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Amiee is a freelance writer who splits her time between Salt Lake City and Capitol Reef Country, where she is building a home with the help of her dad. She is currently living in a tent on the edge of a mesa where wind gusts typically exceed 40 mph. It is not uncommon for her to wake up with small sand dunes on her pillow. Aimee reports on local government for the Wayne and Garfield County Insider, a weekly community newspaper covering 20 rural communities, and writes about food, travel, and adventure sports for several regional publications. When she’s not writing, she’s out trail running with her hard-working Australian Shepherd, devouring obscure history books, or trying to grow vegetables in harsh places. Although she’s originally from Wisconsin, she’s found a home in Utah and is currently pouring her love of the place into a book about the Great Salt Lake.
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John Taylor is a photographer based in Salt Lake City. As a young boy, armed with his grandfather’s vintage camera, he started to see the world through the lens. Even today, he enjoys connecting with people on assignment or location, or just out for a walk with his wife, son, and rescued greyhound. He never leaves home without a camera and is always on a quest for the best shot. To see more of his work, visit his website at www.visionfoto.com.
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Carey Hamilton is an award-winning reporter who has worked for The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and The Salt Lake Tribune. Since graduating from Syracuse University’s journalism school and moving to Utah in 1993, Carey has branched out to include screenwriting in her repertoire, and is always on the lookout for a producer or anyone who will make Hardline — a gritty story about vigilant animal rights activists who live their lives as vegans and follow straight-edge ways, meaning they don’t smoke, drink or do drugs. During her career, Carey has also served as the City Hall reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, a Pulitzer-winning newspaper in North Carolina, and was a technical writer. In her down time, she enjoys hanging with her rescue dog and cat, hiking, skiing, traveling, reading, snowshoeing and binge-watching movies and TV shows.
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Matthew Sketch is a painter and draftsman based in Salt Lake City, Utah. His motifs vary widely: from animals, and celebrities to interiors and abstractions, Sketch’s practice finds its coherence, not in content, but in approach. His works grow out of his personal relationships, his sensitivity to the objects and spaces memories attach themselves to, and a particular kind of intimacy that he achieves in his solitary encounters with nature. His gestures sprawl across the canvas in strong colors and thick strokes as if arranged by magnetic force. These dynamic surfaces draw the viewer in – an invitation to see the world from inside Sketch’s eye: wild and complex and full of emotion.
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Challenges & obstacles to maintaining the Utah way By Richard Markosian
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n the 1840s, a persecuted religious group headed west, braving hostile Indian/Mexican territory so they could control their own destiny. The Mormons designed and built this grid city so that everyone coming could homestead and raise their own food away from the menacing factories and the industrial revolution. They voted for a more simple self-sufficient lifestyle by moving their feet westward. Today that dream is a long-distant memory. The Wasatch Front is now a huge urban concrete jungle. Our parks and trails make up for our dystopian freeways. But we aren’t alone in our growing pains. Within the United States, a major western migration is still occurring. Most are coming for our great economy, plentiful jobs, and stun-
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nning outdoors. But I very often hear that Utah is a also a great place to raise kids. It is, if you can get them outside. More on that later. Utah (to our benefit) has always been considered a little too weird for most Americans. It has traditionally drawn far fewer migrants than Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Austin. But today, witnessing the building boom in downtown Salt Lake City, and across the entire Wasatch Front, it’s clear that more Americans are either on Instagram witnessing our massive Gay Pride Parade, or they are stopping by one of our Mighty Five Parks and realizing this place isn’t so weird afterall. Salt Lake City is finally experiencing what Denver experienced 15 years ago: an incredibly rapid influx of residents
and an apartment building boom. Young, single residents want to live in a vibrant downtown, near the mountains. Who can blame them?
