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Salt Lake City Salt Lake City . Salt Lake City, Utah The horizon in July 2011, Utah State Capitol, TRAX, Union Pacific Depot, the Block U, the City and County Building, and the Salt Lake Temple The horizon in July 2011, Utah State Capitol, TRAX, Union Pacific Depot, the Block U, the City and County Building, and the Salt Lake Temple Flag of Salt Lake City, Utah Flag Official seal of Salt Lake City, Utah Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah Salt Lake City is positioned in the US Salt Lake City - Salt Lake City Website Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and the most crowded municipality of the U.S. With an estimated populace of 190,884 in 2014, the town/city lies at the core of the Salt Lake City urbane area, which has a total populace of 1,153,340 (2014 estimate). Salt Lake City is further situated inside a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo Combined Statistical Area. Due to its adjacency to the Great Salt Lake, the town/city was originally titled "Great Salt Lake City" the word "great" was dropped from the official name in 1868 by the 17th Utah Territorial Legislature. Home to the command posts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Temple Square, Salt Lake City was historically considered a holy town/city by members of the LDS church; Brigham Young called it a "Kingdom of Heaven on Earth". Today, however, less than half the populace of Salt Lake City proper are members of the LDS Church. Salt Lake City has since advanced a strong outside recreation tourist trade based primarily on skiing, and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. Main article: History of Salt Lake City 1866 Harper's Weekly View of Salt Lake City, Utah w- Brigham Young (Mormons) - Geographicus - Salt - Lake - City-harpersweekly-1866.jpg Before Mormon settlement, the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute had dwelt in the Salt Lake Valley for thousands of years. At the time of the beginning of Salt Lake City, the valley was inside the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone; however, occupation was cyclic, near streams emptying from Canyons into the Salt Lake Valley. Explorer in the Salt Lake region is believed to be Jim Bridger in 1825, although the rest had been in Utah earlier, some as far north as the close-by Utah Valley (the Dominguez-Escalante expedition of 1776 were undoubtedly aware of Salt Lake Valley's existence). Fremont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845. The Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, had traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley in August 1846. Salt Lake City c. Upon arrival at the Salt Lake Valley, president of the church Brigham Young is recorded as stating, "This is the right place, drive on." Four days after arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young designated the building site for the Salt Lake Temple, which would eventually turn into a famous Mormon and Salt Lake City landmark. The Salt Lake Temple, constructed on the block that would later be called Temple Square, took 40 years to complete. In fact, the southeast corner of Temple Square is the initial point of reference for the Salt Lake Meridian, and for all addresses in the Salt Lake Valley. Great Salt Lake City replaced Fillmore as the territorial capital in 1858, and the name was later abbreviated to Salt Lake City. The city's populace continued to swell with an influx of Mormon converts and Gold Rush gold seekers, making it one of the most crowded cities in the American Old West. Explorer, ethnologist, and author Richard Francis Burton traveled by coach in the summer of 1860 to document life in Great Salt Lake City. This paved the way for statehood in 1896, when Salt Lake City became the state capital. Ethnic Chinese (who laid most of the Central Pacific stockyards ) established a expand Chinatown in Salt Lake City nicknamed "Plum Alley", which homed around 1,800 Chinese amid the early 20th century. Remnants of a once-thriving Japantown namely a Buddhist temple and Japanese Christian chapel still remain in downtown Salt Lake City. This time reconstructionalso saw the creation of Salt Lake City's now defunct red-light precinct that working 300 courtesans at its height before being closed down in 1911. The city's populace began to stagnate amid the 20th century as populace growth shifted to suburban areas north and south of the city. As a result, the populace of the encircling urbane region greatly outnumbers Salt Lake City. The town/city has experienced momentous demographic shifts in recent years. Hispanics now account for roughly 22% of inhabitants and the town/city has a momentous gay community. There is also a large Pacific Islander population, mainly made up of Samoans and Tongans; they compose approximately 2% of the populace of the Salt Lake Valley area. Salt Lake City was chose