Utah
325 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Bingham Canyon, The Mountain That Became a Hole
- Brigham Young's Arrival and the State of Deseret
- Paiute, Goshute, and Shoshone, Desert Nations
- Statehood, Polygamy, and the Long Negotiation with Washington
- The First People of the Red Land
- The Golden Spike, Where America Came Together
- The Great Salt Lake, Ancient, Shrinking, Irreplaceable
- The Handcart Companies, Faith on Foot
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre
- The Red Rock and the Deep Time Beneath Your Wheels
- The Ute Nation, People of the Mountains
- Water in the Desert, Irrigation and the Making of Utah
Near Blanding
Near Bluff
- Bluff Fort: Building Something Permanent in Hard Country
- Bluff, Utah
- Hole in the Rock: The Wagon Road That Should Not Exist
- Sand Island: A Rock Wall Written Over Two Thousand Years
- Seven Posts in Thirty-Five Miles: The Trading Economy of the San Juan
- The Posey War: The Last Armed Conflict Between the United States and Native Americans
Near Bryce Canyon
- A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow
- Dixie National Forest and the Pink Cliffs: The Color Above Bryce Canyon
- Ebenezer Bryce and the Railroad That Sold the Hoodoos
- Hoodoos: What Three Million Years of Frost Does to Rock
- How Bryce Became a National Park
- Mossy Cave and the Man Made Waterfall
- One of the Darkest Skies in America
- Rainbow Point and the Grand Staircase
- Ruby's Inn and Bryce Canyon City
- Scenic Byway Twelve
- The Amphitheater of Hoodoos
- The Legend People Turned to Stone
- The Railroad and the Lodge
- Tropic and the Ditch That Made It
Near Cedar City
- Cedar Breaks: The Colosseum Above Ten Thousand Feet
- Cedar City, The Iron Mission
- Cedar City: Utah's Festival City at the Edge of the Plateau
- Cedar City's Iron Mission: Brigham Young's Industrial Gamble
- Enoch, Utah
- From Iron Mission to Festival City: A Century-Long Pivot
- Mountain Meadows: The Massacre Thirty-Five Miles Away
- Parowan, Utah
- Parowan: The Iron Mission
- Southern Utah University: Built by the Community
- The Southern Paiute and the First European Encounter
- The Utah Shakespeare Festival: A Tony-Winning Gamble
- Why Cedar City Has No Cedars
Near Escalante
- Anasazi State Park and the Coombs Village
- Devils Garden Hoodoos
- Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
- Escalante Town: Pioneers, Powell, and a Priest's Name
- Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
- Hell's Backbone Bridge
- Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition
- Lower Calf Creek Falls and Fremont Pictographs
- Scenic Byway Twelve and the Hogback
- The Escalante River: Last River Mapped
- The Vanishing of Everett Ruess
Near Kanab
- Best Friends Animal Sanctuary: Sixteen Hundred Lives in Angel Canyon
- Five Parks, One Hub: Kanab at the Center of the Grand Circle
- Grand Staircase-Escalante: The Monument Kanab Didn't Want
- Gunsmoke Country: The Television Western Era in Kanab
- Jacob Hamblin, the Buckskin Missionary, and Fort Kanab
- Kanab, Utah
- Little Hollywood: Over One Hundred Films in a Canyon Town
- Place of the Willows: Southern Paiute Roots of Kanab
- Reading the Grand Staircase: Five Cliffs, Two Hundred Million Years
- The California Condor Returns to the Vermilion Cliffs
- The Parry Brothers and the Lodge That Built Little Hollywood
Near Mexican Hat
- Boom and Bust: Utah's First Oil Rush
- Border Town: Mexican Hat and the Navajo Nation
- Goosenecks: Three Hundred Million Years Written in Stone
- John Ford's Country: Monument Valley and the Movies