Why Are We Experiencing Greater Migration Now? IIt seems more people than ever have recently been moving to Utah to take advantage of our affordable access to amazing mountains, rivers, lakes, snow and skiing. We have the best trails near a big city that I’ve ever witnessed. The Wasatch allows for an alpine adventure just minutes away: Pineview (pictured on the cover) is a mountain lake that has sandy beaches and fishing just 20 minutes from Ogden. But due to both our high birth rate and the huge influx of new residents, the lifestyle along the Wasatch Front is quickly changing: traffic jams, congestion, pollution, trail overuse, homelessness and open-air drug scenes are plauging our weird little city. City planners, builders and state leaders need to adapt in a major way or our “quality” of life will go the way of other big cities: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco. So why are we emulating our big-city western neighbors? Besides the housing shortage, the cost of commuting along our Wasatch Front just doubled with gas prices in under a year, we are ruining our health via our air, our lake is drying out which could result in arsenic in our airshed. It’s time for us to adapt our Wastch Front cities to the reality of greater population density. We need to allow zoning changes for more bike paths, tiny homes and transit options: unaffordable housing cannot be the new normal. Many of those who have lived here
for years don't want to see changes. So perhaps it’s time to become migrant nomads and find a better place to live that offers affordable housing and a slower pace of life. We have a story about how wonderful South American retirement is in this issue. Moving to suite lifestyle has become the new normal. We moved to Murray from Sugar House to buy a larger home for our kids, and to “urban homestead”, planting a big garden in a much larger yard: soon we will have chickens and we will live off the fat of the land. But we keep asking: where are the other kids? We rarely see them outside. Most are inside playing on gaming consoles. What happened to the neighborhood games of hide-and-goseek? Kick the can? Where are the kids running around all day in the summer, as I did just 30 years ago? Am I the only one who finds this indoor summer TV watching phenomenon incredibly strange? “Free-range kids” were once the norm, but now they’re a weird phenomenon. Everyone needs to get outside and have fun. Get away from the screens! (except for when you are watching the Utah Stories Show). In July we celebrate the fun we can have in the summer in Utah. Besides driving destinations, we highly recommend treking the Wasatch by transit and bike: check out the amazing Jordan River Parkway (and our video about it coming out soon). We will be offering videos and stories about the best bike paths along the Wasatch Front. Share with us your favorite trails all month by using the hashtag #Utahjulyfun.
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More Utahns are moving abroad
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Otto Mileti surfing in Guatemala.
second homes in Mexico and Central America. In fact, the trend of Americans becoming ex patriots, or expats, has grown since the March 2020 Covid lockdowns as people are fed up with anxiety and the upsurge in violent crime, mass and school shootings, fentanyl overdose deaths, a cooling economy and partisan political wrangling. The U.S. State Department estimates there were roughly 10 million citizens living abroad in 2020, which is more than double the number of Americans residing overseas in 1999, when the same department reported it to be 4 million. And in 2021, Taiwan, Mexico, and Costa Rica were the best expat destinations worldwide, according to InterNations.org, a website that connects expats and gives them tips for settling
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n 1969, Otto Mileti and his best friend cruised in his Chevy panel truck for three days, headed to Guatemala City from the University of Texas in Austin. The goal of the road trip was to visit Mileti’s college girlfriend who was Guatemalan. While there, his future and ex-wife, Carmen, showed him Lake Atitlan, Central America’s deepest and most picturesque lake in the highlands of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range. Little did he know he would buy a vacation house there decades later in 2007. “It’s a really incredibly beautiful place to hang out,” said Mileti, who is the founder of The Zephyr Club, a once-thriving downtown live music venue that closed in 2004 after a 20year run. The Zephyr attracted many top-notch acts, including Emmylou Harris, John Mayer and the Black Crows. Mileti is one of a growing number of Utahns either moving to or buying
in 420 cities globally. His advice for anyone considering putting down roots abroad: “Before you decide to move, you should live there for a few months,” he said. “Going in blind is tough. And realize it’s a third world, and there is going to be third world stuff happening.” About a three-hour drive from Guatemala’s only major airport and accessible only by boat, his home on Lake Atitlan is surrounded by bright blue water and flanked by three verdant mountains. You can sit in the hot tub and daydream away with stunning views. “I wake up and look outside, and I see three volcanoes,” he said. “It is the most beautiful lake in the world.” Kym and Dan Meehan of Park City
also fell in love with and bought a place in another nation that they had vacationed at starting decades ago. After retiring from the property management company they founded in the 80s, the Park City couple moved to Los Barriles, a fishing village in Mexico located on the southern tip of Baja California Sur, a Mexican state south of the Golden State. Avid windsurfers who love the ocean and beach, the couple were ready for a change and sold their Deer Valley home and now have a house on the shore. They first purchased a trailer and put it in a trailer park before tricking it out, adding a second level and outdoor bathroom. “We had such little quality time with each other and our children,” Kym said.
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The view from Mileti’s home on Lake Atitlan with a volcanic mountain in the background.