to host the 2002 Winter Olympics in 1995. Olympic venues are now used for local, national, and global sporting affairs and Olympic athlete training. Tourism has increased since the Olympic games,[not in citation given] but company did not pick up immediately following them. Salt Lake City expressed interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics. However, Beijing was chose to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake City hosted the 16th Winter Deaflympic games in 2007, taking place in the venues in Salt Lake City and Park City, and Rotary International chose the town/city as the host site of their 2007 convention, which was the single biggest gathering in Salt Lake City since the 2002 Winter Olympics. The U.S. Main article: Geography of Salt Lake City Astronaut photography of Salt Lake City west of downtown, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). Salt Lake City and contiguous suburbs, facing south Salt Lake City has a total region of 110.4 square miles (286 km2) and an average altitude of 4,327 feet (1,319 m) above sea level. The lowest point inside the boundaries of the town/city is 4,210 feet (1,280 m) near the Jordan River and the Great Salt Lake, and the highest is Grandview Peak, at 9,410 feet (2,868 m). The town/city is positioned in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain peaks on the easterly and southwestern borders, in the order given. The burgeoning populace of Salt Lake City and the encircling urbane area, combined with its geographical situation, has led to air character becoming a top concern for the populace. The Wasatch Front is subject to strong temperature inversions amid the winter, which trap pollutants and lower air character. The Utah Division of Air Quality closely monitors air character and issues alerts for voluntary and mandatory actions when pollution exceeds federal safety standards. Protests have been held at the Utah State Capitol and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation in the Utah State Legislature to make enhance transit no-charge amid January and July, when air character is usually at its worst. The populace of the Salt Lake City urbane region is projected to double by 2040, putting further pressure on the region's air character. The Great Salt Lake is separated from Salt Lake City by extensive marshlands and mudflats. The metabolic activities of bacteria in the lake result in a phenomenon known as "lake stink", a scent reminiscent of foul poultry eggs, two to three times per year for a several hours. The Jordan River flows through the town/city and is a drainage of Utah Lake that empties into the Great Salt Lake. The highest mountaintop visible from Salt Lake City is Twin Peaks, which reaches 11,330 feet (3454 m). Twin Peaks is southeast of Salt Lake City in the Wasatch Range. The mountain peaks near Salt Lake City are easily visible from the town/city and have sharp vertical relief caused by ancient earthquakes, with a maximum difference of 7,099 feet (2164 m) being accomplished with the rise of Twin Peaks from the Salt Lake Valley floor. The Salt Lake Valley floor is the ancient lakebed of Lake Bonneville which existed at the end of the last Ice Age. A panoramic view of Salt Lake City, June 2009 Plat of Salt Lake City, about 1870s The grid's origin is the southeast corner of Temple Square, the block including the Salt Lake Temple; the north-south axis is Main Street; and the east-west axis is South Temple Street. However, the blocks in Salt Lake City became irregular amid the late 19th century when the LDS Church lost authority over expansion and before the adoption of zoning ordinances in the 1920s. There are many lots, in Salt Lake City and encircling areas, that have irrigation water rights attached to them. Local water systems, in particular Salt Lake City Public Utilities, have a tendency to acquire or trade for these water rights. See also: List of Salt Lake City neighborhoods and Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City, Utah Neighborhoods and areas Salt Lake City has many informal neighborhoods. For example, the small, increasingly trendy Marmalade District on the west side of Capitol Hill was heavily gentrified and is now an eclectic and desirable location. For example, Rose Park has a lower crime rate than the average of the rest of Salt Lake City. Sugar House, in southeastern Salt Lake City, has a reputation as an older neighborhood with lots of small shops in the center. Sugar House is a friendly region which has been the focus of redevelopment accomplishments such as the UTA S-Line Streetcar. In addition to larger centers like Sugar House and Downtown, Salt Lake City includes a several smaller neighborhoods, each titled after the closest primary intersection. During the summer of 2007, 9th and 9th saw sidewalk and street improvements as well as an art installation by Troy Pillow of Seattle, Washington inspired by the 9 Muses of Greek myth, thanks in part to a monetary grant from Salt Lake City. Main article: Climate of Salt Lake City The climate of Salt Lake City is generally claimed to be semi-arid, but under the Koppen climate classification, Salt Lake City has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) with hot summers and cold, snowy winters. The major source of rain in Salt Lake City is massive storms that move in from the Pacific Ocean along the jet stream from October to May. The remnants of Hurricane Olivia helped bring the record monthly rain of 7.04 inches (179 mm) in September 1982. 