- Mexican Hat: A Desert Crossing on the San Juan River
- Mexican Hat: Sixty Feet of Balanced Rock and Utah's First Oil Claim
Near Moab
- Ancient Peoples of the Canyon Country
- Canyonlands: How a Dam Site Became a National Park
- Dead Horse Point: A Legend About Thirst and a Terrible View
- Delicate Arch: From Schoolmarm's Bloomers to State Symbol
- Edward Abbey and the Arches He Tried to Save
- From Ghost Town to Adventure Capital: Moab After Uranium
- Manti-La Sal: The Mountains That Stand Above Moab
- Moab: A Crossroads on the Colorado
- Moab: Uranium Capital of the World
- Navajo Uranium Miners and the Cold War's Hidden Cost
- The Colorado River: Five Million Years of Canyon Building
- The Elk Mountain Mission: A Settlement That Lasted Four Months
- The Old Spanish Trail: Seven Hundred Miles From Santa Fe
- The Slickrock Trail: How a Motorcycle Path Remade a Town
- Wagon Master: John Ford Comes to Moab
- William Grandstaff: First Settler, Forgotten, Restored
Near Ogden
- Brigham City, Utah
- Brigham City's Great Experiment: Lorenzo Snow and the Cooperative Commonwealth
- Chief Terikee
- Clearfield's Wartime Depot
- David Eccles, Utah's First Millionaire
- East Layton, Utah
- Fort Buenaventura
- Fort Buenaventura: Miles Goodyear's Gamble
- Hill Aerospace Museum: Ninety Planes in the Desert
- Hill Aerospace Museum: The Base That Kept America Flying
- J. Willard Marriott, Root Beer Stand to Empire
- John Moses Browning, Gunsmith of the World
- Junction City
- Liberty Pioneer Monument
- Marriner Eccles and the Debt That Cured a Depression
- Martin Henderson Harris: Harrisville's First Settler
- Miles Goodyear's Gamble
- Ogden Union Station: Junction of a Continent
- Ogden Union Station: Where the Nation Was Stitched Together
- Simon Bamberger's Electric Line
- Snowbasin and the Olympic Mountain
- The Egyptian on Washington Boulevard
- The Morrisite War
- The Morrisite War: Utah's Forgotten Siege
- The People of the Weber
- The Utah General Depot
- Two-Bit Street
- Union Station, 1924
- Weber Stake Academy, 1889
- Willard: Rock Homes on the Wasatch Shore
Near Panguitch
- Ebenezer Bryce and the Canyon He Called a Hell of a Place
- Founded, Abandoned, Returned: Panguitch's Three Settlements
- Garfield County: Named for a President Who Served Seven Months
- Panguitch Lake: Fishing Above Eight Thousand Feet
- Panguitch, Big Fish and the Quilt Walk
- Panguitch: The Brick Town at the Gateway to Bryce
- The Red Brick Era: Panguitch Builds to Last
- The Sevier River: The River That Flows the Wrong Way
- Utah Scenic Byway Twelve: The Road That Starts Here
Near Park City
- Coalville, Utah: From Chalk Creek to Coal Town
- Hoytsville, Utah: Three Names, One Weber River Valley
- Midway Social Hall
- Park City: Silver Mountain, Ghost Town, Ski Resort
- Sundance: Forty-Six Years of Independent Cinema, Then Boulder
- The Egyptian Theatre: Lotus Leaves on Main Street
- The Great Fire of Eighteen Ninety-Eight
- The Ontario Mine and the Hearst Fortune
- Two Thousand Two: Park City Hosts the Winter Olympics
Near Provo
- American Fork, Utah
- Etienne Provost and the River That Kept His Name
- Fort Utah and the Provo War
- Fort Utah: The First Settler Foothold in Utah Valley
- Geneva Steel, The Mill That War Built
- Karl Maeser and the Academy on the Bench
- Lake Bonneville and the Bench Beneath the City
- Lehi, Utah
- Mormon Pioneers and the First Colony Outside Salt Lake
- Mount Timpanogos, Limestone and Legend
- Payson, Utah
- Provo Tabernacle: From Ruin to Temple
- Provo West Co-op: Utah's Cooperative Economy
- Santaquin, Utah