“We needed to run away to get away. Los Barriles proved just the spot.” One of their main reasons for emigrating to Mexico aside from escaping their hectic life here was to show their children how to live a simpler and happier existence without all of the material trappings of growing up in an affluent area like Summit County. “We loved it there and taught our then children (2 and 4) that not all life and families were like those from Park City, Utah,” Kym said. “We were accepted into the Mexican community and eventually bought a trailer in a trailer park we considered better than the richest mansion in the world. We were able to navigate the laws of Mexico feeling comfortable with our purchase, and more and more a part of our community.” Los Barriles was ranked fourth in the top 10 retirement spots on the Baja peninsula by Insider Monkey, a blog dedicated to investment and retirement. The ranking was determined by
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taking into account variables like small town life, healthcare availability, cost of living, weather, crime and shopping. Scoring high on everything but shopping, Los Barriles is 65 miles south of La Paz, the capital, and is home to about 1,200 people. Los Barriles is renowned for its fly fishing, kitesurfing, windsurfing and pickleball facilities, a sport that combines tennis, badminton and ping-pong. Chatting from a tour of Peru with her family, Kym said she has no regrets about becoming a dual citizen. She feels a sense of community in Los Barriles and hopes her family appreciates how lucky they are to live in such an enticing locale. “I feel safer than in my own country, truly,” Kym said. “The media focuses on horrific cartel murders and violence, and it does exist. But they are after each other — not me. I have no business buying drugs and being out late in dangerous parts of the country. I bet the worst violence is in my beloved USA!”
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STATE ARBORETUM A tree-mendous collection of trees By Connie Lewis he University of Utah is home to many things: a world-class cancer research center and hospital, a winning football team, and some of the top researchers in the country. But did you know the U is also home to the state arboretum? Though people may recognize the state bird — California gull, the state tree — Quaking aspen, and even the state flower — Sego Lily, many are surprised to find the state has an official arboretum. How did it come about?
View from President's Circle of just some of the many trees on campus.
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Suzie Middleton works for Geographical Information Systems (GIS) on campus. She is a certified arborist and she originally came to inventory and map every single tree species on campus and helped create the current tree tour. She says of the arboretum founding, “In 1930, Dr. Walter P. Cottam, co-founder of The Nature Conservancy and chairman of the Botany
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Department at the University of Utah, on campus. Along with the trees, he and began using campus land for plant his team take care of the grass, shrubs, research. For more than 30 years, he flower beds, and all landscaping. evaluated plants to determine their Managing the grounds, Walker works adaptability to our region.” with 4 certified arborists, and a staff In 1961, the Utah State Legislature of about 34. The biggest challenge the formally recognized Cottam’s imlast few years has been dealing with pressive collection by designating the drought conditions. “Even if we cut University’s campus landscape as the water on the grass or shrub beds we State Arboretum. The original legistake care of the trees,” says Walker. lation mandated that the Arboretum Besides irrigation, the crew do winter “provide resources and facilities for cleanup in the spring, work with an cultivating a greater knowledge integrated pest management and public appreciation team, look for disease and for the trees and plants fertilize depending on around us, as well as the needs of each those growing in species. remote sections of It is easy to tour the country and the arboretum world.”” on campus with Cottam was a downloadable initially dismap. Middleton mayed by plans helped to write to fill in the gulch descriptions of the Suzie Middleton, Certified Arborist, works at the just north of Pioneer trees and took phoUniversity cataloging the trees Theater. He was intos. She also helped in the state arboretum. strumental in halting that install the plaques with plan and went on to use the QR codes associated with some campus as his lab. He planted native, of the trees to provide more informanon-native and exotics, and experition about individual trees. The plaques mented with hybrids. His philosophy are part of a grant under the Sustainwas “Let’s plant it and see if it grows.” able Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF). Cottam’s Gulch was named for him, It started as a student project with 50 and contains some of the largest species participants and expanded to 100. of trees on campus. There are many spectacular trees on Sue Pope is the open space manager. campus, and each member of the team She works with the planning departhas a favorite. ment and “anything to do with changes Middleton’s favorite is a Japanese and whatever will impact the UniversiZelkova located on the west lawn and ty’s landscape.” planted by Cottam. It is on the national John Walker, in charge of the big tree registry. “It is a large and beaumaintenance of 700 acres of irrigated tiful tree, especially in the fall when landscape, manages and takes care of the leaves turn golden yellow,” says the arboretum and all the landscaping Middleton.
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are national and state champions for size including a Mongolian Oak and a Hardy Rubber Tree — not trees you’d typically think of finding in Utah. There is so much more to explore, and the best way to do it is in person. More than one trip may be needed in order to experience the trees in different seasons. In spring the blossoms are in full swing, summer brings canopies and shade, fall colors light up campus, and in winter you can see the bare bones of the trees. My favorite turned out to be a Cork Oak. In Italy they harvest cork from the outside bark making it a renewable resource. The bark is spongy to the touch and grows back when cut. Discovering your new favorite tree is only a tour away.