1983 was the wettest year on record, with 24.26 inches (616 mm), while 1979 was the driest, when 8.70 inches (221 mm) were recorded. Spring snowmelt from the encircling mountain peaks can cause localized stream flooding amid late spring and early summer, the worst examples being in 1952 and especially 1983, when City Creek burst its banks, forcing town/city engineers to convert a several downtown streets into waterways. The close-by Great Salt Lake is a momentous contributor to rain in the city. Salt Lake City features large variations in temperatures between seasons. This causes air stagnation and thick smoke and fog in the valley from a several days to weeks at a time and can result in the worst air-pollution levels in the U.S., reducing air character to unhealthy levels. This same effect will also occasionally play a part in the summer months, causing tropospheric ozone to peak in July & August, but in 2015 it started at the beginning of June. In 2016 Salt Lake's air character was ranked 6th worst in the country by the American Lung Association. Climate data for Salt Lake City International Airport (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1874 present) Map of ethnic distribution in Salt Lake City, 2010 U.S. Salt Lake City's populace has historically been dominantly white. Between 1860 and 1950 caucasians represented about 99% of the city's population. This amounts to 6.75% of Utah's population, 18.11% of Salt Lake County's population, and 16.58% of the new Salt Lake urbane population. The region inside the town/city limits covers 14.2% of Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City is more densely populated than the encircling metro region with a populace density of 1,688.77/sq mi (1,049.36/km ). The Salt Lake City-Ogden urbane area, which encompassed Salt Lake, Davis, and Weber counties, had a populace of 1,333,914 in 2000, a 24.4% increase over the 1990 figure of 1,072,227. Since the 2000 Census, the Enumeration Bureau has added Summit and Tooele counties to the Salt Lake City urbane area, but removed Davis and Weber counties and designated them as the separate Ogden-Clearfield urbane area. The Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield combined statistical area, together with the Provo-Orem urbane area, which lies to the south, have a combined populace of 2,094,035 as of 1 July 2008. Fewer than 50% of Salt Lake City's inhabitants are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City is home to a sizeable Bosnian American improve of more than 8,000 residents. Most of them came to Salt Lake City amid the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The large Pacific Islander population, mainly Samoan and Tongan, is also centered in the Rose Park, Glendale, and Poplar Grove sectors. Most of Salt Lake City's ethnic Pacific Islanders are members of the LDS Church though various Samoan and Tongan-speaking congregations are situated throughout the Salt Lake region including Samoan Congregational, Tongan Wesleyan Methodist, and Roman Catholic. Just outside Salt Lake City limits, newer immigrant communities include Nepalis, and refugees of Karen origin from Myanmar (formerly Burma). Salt Lake City also has the third biggest Sri Lankan improve in the United States. Salt Lake City has been considered one of the top 51 "gay-friendly places to live" in the U.S. The town/city is home to a large, company savvy, organized, and politically supported gay community. Leaders of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Utah, as well as leaders of Utah's biggest Jewish congregation, the Salt Lake Kol Ami, along with three voted for delegates of the town/city identify themselves as gay. In 2007 Salt Lake City was ranked by Forbes as the most vain town/city in America, based on the number of plastic surgeons per 100,000 and their spending habits on cosmetics, which exceed metros/cities of similar size. However, this likely reflects a concentration of plastic surgeons inside the town/city limits but whose client base contains the entire urbane area. In contrast to the 2007 ranking by Forbes, a 2010 study conducted by Portfolio.com and bizjournals concluded Salt Lake City was the least stressful town/city in the United States. In 2014, CNN deemed Salt Lake City to be the least stressed-out town/city in the United States, citing the low cost of residing