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Anasazi State Park, near Boulder (pop. 126), is the site of one of the largest ancient communities of the Anasazi Indians west of the Colorado River. The community is believed to have thrived there from A.D. 1050 to 1200.

first appeared: 6/3/2001

Manti (pop. 2,596), known as the Temple City, was settled in 1849 by a company of 50 pioneer families sent by Brigham Young to help Ute Indians learn how to farm. The settlers camped on Temple Hill and had to use wagons and dugouts for protection against the cold their first winter.

first appeared: 5/27/2001

The oldest National Park Service site in Utah is Natural Bridges National Monument near Blanding (pop. 3,162). It was established in 1908 and is the site of three natural bridges named Kachina, Owachomo, and Sipapu.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

Goosenecks State Park, near Mexican Hat (pop. 259), is the site of a 1,000-foot canyon formed by the San Juan River, which meanders back and forth through the area more than five miles while advancing only one linear mile toward the Colorado River.

first appeared: 5/20/2001

The land that is now Utah was once home to the giant allosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur measuring more than 16 feet high and 39 feet long. Sixty fossils of the beast were found at one site alone in the state, which adopted the allosaurus as its state fossil in 1988.

first appeared: 5/13/2001

Utah’s Legislature approved an unusual bill in 1997, designating the Dutch oven—a covered iron kettle—as the official state pot. The vessel, once used by pioneers, remains in use by many Utah residents today. The city of Logan is headquarters for the International Dutch Oven Society.

first appeared: 5/6/2001

The pioneers who built the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City used oxen to haul granite blocks 15 miles from the quarry to the building site. Construction took 40 years, beginning in 1853. The highest spire of the temple stretches 210 feet into the sky, topped by a 12-foot statue of the Angel Moroni, the heavenly messenger that Mormon founder Joseph Smith claimed visited him in 1823.

first appeared: 4/29/2001

Earl Douglass, a paleontologist who worked for the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Pa., discovered dinosaur fossils at what is now Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal (pop. 6,644) in 1909.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

The Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail State Park is a path for nonmotorized use, stretching for 28 miles near Interstate 80, from Park City (pop. 4,468) to Echo Reservoir.

first appeared: 4/22/2001

This Is The Place Monument, erected in 1947 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mormons’ arrival in Salt Lake Valley, depicts the Mormon pioneers, as well as early Spanish explorers, mountain men, and American Indians.

first appeared: 4/15/2001

Moab (pop. 6,337) was so named by Mormon settlers in the 1800s because of the area’s similarities to the Moab in the Bible, a green valley in the middle of a desert.

first appeared: 4/8/2001

When mountain man Jim Bridger floated down the Bear River in 1824 and came upon a great body of salt water, he thought he had reached the Pacific Ocean. Instead, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

Thousand Lake Mountain on the east side of the Fishlake National Forest sounds like a water sports enthusiast’s paradise, but in reality, there are few lakes on the mountain. The name might have been more appropriate for nearby Boulder Mountain, which has many.

first appeared: 4/1/2001

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