- Spanish Fork, Utah
- The Cave of Death
- The Fish-Eaters of Utah Lake
- The June Sucker's Long Way Back
- The Tabernacle That Fire Saved
- The Territorial Insane Asylum
- The Wrong Turn That Built Sundance
- The Y on the Mountain
- Utah Valley University
- WordPerfect, Novell, and the First Silicon Slopes
Near Salt Lake City
- America First Field, Real Salt Lake
- Antelope Island and the Bison That Almost Weren't
- Benson Grist Mill: Bread of the Pioneer Valley
- Bingham Canyon: The Biggest Hole on Earth and Who Dug It
- Bountiful, Utah
- Brigham Young and the Desert Kingdom
- Donner Hill: The Shortcut That Cost Everything
- Farmington, Utah
- First Sunday School in Salt Lake City
- Goshute and the Great Salt Lake They Sustained
- Jane Manning James: She Walked Across America
- Lagoon: One of the Oldest Amusement Parks in America
- Lagoon's Roller Coaster: A Century of Screaming
- Our Desert Island Home
- Over Jordan
- Pioneer Flour Mill Site
- Rio Grande Depot: The Station Built Out of Spite
- Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot
- Salt Lake City: The Lake That Gives the City Its Name Is Dying
- Silicon Slopes: From Copper to Code
- Simon Bamberger House
- Temple Square: Forty Years, One Quarry, One Dedication
- The 1847 Pioneer Arrival: This Is the Right Place
- The Deseret Alphabet: A Writing System That Almost Was
- The Enslaved Man Who Drove the Lead Wagon
- The Great Salt Lake Is Dying
- The Great Salt Lake's Slow Disappearance
- The Indigenous Peoples of the Salt Lake Valley
- The Lincoln Highway
- The Manifesto: Polygamy, Statehood, and What the Church Gave Up
- The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Context and Aftermath
- The Olympic Scandal: One Million Dollars and No Convictions
- The Plat of Zion: A Dead Prophet's Blueprint Becomes a City
- The Priesthood Ban: From Brigham Young to Spencer Kimball
- The Railroad That Went Around
- The Refugee City Inside the Pioneer City
- The Seagull Miracle and Its Skeptics
- The Tabernacle Choir: Founded the Year the Pioneers Arrived
- The Temple: Forty Years in the Desert
- The Tribune vs. the Church
- The Utah War: A Ghost City Marched Through
- This Is the Place Heritage Park
- This Is the Right Place, What Brigham Young Actually Said
- Utah State Fair: Since Before Statehood
- Utah Women Vote, and Then They Don't, and Then They Do
Near Torrey
- Butch Cassidy Danced Here: Outlaws in Wayne County
- Called to Hard Country: Pioneer Isolation in Wayne County
- Desert Light: Torrey as an Artist's Town
- Fremont Culture: The Eight Centuries the Parks Don't Foreground
- Scenic Byway Twelve: The Most Beautiful Road in America
- Southern Paiute: The People of the Fremont River Valley
- The Colonel Who Never Came: How Torrey Got Its Name
- The Fruita Orchards: When Mormon Irrigation Made the Desert Bloom
- The Pioneer Register: Palimpsest on Sandstone
- The Waterpocket Fold: Two Hundred Million Years in One Drive
- Torrey: Tiny Town at the Edge of the Slickrock World
- Wayne Wonderland: How Capitol Reef Became a Monument
Along the way
- A Death in the Black Hawk War
- Angels Landing: The Trail Congress Had to Regulate
- Ashley National Forest: The High Uintas and the Dinosaur Country Below
- Bear River City: Called by the Church
- Bear River, January 1863
- Beirdneau Peak Above Logan Canyon
- Bonneville Salt Flats: Speed Without Scenery
- Bonneville Salt Flats: The Fastest Place on Earth
- Burnt Station on the Pony Express
- Call's Fort
- Castle Gate: Coal Town and Butch Cassidy's Heist
- Cedar City to Fillmore: The Mormon Settlement Grid