and abundance of jobs. A 2008 study by the magazines Men's Health and Women's Health found Salt Lake City to be the healthiest town/city for women by looking at 38 different factors, including cancer rates, air character, and the number of gym memberships. Main article: Economy of Salt Lake City Zions Bancorporation command posts in Salt Lake City Historically known as the "Crossroads of the West" for its barns s, when close-by steel, quarrying and barns operations provided a strong origin of income with Silver King Coalition Mines, Geneva Steel, Bingham Canyon Mine, and petroleum refineries, Salt Lake City's undivided economy is service-oriented. The daytime populace of Salt Lake City proper swells to over 315,000 citizens , not including tourists or pupils. Local, state, and federal governments have a large existence in the city, and trade, transportation, and utilities also take up a momentous portion of employment, with the primary employer being the Delta core at Salt Lake City International Airport. Salt Lake City is home to one Fortune 500 company, Huntsman Corporation, and two Fortune 1000 companies, Zions Bancorporation and Questar Corporation. Other eminent firms headquartered in the town/city include Alpha - Graphics, Sinclair Oil Corporation, Smith's Food and Drug (owned by nationwide grocer Kroger), Mona - Vie, Myriad Genetics, and Vehix.com. Notable firms based in close-by cities inside the urbane region include Arctic Circle Restaurants, Franklin - Covey, and Overstock.com. Goldman Sachs has its second biggest existence in Salt Lake City. Downtown Salt Lake City continues to modernize its commercial real estate. Seat of Salt Lake City government c. The Salt Lake City and County Building has been the seat of town/city government since 1894. Since 1979 Salt Lake City has had a non-partisan mayor-council form of government. By state statute, members of the town/city council also serve as the governing board of the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City. Elected officials of Salt Lake City as of 2016 This tension is still reflected today with the Bridging the Religious Divide campaign. This campaign was initiated when some town/city residents complained the Utah political establishment was unfair in its dealings with non-LDS inhabitants by giving the LDS Church preferential treatment, while LDS inhabitants perceived a burgeoning anti-Mormon bias in town/city politics. Salt Lake hosted many foreign dignitaries amid the 2002 Winter Olympics, and in 2006 the President of Mexico began his U.S. The Salt Lake City Fire Department presently operates out of 14 fire stations. See also: List of mayors of Salt Lake City Main articles: Education in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County Education Salt Lake City Public Library. Recently, cash was allowed for the ongoing standard of more than half of the elementary schools and one of the middle schools in the Salt Lake City School District, which serves most of the region inside the town/city limits. There are twenty-three K-6 elementary schools, five 7 8 middle schools, three 9 12 high schools (Highland, East, and West, with the former South High being converted to the South City ground of the Salt Lake Community College), and an alternative high school (Horizonte) positioned inside the school district. In addition, Highland has recently been chose as the site for the charter school Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts (SPA). The Salt Lake City Public Library fitness comprises of the chief library downtown, and five chapters in various neighborhoods. In 2006, the Salt Lake City Public Library was titled "Library of the Year" by the American Library Association. Postsecondary educational options in Salt Lake City include the University of Utah, Westminster College, Salt Lake Community College, Stevens-Henager College, Eagle Gate College, The Art Institute of Salt Lake City, Violin Making School of America, and LDS Business College. Salt Lake City is home to a several exhibitions. Salt Lake also is home to a several classic movie theaters including the Tower Theatre and the Broadway Theater. The Salt Lake Film Society also puts on no-charge shows at the Rose Wagner Theater and the Salt Lake Public Library. On 5 December 2007, the Salt Lake Chamber and Downtown Alliance reported a two-block section of downtown south of the prepared City Creek Center is prepared to turn into a new arts hub. Salt Lake City provides many venues for both experienced and amateur theatre. Local experienced acting companies include the Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake Acting Company and Plan-B Theatre Company, which is the only theatre business in Utah fully devoted to developing new plays by Utah playwrights. The Off-Broadway Theatre, positioned in Salt Lake's historic Clift Building, features comedy plays and Utah's longest-running improv comedy troupe, Laughing Stock. Salt