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Pope’s favorites are the black locust and elm trees found at Fort Douglas and planted by the early pioneers. She also loves the Osage orange behind the chapel at Fort Douglas and says, ”I really like sycamores. They are huge and provide lots of shade, but can be messy. You can find them all along the middle campus between the bookstore and the Union Building.” Walker is partial to the Himalayan pine south of the new soccer field, and the American Yellowwood north of the KUED building. It is one he personally worked to save when a new parking lot went in. He also says it gets beat up a lot because it is by the frisbee golf course, “but it survives.” There are 17 trees on campus, with an additional 19 at Red Butte Garden, also part of the state arboretum, that
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Land of dinosaurs Utah’s natural history is older than dirt
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ay the word ‘dinosaur’, and most kids’ eyes light up with excitement! Imagine if you will, a Utah where vast savannah-like plains surrounded the waters of an ancient sea — where gigantic four-limbed behemoths lived and died, sometimes violently. These creatures are still here, but today they’re encased in stone. Utah’s reputation as a prehistoric graveyard is well established. Known the world over for new and prolific dinosaur discoveries, Utah’s paleontological past has consistently introduced the world to a number of extinct ancient creatures both large and small.
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Utah even claims its own state fossil — the flesh-eating Allosaurus — a theropod dinosaur that inhabited an ancient landscape and climate that was vastly different from the Utah we know today. “Allosaurus fragilis was designated Utah’s State Fossil in 1988. This is not to be confused with Utahraptor ostrom maysi, which was designated Utah’s State Dinosaur in 2018,” says Carrie Levitt-Bussian, Paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah. “Utah is an amazing place for fossils. There are so many different-aged rocks exposed at the surface, which makes
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Utah an ideal place for paleontology. The Natural History Museum of Utah has the largest collection of Allosaurus fragilis specimens anywhere in the world. This is due to the plethora of specimens — over 12,000 bones — excavated from Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry near Price, Utah. There are also many Allosaurus found at Dinosaur National Monument, also in Utah. The abundance of Allosaurus found in these quarries is what made this dinosaur Utah’s state fossil.” The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is the site of Utah’s very own Jurassic Park. Located in Emery County in east-central Utah, about 30 miles south of Price, and run by the Bureau of Land Management under the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Jurassic National Monument complex sits in the heart of the Jurassic Morrison rock formation — a rich, bone-bearing strata. Along with Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, they are two of the most concentrated sources of new dinosaur discoveries in the world today. Vast stretches of Navajo Sandstone throughout the state also reveal large dinosaur track sites, many near Moab, proving that parts of Utah were indeed the literal stomping grounds for a variety of prehistoric beasts. The imposing sandstone monoliths that comprise Utah’s national parks were once sand dunes where a variety of ancient fauna did their best to survive in a hostile environment. Natural history museums throughout the world display mounted dinosaur skeletons that were excavated at the fossil-rich Cleveland-Lloyd quarry. Most are replicas, but many include at
least some original fossil bones. Since its discovery in 1929 by University of Utah scientists, the quarry has revealed more than 12,000 bones from about 70 individual dinosaurs, most of them carnivores. According to the BLM, “These bones have been reassembled and displayed in museums throughout the world. More to the point is the fact that the deposit is the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur bones ever found.” Unlike theropods, sauropod dinosaurs were herbivorous eating machines. They were enormous terrestrial creatures from the Mesozoic Era, which spanned more than 250 million years, and included three time periods; the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Weighing in at 25 to 50 tons, with bloated bodies, long necks and tails, tiny heads and even tinier brains, sauropods comprise the largest group of land animals that ever shook the earth with their massive size and weight. The first sauropod dinosaur found in Utah was discovered on the 1859 Macomb Expedition to southeastern Utah. It was named Dystrophaeus viaemalae, and is housed at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Utah’s other dinosaur treasure trove is in the Uintah Basin near Vernal, where 2000 exposed bones lie partially excavated on a cliff face. What 10-yearold kid visiting Dinosaur National Monument, aka “Dinosaur Land”, hasn’t been awe-struck by the embedded bones and life-size reconstructions of creatures so big that it almost takes a child’s imagination to believe they were once alive? When it comes to dinosaurs, isn’t there an imaginative 10-year-old inside all of us?
