Feed the Stingrays! Visit the touchpool located in the Ocean Explorer Hall to learn interesting facts about stingrays while they eat or book a Stingray Encounter to feed and interact with the stingrays just like their animal care team!
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Free Animal Shows
Enjoy a free Show at Brigham Young University Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum weekdays and Saturday.
Free Weekly Shows
Free public shows are held in-house Monday-Friday at 7:30 PM with an additional show at 6:30 PM on Monday, and Saturday at 1 PM and 3 PM. Shows typically last 30 to 45 minutes.
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Brigham Young University
645 E 1430 N, Provo, UT 84602
Wasatch Slopes Chariot Racing
Chariot Racing at the Golden Spike Event Center-Race Track in Ogden, Utah.
The fastest athletes from six area chariot clubs are harnessed in teams of two and pull a chariot for 440 yards competing head to head against other teams. This is a fun filled family sport that boast a unique experience.
*Most Saturdays
Golden Spike Event Center
1000 N 1200 W Ogden, Utah 84404 (801) 399-8798
Carriage Rides
Horse Drawn Carriage rides are available 5:00 – 8:00 Friday and Saturday. $10.00 per person. 4 and under Free.
Rides can be reserved through Rocky Mountain Outfitters 435-654-1655. Reservations are not needed. The Carriage is available at the Homestead Activity Center.
Carriage Ride & Dinner package, $39.00 per person which includes a three course dinner in Fannys Grill.
- The Homestead Resort & Spa
700 N Homestead Dr, Midway, UT 84049 (866) 976-6417
Animals, Zoos & Farms
Salt Lake County
Salt Lake City
Sandy City
Utah County
Pleasant Grove
Weber County
Ogden
Cache County
Wellsville
Grand County
Moab
Thanksgiving Point
Ashton Gardens, Farm Country, the Museum of Ancient Life, Museum of Natural Curiosity, the Butterfly Biosphere and the Emporium and restaurants offer stimulating and engaging experiences in a safe, family-friendly setting.
THANKSGIVING POINT
3003 Thanksgiving Way
Lehi, UT 84043 (801) 768-2300
Tracy Aviary
Tracy Aviary
589 East 1300 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
Office Phone: 801-596-8500
Aviary Info: 801-596-8500 ext. 100
General Email: [email protected]
Chase Mill Email: [email protected]
Moms can visit Tracy Aviary for free on Mother’s Day Weekend.
This Is The Place Heritage Park
THIS IS THE PLACE HERITAGE PARK
2610 East Sunnyside Ave
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801)582-1847
The West…just as it was! Step back in time with a visit to This Is The Place Heritage Park. The non-profit This Is The Place Foundation manages Utah’s premier living history attraction, our historic 450-acre Utah state Park. Our mission is to preserve and promote the heritage and history of Utah. You’ll find it alive in storied accounts of the settlement of the West, told by our knowledgeable interpreters in a setting of original and replica historic homes. You’ll also see artisans and interpreters demonstrate 19th Century frontier life in a working environment. While you look on, the blacksmith explains his trade while he creates items used elsewhere in the Village and the furniture-maker turns ordinary wood into a masterpiece!

A lively variety of domestic skills are demonstrated in Village homes. You can watch wool being carded and spun into yarn that will be colored with a kaleidoscope of dyes made from native plants, many grown right here at the Park. At another historic building, candles are being dipped layer-by-layer over a small open fire in the back yard and quilting demonstrations are sure to leave you warm at heart!
A visit to the Park is not a tour of historic artifacts behind velvet ropes and glass, but a true experience of life as it was in the early days of the West. The Native American Village offers a window to a world long since gone, where members of Utah’s indigenous tribes interpret the history of their native people. You can also enjoy the Park from the comfort of one of our three replica trains and see and hear the history of the settlement, or simply spend the day walking the quiet streets on your own.

Elsewhere in the 450-acre Park is our Visitors’ Center, the welcome center of the Park. There you’ll find one of our newest attractions, the Heritage Park Preview exhibition, along with one of Utah’s finest gift and souvenir shops. The ZCMI Mercantile inside the Park is filled with old-fashioned gifts and candy and is sure to be one of your most memorable shopping experiences during your visit.
Wheeler Historic Farm
Wheeler Historic Farm is a Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation facility, open to the public 365 days a year from dusk to dawn. There is NO ADMISSION FEE to enter the grounds and nominal fees for activities such as wagon rides, milking the cow, and special events.
A living working farm where guests can visit animals & milk a cow, take wagon rides or tour a Historic Pioneer Victorian home. They have cows, horses, chickens, pigs, sheep, turkeys, goats, and rabbits.
WHEELER HISTORIC FARM
6351 S 900 E
Murray, UT 8412
(385) 468-1755