Lake City is the home of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, established in 1847. The choir's weekly program, called Music and the Spoken Word, is the longest-running continuous network broadcast in the world. Salt Lake City is also the home to the Utah Symphony Orchestra, which was established in 1940 by Maurice Abravanel and has turn into widely famous. The orchestra's initial home was the Salt Lake Tabernacle, but since 1979 has performed at Abravanel Hall in the downtown area. In 2002, Utah Symphony consolidated with Utah Opera, which was established in 1978 by Glade Peterson and under current Artistic Director Christopher Mc - Beth presents four opera productions at Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City region is also home to the internationally famous children's choir from The Madeleine Choir School and the Salt Lake Children's Choir (established in 1979). Professional dance companies in Salt Lake City include Ballet West, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company (which jubilated its 45th anniversary season in 2008/2009) and Repertory Dance Theatre. Salt Lake also has an underground metal scene, which contains bands such as Gaza and Bird Eater. In the summer, Salt Lake City also hosts the Twilight Concert series which is a no-charge summer concert series for all the inhabitants in the city. The series has been a part of the Salt Lake City music scene for 23 years. Salt Lake City has a grow and vibrant festival culture. Various celebrations happen throughout the year, celebrating the range of the communities in the Salt Lake Valley. Hocico performing at the 2015 Dark Arts Festival in Salt Lake City The festival also hosts the Voice of the City film festival which allows small-town filmmakers to show their version of Salt Lake. The Jewish Arts Festival, hosted by the IJ and Jeanne Wagner JCC of Salt Lake City, showcases Jewish culture through workshops, theater, food, film, art, and intact music from the small-town and global Jewish communities. Salt Lake City also hosts portions of the Sundance Film Festival. Several other film celebrations take place in Salt Lake City: Film - Quest, Salty Horror Con & Film, Damn These Heels, and the Voice of the City film festivals. The festival focuses on autonomous, documentary, and foreign feature-length films encircling LGBTQ issues, ideas, and art. Voice of the City is part of the Urban Arts Festival and allows small-town filmmakers to show their version of Salt Lake. The 2015 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival was the first performance festival in Salt Lake City. The Living Traditions Festival is a 3-day multicultural arts festival hosted by the Salt Lake City Arts Council. The festival jubilates traditional dance, music, crafts and food from the various intact ethnic communities of Salt Lake City. The festival jubilated its 30th anniversary in 2015. Earth Jam is an annual festival jubilated in Salt Lake's Liberty Park to jubilate Earth Day through music. Craft Lake City DIY (Do-It-Yourself) festival is an artisan festival that promotes the use of science and technology to help small-town artists produce their crafts such as silk screens, jewelry, and other mediums. Carmelite Festival 2015 live band with the Carmelite Monastery of Salt Lake City seen in back The Catholic Nuns of Carmelite Monastery hold an annual fair each fall in Holladay, a suburb of Salt Lake City. The Sri Sri Ganesh Hindu Temple of Utah, positioned in Salt Lake City, has an annual Ganesh Festival called Ganesh Chathurthi. The 10-day festival is devoted to rites of worship of the Hindu God Ganesh. In 2014 the festival was hosted at the Krishna Temple of Salt Lake since the Ganesh temple's exterior was under construction, which made the inner temple inaccessible. India Fest is hosted by the Krishna Temples of Salt Lake City and Spanish Fork, Utah. The festival contains food, dances, drama and a pageant of the Ramayana. Since 2011 the Krishna Temple of Salt Lake City has held an annual Festival of Colors, similar to the famous festival at the Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah. The Great Salt Lake City Yoga Festival is in its fifth year as of 2015. 