Ultimate Salt Lake City Tour

This is the most popular and longest-running sightseeing tour in Salt Lake City for over 40 years.

Red SLC tour bus and two costumed tour guides

Explores the top attractions with a very knowledgable local guide on a 15-mile trip around town. Several stops are made where you get off the bus, including Temple Square to hear the Tabernacle organ recital, as well as Utah Capitol Hill and Mormon Pioneer Trail monument—both of which have scenic overlooks on the mountainside

LENGTH:  2.5 hours

TIMES: 

  • 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, Monday-Saturday

  • 11:00 AM and 1:30 PM, Sundays (May through September)

  • Sunday morning and Thursday evening you should also consider the Tabernacle Choir + City Tour

LOCATION: Tours depart from Radisson Downtown Hotel (215 W South Temple, Salt Lake City)

PARKING: If you’re driving in to downtown and need to park your car, there’s a public lot directly across the street from Radisson Downtown Hotel that’s available for a small fee (usually just $5 for all-day parking, though it increases if there are large events or conventions that day)

TOUR  HIGHLIGHTS 

TEMPLE SQUARE

This is Utah's most visited tourist attraction, with over 5 million visitors a year. This 35-acre property is full of beautiful gardens, fountains, and century-old buildings and cathedrals. The highlight of visiting Temple Square is going inside the domed structure known as the Tabernacle to hear the famous pipe organ—one of the largest in the world with 11,623 pipes.  

ATTRACTIONS:

  • Salt Lake Temple: Utah’s most iconic building

  • Tabernacle: a pioneer-era auditorium built in 1867. It has one of the largest and most famous pipe organs in the world

  • Assembly Hall: a historic chapel from the 1800’s

  • LDS Conference Center: one of the largest religious auditoriums in the world

  • Brigham Young's pioneer homes: the Beehive and Lion Houses

  • Joseph Smith Memorial Building, formerly the historic Hotel Utah—one of the finest in the West a century ago

UTAH CAPITOL HILL

Utah Capitol Hill sits on a hilltop above downtown offering majestic Rocky Mountain views, as well as several historic buildings and monuments. It was voted the second most beautiful state capitol in America so it’s definitely a major highlight of the tour enjoyed by everyone

ATTRACTIONS:

  • Utah's first million-dollar mansion

  • Utah State Capitol

  • Salt Lake City's first City Hall

  • Old Mormon chapel

  • Historic Mormon Battalion Monument

  • Several fascinating statues and their stories

  • Scenic overlook of Salt Lake Valley and Rocky Mountains

OTHER ATTRACTIONS

  • Pony Express National Monument

  • Mormon Pioneer Historic Trail and mountain overlook of the city

  • Union Pacific Historic Railroad Depot, built in 1909, "the Gateway to Salt Lake City"

  • 2002 Winter Olympic Stadium and sites

  • Historic Brigham Street - drive through Salt Lake City's first historic district to marvel at 100-year-old mansions and cathedrals, including the Utah Governor's Mansion and the Cathedral of the Madeleine

  • Historic City Hall

  • Salt Lake City Library - "America's Library of the Year" famous architecture

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED