Utah Has Many Faces Offering Many Activities
Utah is becoming a well-known destination resort location throughout the world
. With many different attractions to appeal to the millions of visitors to the state the tourism industry in Utah is providing a multitude of opportunities to sports and outdoor enthusiasts. With a gamut of year round activities available in Utah, the state boasts the offerings of golf vacations during the summer months and snow related sports activities in the wintertime. Whether it is a weekend getaway or a three week retreat the choices for Utah lodging are as ample as the recreational activities that abound within the state.With the Olympic oval and other venues that are in use since the 2002 Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City, athletes from all over the world are heading to Utah to train and compete in a number of winter sports events. Speed skaters race around the oval track where Apollo Ono took a gold medal, while ski and snowboard enthusiasts take to the same slopes where gold medal winners sped downhill and tore up the runs of Park City.
Although, Utah is synonymous with winter snow and outdoor recreational activities, there are also many visitors that enjoy the states summertime festivals and mountain trails. While Park City is famous for many of the winter recreational activities that take place between November and April the mountain resort is also a destination for warm weather travelers that make their way to the resorts to find Utah lodging and enjoy the warmer climate of the mountains from May to September. Amid the trails and golf courses of the higher mountain elevations are many natural wonders such as hot springs, caves and mountain meadows.
Throughout the state there are natural splendors that can captivate the imagination and inspire the mind. Utah is filled with canyons and mountain landscapes that are unrivaled anywhere else in the world. From Zions Canyon in the south to Flaming Gorge Dam and the wild white water that gives rafters the thrill of being swept down river. Among the natural wonders is the warm water of the Homestead Crater that gives bathers and scuba divers the opportunity explore the 65 foot deep cavern inside a natural crater dome that stretches 55 feet from the roof to the surface of the warm water below.
With all of the natural beauty that the state has to offer, combined with the outdoor and indoor recreational activities that are enjoyed in either the summer or winter months, the visitors to Utah can spend either a quiet relaxing weekend in one of the states resort retreats, or find a new adventure waiting for them when the choose their Utah lodging destination for an active lifestyle.
by: Art Gib