2015 saw the first Downtown Yoga festival in Salt Lake City. Harts Hearth Clan of Tooele, Utah performing the method Norse rite, Salt Lake City Pagan Pride Day 2015 The small-town Pagan improve has appreciateed the annual Salt Lake City Pagan Pride Day since 2001. Cosplayers (left) receive steampunk tarot readings at the 2015 Salt City Steamfest in Salt Lake City Members of the steampunk subculture have an annual 2-day festival called "Steamfest" in Salt Lake City. The Rose Park (a suburb of Salt Lake) Community puts on a festival in the spring. Sandy, another suburb of Salt Lake City, holds a Hot Air Balloon Festival at the end of summer. Attendees at the 2014 Greek Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Asian Festival, approaching its 40th anniversary in 2017, jubilates various Asian cultures around Utah and is held in Salt Lake City. The Italian cultural street festival Ferragosto jubilates Italian food and culture from Italian communities in Salt Lake City. Festa Italian is a 2-day festival that highlights various regions of Italy with live music, food, wine, beer and entertainment. Other cultural celebrations in Salt Lake City include the Peruvian Festival, the Utah Brazilian Festival, the Polynesian Cultural Festival, the Nihon Matsuri Japanese Festival, and the Buddhist Obon Japanese Festival. Salt Lake City is host to a number of conventions that come to the Crossroads of the West. With a several large venues, including the Salt Palace and Vivint Smart Home Arena in downtown, Salt Lake is capable of accommodating conventions upwards of 100,000 or more citizens . Crowds in the Salt Palace Convention Center at the 2015 Salt Lake Comic Con in Salt Lake City The convention broke inaugural records in 2013, hosting the biggest crowd of any inaugural comic convention. The second event, Fan - X of 2014, and the fall event of 2014 both broke attendance records for the event, surpassing 120,000 citizens . The convention was sued by San Diego Comic Con, but won the right to use the trademark of comic con in its name. In 2014, Stan Lee called the Salt Lake Comic Con "the greatest comic con in the world". On 25 September 2015 at 6 pm, the Con broke the world record for the most costumed comic book cosplay characters in one location. The Salt Lake City International Tattoo Convention brings in various artists from around the United States and world. Fantasy Con hosted its first convention, the first of its kind, in Salt Lake City in 2014. 2015 saw the first Gaming Convention come to Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics. A primary state holiday is Pioneer Day, 24 July, the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers' entry into the Salt Lake Valley. Beginning in 2004, Salt Lake City has been the host of the global Salt Lake City Marathon. Salt Lake City has begun to host its own affairs in the last several years, most prominently the Friday Night Flicks, no-charge movies in the city's parks, as well as the Mayor's community and public awareness program, Salt Lake City Gets Fit. Salt Lake City was host to the 2002 Winter Olympics. At the time of the 2002 Olympics, Salt Lake City was the most populated region to hold a Winter Olympic Games. The event put Salt Lake City in the global spotlight and is regarded by many as one of the most prosperous Winter Olympics ever. In February 2002, Torino, Italy was granted an Olympic Sister City relationship with Salt Lake City, which became a Friendship City relationship in October 2003. On 13 January 2007 an agreement was signed, where Salt Lake City and Torino officially became Olympic Sister Cities. On the third Friday of every month, the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll presents a no-charge evening of visual art; many arcades and other art-related businesses stay open late, allowing enthusiasts to tour various exhibits after hours. KUTV News Studio in the Wells Fargo Center building in Salt Lake City KSL TV, KSL Radio, and the Deseret News are positioned in the Triad Center in Salt Lake City. See also: Media in Salt Lake City and Salt Lake City in film Salt Lake City has many distinct media outlets. The Salt Lake City urbane region is ranked as the 31st biggest radio and 33rd biggest tv market in the United States. Print media include two primary everyday newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News (previously the Deseret Morning News). Other more specialized publications include Now Salt Lake, Salt Lake City Weekly, Nuestro Mundo of the Spanish-speaking community, QSalt - Lake and The Pillar for the LBGT community. There are a number of small-town magazines, such as Wasatch Journal (a quarterly periodical covering Utah's arts, culture, and outdoors), Utah Homes & Garden, Salt Lake Magazine (a bimonthly lifestyle magazine), CATALYST Magazine (a monthly surroundingal, health, arts and politics magazine), SLUG Magazine, an alternative underground music magazine. Utah Stories is a periodical that covers small-town issues, primarily concentrated on the Salt Lake Valley. It is Salt Lake City's current ABC affiliate. KUTV is Salt Lake City's CBS affiliate. Some Salt Lake airways broadcasts are carried on broadcast translator networks throughout the state. Salt Lake City has turn into a case of market saturation on the FM dial; one cannot go through more than about two frequencies on an FM radio tuner before encountering another transmitting station. Main article: Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Lake Temple Salt Lake City is the command posts for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and has many LDS-related sites open to visitors. The most prominent is Temple Square, which contains the Salt Lake Temple (not open to the general public) and visitors' centers open to the public, no-charge of charge. In 2004, the Salt Lake City chief library received an Institute Honor Award for Architecture by the American Institute of Architects and features a diverse ive architectural style. The roof of the building serves as a viewpoint for the Salt Lake Valley. The city's biggest enhance park, at over 100 acres (0.40 km2), Liberty Park features a lake with two islands in the middle and the Tracy Aviary. Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, positioned in the foothills of Salt Lake City, features many different exhibits and also hosts many musical concerts. The Utah Olympic Park, positioned near Park City, features the Olympic ski jumps, as well as bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton runs. Other prominent Olympic venues include Soldier Hollow, the site of cross-country skiing affairs, positioned southeast of Salt Lake near Heber City. Salt Lake City is close to a several world-class ski and summer resorts, including Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, Solitude, Park City Mountain Resort, and Deer Valley. Salt Lake City is also home to a several primary shopping centers. City Creek Center is the city's newest primary shopping center and features many high-end retailers not found anywhere else in Utah. Sugar House Park is the second biggest park in the city, and is host to incessant outside events and the major Fourth of July fireworks in the city. Other attractions in or inside close adjacency to Salt Lake City include Timpanogos Cave National Monument, the Golden Spike National Historic Site (where the world's first transcontinental barns was joined), the Lagoon (amusement park), the Great Salt Lake, the Bonneville Salt Flats, Gardner Historic Village, one of the biggest dinosaur exhibitions in the U.S. Winter sports, such as skiing and snowboarding, are prominent activities in the Wasatch Mountains east of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is home to the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA), who moved from New Orleans in 1979 and play their home games in Vivint Smart Home Arena (formerly known as the Delta Center and later known as Energy - Solutions Arena). Salt Lake City was previously home to a experienced basketball team, the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association (ABA), between 1970 75. The success of the Stars may have had a hand in the decision by the struggling Jazz to relocate to Salt Lake City in 1979. Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer was established in 2004, initially playing at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah before the soccer-specific Rio Tinto Stadium was instead of in 2008 in neighboring Sandy. The team won their first MLS championship by defeating the Los Angeles Galaxy at the 2009 MLS Cup. Smith's Ballpark, home of the Salt Lake Bees Their name was changed to the Stingers in 2002 and to the Bees, a historical Salt Lake City baseball team name, in 2006. Real Salt Lake Soccer Major League Soccer Rio Tinto Stadium (in Sandy) 2004 1 20,160 Salt Lake Bees Baseball Pacific Coast League Smith's Ballpark 1994 0 15,411 Salt Lake City Stars Basketball NBA Development League Lifetime Activities Center (in Taylorsville) 2016 0 3,156 The Utah Avalanche, formed in January 2011, were a evolution rugby league team for the now defunct American National Rugby League. The Utah Warriors were a rugby union team that competed in the Rugby Super League in 2011, playing their home games at Rio Tinto Stadium. In June 2012, Salt Lake City hosted the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy, a primary international rugby union tournament for under-20 nationwide squads from "second-tier" nations. Utah became the first state outside Minnesota where bandy exists when Olympic Bandy Club was formed in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake is also home to two roller derby leagues: the Salt City Derby Girls and Wasatch Roller Derby, both of which field travel teams. Main article: Transportation in Salt Lake City Salt Lake City lies at the convergence of two cross-country motorways; I-15, which runs north-to-south just west of downtown, and I-80, which joins downtown with Salt Lake City International Airport just to the west and exits to the east through Parley's Canyon. SR-201 extends to the Salt Lake City suburbs. The Legacy Parkway (SR-67), a controversial and oft-delayed motorway, opened September 2008, heading north from I-215 into Davis County along the east shore of the Great Salt Lake. Salt Lake City's surface street fitness is laid out on a simple grid pattern. The entire Salt Lake Valley is laid out on the same numbered grid system, although it becomes increasingly irregular further into the suburbs. US-89 enters the town/city from the northwest and travels