- Cisco: Ghost Town on the High Desert
- Cove Fort: Brigham Young's Stone Waystation on the Mormon Corridor
- Danger Cave: Ten Thousand Years at the Edge of the Salt Flats
- Duchesne, Utah
- Echo, Utah: Every Route West Came Through Here
- Echo: Where the Railroad Was Born in Utah
- Eureka, Utah: Third-Richest District in the Nation
- Faust Pony Express Station
- Fillmore, Utah
- Flaming Gorge
- Fort Duchesne: Buffalo Soldiers on the Uinta
- Fremont Indian State Park: The Highway That Revealed a Lost Civilization
- Garland, Utah: The Sugar Town
- Garland: The Sugar Beet Company Town
- Green River, Utah
- Harrisburg: Cotton Town on the Virgin River
- Hatton: Where Brigham Young Said Move Along
- Heartbreak Ridge: The Wasatch Wall on the Mormon Trail
- Helper, Utah
- Henefer: The Trail's Turning Point
- Home of Truth
- Iosepa, the Polynesian Colony
- John Wesley Powell and the Green River Descent
- Joseph, Utah
- Leeds, Utah
- Logan's Electricity War
- Manti Utah Temple
- Mesa Arch Sunrise: Why Everyone Shows Up at Five a.m.
- Morgan: Gateway Through the Weber
- Mukuntuweap: The Name That Was Erased
- Nephi, Utah
- Old Main, Utah State University
- Old Paria: Ghost Town, Film Set, and the Fire of Two Thousand Six
- Pando: Eighty Thousand Years of the Same Tree
- Pando's Root System: What Survival Looks Like at the Ground Level
- Peek-a-boo and Spooky Slot Canyons
- Porterville, Morgan County
- Price, Utah
- Rainbow Bridge National Monument
- Richfield, Utah
- Roosevelt, Utah
- Saint George and the Mighty Five Onramp
- Silver Reef, Silver in Sandstone
- Snowville: Named for an Apostle
- Southern Paiute: Dispossession Measured in Park Entrance Fees
- St. George Opera House
- St. George Utah Temple, The First
- The 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre
- The Bear River Massacre
- The Colorado-Green Confluence: Two Rivers, One Story
- The Denis Julien Inscription
- The Donner Party Turns Up Broad Hollow
- The Downwinders: Atomic Testing and Southern Utah
- The Given Family Massacre
- The Golden Spike's Missing Workers
- The Las Vegas Pipeline That Lost
- The Midnight Massacre: Salina, Utah, 1945
- The Mighty Five Marketing Campaign, 2013
- The Mormon Corridor: Interstate Fifteen as the Old Pioneer Road
- The Narrows: A Canyon That Closes Without Warning
- The Scout Monument
- The Settling of Ferron
- The Thousand Mile Tree
- The Treaty of Ruby Valley, The Land That Was Never Sold
- The Unknown Pioneers of Logan
- The Utah POW Massacre of Nineteen Forty-Five
- The Utah War
- Thompson Springs: Rails, Coal, and the Road That Left
- Tintic Standard Mill: Ruins of Utah's Silver Boom
- Topaz: The Fifth-Largest City in Utah
- Topaz: Utah's Wartime City in the Desert
- Tremonton, Utah: The German Colony
- Tremonton: Named by Accident
- Uinta-Wasatch-Cache: The Only East-West Range in the Lower Forty-Eight
- USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum: Price's Dinosaur Hall
- Utah Field House of Natural History: Dinosaur Country
- Utah Tech University, From Dixie Academy to University
- Utah Territorial Statehouse: The Capital That Never Was
- Ute People: Dispossession from the Land That Bears Their Name
- Vernal, Utah
- Washakie: A Shoshone Village on the Malad River
- Washington, Utah
- Wendover Airfield: Where the Bomb Was Born in Secret
- Wendover, Utah: The Railroad Town That Trained the Enola Gay Crew
- Wendover: Where the Enola Gay Crew Trained
- Woodside: The Cold Water Geyser of the Desert
- Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel: Engineering a New Kind of Tourist