Moab, Utah
This photo is of Moab, Utah taken in 2012. Moab is a dry desert environment that for a long period of time was densely populated. Today it is a national park and receives numerous visitors year round to enjoy the scenic site, with hiking, biking or off road adventure. The once dry harsh environment is now an economic resource for the state of Utah.
Kennecott Copper Mine
This online photo is of the Utah Kennecott Copper Mine, it is the world’s largest open pit copper mine. The mine can be seen as far away as space. For Utahn’s the mine has represented employment to many and also great environmental damage to our environment. The land owned by and surrounding the mine has been developed today in to the DAYBREAK housing community, which has contributed to the population increase in the South Jordan area.
Salt Lake LDS Temple
The center of the Salt Lake Valley in Utah is the Latter Day Saints Temple located in downtown Salt Lake City. The temple serves as the starting point for the city planning graph lay out of the roads in Salt Lake. This is a place of worship for church member and a visiting center for others. The LDS church pioneers are the founders of the provisional state of Deseret in 1849, later to be renamed Utah.
The Saltair of the Great Salt Lake
This is a photo of the first Saltair, located on the shores of the Great Salt Lake it was completed in 1893. Intended from the beginning it was built as the Western counterpart to Coney Island, the Saltair was one of the first amusement parks, and for a time was the most popular family destination west of New York. However it was destroyed by fire on April 22, 1925, and was later rebuilt. Again disaster struck in 1931, in the form of another fire which caused over $100,000 in damage. Attempts over the next decade to breathe new life into the resort finally ended in November 1970, when an arson fire was set in the center of the wooden dance floor, destroying Saltair.
Proximity to Interstate Highway 80, plus new population expansion into the Tooele Valley and the western Salt Lake Valley, prompted the construction of a new Saltair (Saltair III) in 1981. The new pavilion was constructed out of a salvaged Air Force aircraft hangar and was located approximately a mile west of the original. Once again the lake was a problem, this time flooding the new resort only months after it opened.
Tracy Aviary
Tracy Aviary is a located on the south/west side of Liberty Park in downtown Salt Lake City. The park was founded in 1938, from a donation of the private bird collection of banker, Russell Lord Tracy. It is home to collection of approximately 400 birds representing about 135 species. The park is the oldest Aviary’s located in the United States.
