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Ranked by traveller reviews: 1) the Salt Lake City guided bus tour, 2) the Great Salt Lake boat tour, 3) the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square with a city tour, 4) the storytelling trolley tour, 5) the Antelope Island wildlife expedition to see bison and pronghorn, 6) a boat tour with a swim (float) in the Great Salt Lake, 7) the Bonneville Salt Flats adventure, 8) the Utah State Capitol, 9) the Natural History Museum of Utah and 10) Big and Little Cottonwood canyons — Snowbird’s tram in summer, skiing in winter.

Plan two days in town and two more for the surroundings. Day one: a bus or trolley tour, Temple Square, the Capitol, lunch downtown and the Natural History Museum. Day two: Antelope Island for bison and the lake, or a Great Salt Lake boat trip, then Ensign Peak at sunset. Day three: Little Cottonwood Canyon and Snowbird, or Park City and the Olympic Park. Day four: the Bonneville Salt Flats (two hours west) or Timpanogos Cave and Sundance.

Temple Square and the Thursday Tabernacle Choir rehearsal, the State Capitol tours, Ensign Peak’s short hike for the city view, the Family History Library, City Creek Canyon, Liberty Park and Tracy Aviary’s grounds, Gilgal Garden, the Salt Lake City Public Library’s rooftop, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, the scenic drives up Big and Little Cottonwood canyons with trailheads to Lake Blanche and Cecret Lake, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Red Butte Garden and Hogle Zoo are paid.

Antelope Island State Park’s bison herd and lake beaches (one hour; guided tours from about $126–150), Park City’s Main Street and the Utah Olympic Park (35 minutes), Big and Little Cottonwood canyons with Snowbird and Alta (30 minutes), the Bonneville Salt Flats (two hours; tours $149–156), Timpanogos Cave and the Alpine Loop (one hour), Heber Valley’s scenic railroad (one hour) and, for a long day, the wild horses and the Uinta Mountains. Yellowstone and Utah’s Mighty Five are four to five hours away — multi-day trips.

The free Tabernacle Choir rehearsal on Thursday evenings, a Utah Jazz game at the Delta Center, the ghost tour or haunted Old Town bus, sunset from Ensign Peak, Red Butte Garden’s summer concert series, downtown’s bars and breweries around Main Street and Sugar House (Utah’s liquor laws are looser than their reputation), the Capitol Theatre and Eccles Theater for shows, and Park City’s High West Saloon 35 minutes away.

Ski ‘the greatest snow on earth’ — Alta, Snowbird, Brighton and Solitude are 30–45 minutes from downtown and Park City and Deer Valley an hour — plus snowshoeing, the Utah Olympic Park’s bobsled rides and the Sundance Film Festival in late January. Temple Square’s Christmas lights run from late November, the Jazz play at home, and the Natural History Museum and Clark Planetarium fill snowy days. Boat tours on the lake pause in winter.

Hogle Zoo, the Natural History Museum of Utah’s dinosaur hall, the Clark Planetarium, Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, Tracy Aviary, Antelope Island’s bison, floating in the Great Salt Lake, the Utah Olympic Park’s ziplines and bobsled, Lagoon amusement park 30 minutes north, the Living Planet Aquarium in Draper, Snowbird’s summer alpine slide and This Is The Place Heritage Park.

May to October for the city, lake and canyons, with September the sweet spot — warm days, cool nights and the aspens turning. December to March is ski season, with snowy peaks and sunny valley days. Summer is hot (90s°F) but dry; spring brings melting snow and wildflowers in the canyons by June.

Yes — an hour from downtown, the largest island in the Great Salt Lake holds a free-roaming herd of 500–700 bison, pronghorn, bighorn sheep and millions of migrating birds, plus beaches where you can float in the salty water. Drive it yourself (park entry per car) or take a guided wildlife tour with sunset timing; go early or late to see the animals, and bring bug spray in May and June.