in the water gives this 20-mile lake its startling aqua colour, and sandy beaches…
Coral Pink Sand Dunes State ParkA shifting sea of coral-pink sand, funnelled into dunes by wind accelerating through the notch between the…
Dead Horse Point State ParkA high desert point above a vast landscape of canyons, with sunrises and sunsets that set the canyon walls…
Deer Creek State ParkA Bureau of Reclamation reservoir built in the late 1930s for the Provo River Project, half an hour from…
East Canyon State ParkA reservoir among the mountains of northeastern Utah, good for boating, fishing and camping and thick with…
Echo State ParkEcho Reservoir, built by the Bureau of Reclamation in the 1930s to irrigate the valley below and long since…
Escalante Petrified Forest State ParkNature trails climb through a petrified forest above Wide Hollow Reservoir, built in 1954 to irrigate the…
Flight Park State Recreation AreaKnown worldwide as one of the best training sites for hang gliding and paragliding, run in partnership with…
Fred Hayes State Park at StarvationA sprawling reservoir with four primitive and two developed campgrounds, plenty of them secluded. Beyond the…
Goblin Valley State ParkA valley of squat sandstone hoodoos — the goblins — so strange the landscape is routinely compared to Mars…
Goosenecks State ParkA small park on the rim of a canyon 1,000 feet above one of the most striking entrenched river meanders in…
Great Salt Lake State ParkA marina on the south shore of the Great Salt Lake, home port of the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, with views…
Green River State ParkShade under tall cottonwoods and a nine-hole golf course on the bank of the Green River, which runs nearly…
Gunlock State ParkA red rock reservoir 15 miles northwest of St. George, with warm summer water, a mild winter and seasonal…
Huntington State ParkA warm-water lake completed in 1966 for Emery County irrigation and recreation, and a local secret for…
Hyrum State ParkA Cache Valley reservoir with camping, boating and fishing close to Logan. Its campground and day-use areas…
Jordan River OHV State ParkUtah's off-highway vehicle park, with four separate tracks plus a 50 track, tabletops and banked turns, open…
Jordanelle State ParkA large reservoir in the Wasatch Back whose Hailstone Recreation Area carries an eight-lane boat ramp, a…
Kodachrome Basin State ParkSixty-seven monolithic sedimentary pipes rise out of sandstone layers recording 180 million years. A 1948…
Lost Creek State ParkDesignated a state park in 2021 and still largely undeveloped: a boat ramp, a primitive campground and vault…
Millsite State ParkA reservoir on the Ferron Watershed Project, completed in 1970 where an older dam once served a flour mill…
Otter Creek State ParkA prime fishery and a quiet base for ATV riders, with three trails including the Paiute Trail System running…
Palisade State ParkA resort lake Daniel B. Funk built in the 1860s by damming part of Sixmile Creek, on land he obtained from…
Piute State ParkA primitive, quiet park on the cliffs of the Sevier Plateau, where anglers come for trophy rainbow, cutthroat…
Quail Creek State ParkSome of the warmest water in Utah and a mild winter, which keeps boaters and anglers coming all year. The…
Red Fleet State ParkA short hike leads to dinosaur tracks pressed into Nugget sandstone more than 200 million years ago. Boat and…
Rockport State ParkFive developed and primitive campgrounds around a northern Utah reservoir, good for fishing, boating and…
Sand Hollow State ParkWarm blue water against red sandstone, and the dunes of Sand Mountain next door for off-highway riding. Boat…
Scofield State ParkHigh in the Manti-La Sal Mountains, with two campgrounds near the reservoir — Mountain View sits on a terrace…
Snow Canyon State Park7,400 acres of red Navajo sandstone, ancient lava flows and dunes north of St. George, best seen on foot, by…
Steinaker State ParkCamping, boating, swimming and OHV riding around a reservoir fed by a canal from Ashley Creek — one of the…
This Is The Place Heritage Park450 acres preserving the story of Utah's settlement, with more than 60 original or replica structures in its…
Utah Lake State ParkOne of the largest freshwater lakes in the West, sitting in a valley that gets about 15 inches of rain a…
Utahraptor State ParkOne of the largest dinosaur bone beds in North America, 15 miles northwest of Moab: over 5,500 bones from…
Wasatch Mountain State ParkNearly 23,000 acres of alpine terrain set aside in 1961, with four 18-hole golf courses and miles of trail…
Willard Bay State ParkA freshwater reservoir on the Great Salt Lake flood plain, held back by the 20-mile Arthur V. Watkins Dam 12…
Yuba State ParkA reservoir built between 1902 and 1917 by local farmers and ranchers who had to raise the dam themselves or…

Historic sites & museums 10

Anasazi State Park MuseumAn Ancestral Puebloan village occupied from about A.D. 1050 to 1200, and one of the largest communities west…
Butch Cassidy State MonumentThe restored boyhood home of Robert LeRoy Parker, the outlaw Butch Cassidy, open since 2017 and a state…
Camp Floyd State Park MuseumWhere the U.S. Army, Mormon pioneers, stagecoach passengers and the Pony Express all crossed paths. Buchanan…
Danger Cave State MonumentDanger Cave and Jukebox Cave, near Wendover, keep 11,000-plus years of Great Basin human history; Danger Cave…
Edge of the Cedars State Park MuseumThe largest collection of Ancestral Puebloan pottery on display in the Four Corners, beside a village its…
Fremont Indian State Park and MuseumThe largest known Fremont Indian village, uncovered during the construction of Interstate 70 and now…
Frontier Homestead State Park and MuseumCedar City's pioneer and early industrial history, told through an extensive horse-drawn wagon collection, a…
Old Iron Town State MonumentIron County's second try at making iron. Iron City had its own school and smithy beside the foundry, yet poor…
Territorial Statehouse State Park MuseumUtah's oldest surviving government building, and the south wing of a capitol Brigham Young began at Fillmore…
Utah Field House of Natural History State Park MuseumEverything within 80 miles of Vernal is exposed geologic history, and this museum tells it with hands-on…

Trails & scenic stops 2

Bridal Veil Falls State MonumentA waterfall in Provo Canyon, reached on foot from the main parking lot by a trail kept open all year, though…
Historic Union Pacific Rail TrailNearly 30 miles of former railbed running from the Wasatch Mountains near Park City, across the wetland…

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