• Bear Lake is a natural freshwater lake on the Utah-Idaho border.
• As a popular tourist area, people come to boat, swim, dive, kayak and more!
• The valleys surrounding Bear Lake are famous for their crops of raspberries. Every summer they host the Raspberry Days Festival in Garden City, Utah.

• The University of Utah was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret.
• Located in Salt Lake City, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs.
• During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the University hosted the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the Olympic Village living quarters for the athletes.

• Utah's Hogle Zoo opened in 1931. Its natural terrain covers 42 acres of tree-lined pathways where visitors can view over 800 animals.
• In 1959, Kali- the Zoo's popular Asian elephant- received one vote for city mayor.
• Shasta, the first liger born in the United States, lived in the Hogle Zoo. She lived to be 24 years old, and is the oldest liger ever recorded.

• The Sundance Film Festival is held annually in Park City, Utah. It is often a launch for many filmmaker's careers.
• Every January there are nearly 60,000 attendees.
• Before being called the Sundance Film Festival, Utah's annual film festival was called the Utah/US Film Festival and was held in Salt Lake City.

• Kings Peak is the highest peak in the state of Utah, with an elevation of 13,534 feet (4,125 m).
• The easiest route to the summit requires a 29 mile (47 km) round trip hike.
• It was named for the 19th-century geologist Clarence King.

• The area was named by John Wesley Powell during his 1869 expedition down the Green River. He called it Flaming Gorge because of the gorgeous red sandstone cliffs that surround this part of the river.
• Flaming Gorge Dam is used to generate hydroelectric power. Three turbine generators are located at the base of the dam. Each one has the capacity to produce 50,650 kilowatts of electrical power.
• Flaming Gorge is famous for its lake trout. A good number of 30+ pound fish are caught each year.

• Dinosaur National Monument was proclaimed a National Monument by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. The monument is located in both Utah and Colorado.
• As the river once carried animal carcasses downstream, many became stuck on the sandbar, which eventually turned to rock. Therefore, fossils from hundreds of creatures are concentrated in a small area.
• The dinosaur bone beds were discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass.

• This area is the homeland of the Ute Indian Tribe, and is the largest of three Indian reservations inhabited by members of the Ute Tribe of Native Americans.
• As of the 2000 Census, a population of 19,182 persons was recorded as living on the reservation.
• This reservation is the second largest by land area within the United States. The reservation covers over 4.5 million acres.

• Strawberry Reservoir is Utah's premier cold water fishery.
• The reservoir contains four major fishing areas. These are known as Strawberry Basin, The Meadows, Soldier Creek Basin and The Narrows.
• Crawdads, Cutthroat Trout, Kokanee Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Red Shiner, Utah Chub and Utah Sucker are all types of fish found in the reservoir.

• 33,000+ students attend Brigham Young University (BYU).
• BYU has the largest ballroom dance program in the world.
• BYU is the largest private university in the nation. There are branches located in Idaho and Hawaii.

• Coal has been mined continuously from the Sufco Mine since 1941.
• It is one of the most productive underground mines in the United States.
• Sufco Mine currently produces 6.5 million tons of coal a year.

• Deer Valley is consistently ranked among the top ski resorts in North America.
• In 2002, Deer Valley hosted the freestyle, mogal, aerial, and alpine slalom events for the Winter Olympics.
• Deer Valley is one of three resorts in the nation that is classified as a ski-only resort.

• Fountain Green was originally called Uintah Springs.
• Fountain Green has been settled since 1859.

• This Forest spans 1.3 million acres of land.
• President Theodore Roosevelt established the Ashley National Forest in 1908.

• This state park was established in 1972.
• It is a 210-foot-high (64 m), 3,070-foot-long (935 m) earthfill dam.
• The park's original name was Starvation State Park, named after the reservoir it surrounds.
• On May 7, 2019, the name was changed to the present-day, Fred Hayes State Park at Starvation, in honor of the director of Utah's State Parks.

• This monument is named in honor of Brigham Young's famous statement in 1847 that the Latter-day Saint pioneers should settle in the Salt Lake Valley.
• It marks the end of the 1,300-mile trek across the Great Plains by the early Mormons.