the length of the valley as State Street (with the exception of northern Salt Lake City). UTA transit buses at the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub (Salt Lake Central Station) Salt Lake City's mass transit service is directed by the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and contains a bus system, light rail, and a commuter rail line. These services are all interconnected at the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub (Salt Lake Central Station) positioned a short distance west of the town/city center. The Brookings Institution in 2011 rated Salt Lake City's mass transit fitness as the third-best in the country at connecting citizens to jobs, providing access to 59% of the jobs in the valley. UTA's bus fitness extends throughout the Wasatch Front from Brigham City in the north to Santaquin in the south and as far west as Grantsville, as well as east to Park City. The Blue Line, which opened in 1999 and was period in 2008, travels from the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub (Salt Lake Central Station), south to the close-by city of Draper. The Red Line, which originally opened in 2001 and was period in 2011, runs from the University of Utah, south-west through Salt Lake to the improve of Daybreak in South Jordan. A third line, known as the Green Line, opened in 2011 and runs from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City), with the extension to the airport having opened in April 2013. Front - Runner at the North Temple Bridge/Guadalupe Station in Salt Lake City Amtrak, the nationwide traveler rail system, provides service to Salt Lake City operating its California Zephyr everyday in both directions between Chicago and Emeryville, California. Greyhound Lines serves Salt Lake City as well. Both of these stations are positioned at the Salt Lake City Intermodal Hub. Salt Lake International Airport sits between downtown Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake. Salt Lake City International Airport is roughly 4 miles (6 km) west of downtown. A total of 22,029,488 travelers flew through Salt Lake City International Airport in 2007, representing a 2.19% increase over 2006. The airport rates as the 21st busiest airport in the United States in total travelers, is persistently rated first in the nation in on-time arrivals and departures, and has the second-lowest number of cancellations. There are two general aviation airports nearby; South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan and Skypark Airport in Woods Cross. Salt Lake City is widely considered a bicycle-friendly city. In 2010, Salt Lake City was designated as a Silver-level Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists, placing the town/city in the top 18 bicycling metros/cities in the U.S. Many streets in the town/city have bike lanes, and the town/city has presented a bicycle map. However, off-road biking in the valley has suffered decidedly as access to trails and paths has declined with the increase of housing developments and territory privatization. In 2012, the Salt Lake Transportation Division launched Bike - SLC.com, which consolidates the city's knowledge about bicycle routes, safety, and promotions. Salt Lake City was the first town/city in the United States to use the "Green Shared Lane", also known as a "super sharrow", a 4-foot (1.2 m) wide green band down the middle of a travel lane where adding a dedicated bike lane is unfeasible. On 25 September 2010, UTA in partnership with Salt Lake City, the Utah Department of Transportation, the Wasatch Front Regional Council, and the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Committee, opened a Bicycle Transit Center (BTC) at the Intermodal Hub. In April 2013, Salt Lake City launched a bike share program known as GREENbike. The town/city is also home to the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. As a result of this increasing support, Salt Lake City's on-road bikeway network has grown to encompass 200 lane miles. One prominent example of the city's cycling and strolling routes is the loop around City Creek Canyon on Bonneville Boulevard. The town/city has designated the road as one lane only (one-way) for motor vehicles, turning the other lane over to two-way cyclists and pedestrians. Salt Lake City has a several sister cities/towns, including: List of citizens from Salt Lake City List of tallest buildings in Salt Lake City National Register of Historic Places listings in Salt Lake City, Utah USS Salt Lake City (Ships of the United States Navy titled "Salt Lake City"). The official Salt Lake City climatology station was positioned in downtown from March 1874 to 30 April 1928 and at Salt Lake City Int'l since 1 May 1928. Mormons & Gentiles: A History of Salt Lake City (First ed.). "Utah Street Tramways History of trams in Salt Lake City". "Salt Lake City welcomes S-Line". 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