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Dog days of summer Dining out with your canine companion
Is there anything better during the hottest months of summer in Utah than sitting on a shady, misted patio and enjoying an evening with family, friends and furry besties? This summer, dog owners can take their pups to dozens of restaurant patios in Salt Lake and Park City to sit down for a beer, a bagel or a burger with their four-legged friend. Pastry Chef Romina Rasmussen, who owns Les Madeleines in downtown Salt Lake City, is participating in the official
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Salt Lake County Health Department dog patio program for the second year in a row. “We love being part of our neighborhood and our community and this allows the furry members to join us with their humans,” she says. “It’s quite a process, but I think it’s worth the effort so our guests who want to come in with their furry friends can (as long as they are properly licensed). And this way, guests who aren’t there with their dogs know that we are following strict
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guidelines to provide a hygienic experience for them as well.” To receive dog patio approval, restaurants have to submit a HACCP safety plan, follow a list of patron and animal-related rules, and pay a fee each year. You can read the full list of requirements at https://slco.org/health/food-protection/dog-patio/. With these health and safety rules in place, dog owners can rest assured that their furry friend will be welcomed at the table too. “Some of our cutest customers have been of the canine variety,” Rasmussen observes. The following locations have applied for and received a Salt Lake County and Summit County variance permitting them to allow dogs on their outdoor dining patios for 2022 summer dining:
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Joey and Scamps taking a break with their humans at Stratford Proper patio.
Campfire Lounge loves their fourlegged friends so much that not only do they allow properly registered dogs on the patio, they also team up with local rescues each month to share adoptable pets that are looking for new homes. Two of the Proper Brewing establishments, Proper Burger and Stratford Proper, offer dog-friendly patios. When asked why they would go to the extra effort of having their patios approved by the Health Department, the folks at Proper explained that all of them are huge dog lovers, and knowing that Salt Lake is a large dog community, they try to make all their patios dog friendly if possible. They cannot wait for their third location, Craft, located in Sugar House, to be approved as well. After a “ruff” day of shopping in Newpark Town Center or a visit to Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter. Humans and dogs can also relax on the spacious patio at Hearth and Hill. In honor of Hearth and Hill’s love for canines, each of the $7 mocktails are named after staff members’ dogs. The mocktail menu includes: Jack’s Juice, Layla’s Lemonade,
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Tank's Twist and Boone’s Beach. Dogs get their own water bowl and a treat and toy to take home. “My dogs are my family and I take them along whenever I can. Being able to go out to dinner with them is a big deal,” says Salt Lake dog owner Amelia Schmidt. “Dogs are great conversation starters. My Irish setter, especially, attracts lots of comments and questions. It is easy to meet new people and make new friends when dining out with my dogs.” Katie Johnson, manager at Stratford Proper, says, "Dogs are most popular during dinner and pretty common during brunch on Saturdays and Sundays. My staff is always very careful about food safety and cleanliness regarding our patios and the dogs, but we all love seeing them. There are certain things we do to make sure we’re still abiding by our license to have dogs on the patios, but it does make everybody smile anytime we see one come in." So take those leashed and well-behaved pups for a night out on the town. After all, they deserve it!
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BACK IN TIME Moab’s Apache motel’s new owners breathe new life while preserving the past.
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Burke and Nicole Priest.
wo figures stand outside the door of Moab’s
ers for smaller overnight rentals for many
Apache Motel: a weather-proofed lifesize
years, though this is their first time owning a
cardboard cutout of the western film icon
motel-style lodging property. They’re excited
John Wayne, in a cowboy hat and a pistol
to join Moab’s hospitality industry. They had
hanging at his side; and a lifesize statue of
been visiting Moab since the 1990s before
a Native American man with feathers in his
moving to town in 2011. Since buying the
hair and a quiver of arrows at his feet. They
Apache, they’ve been updating it to include
harken back to an era when a fantasy version
modern technology and amenities. But,
of “Cowboys and Indians” dominated Hol-
Priest said, they’re also careful to maintain
lywood: the 1950s, which is also the decade
the vintage feel and unique character of the
when Moab experienced the uranium boom
motel, which was once a hub where Holly-
that transformed it from a small western
wood glamor met small-town hospitality,
outpost to a bustling industrial town full of
with a backdrop of the “wild west” narratives
rags-to-riches dreamers.
of movies filmed near town.
“Anyone that comes to Moab, or lives in
Renowned director John Ford frequent-
Moab, or spends any time in Moab cer-
ly used Southeast Utah and sites around
tainly knows the Apache Motel as kind of
Moab for his genre-defining western films,
a landmark of the town,” said Burke Priest,
including Fort Apache, (1948); She Wore A Yellow
who, with his wife Nicole, bought the motel
Ribbon, (1949); Rio Grande, (1950); and Wagon
in 2021. The motel’s bright yellow sign fixed
Master, (1950). The Apache Motel was built
to a post shaped like a feathered arrow is an
following this string of productions.
eye-catching reference point. “It’s been there
One story claims that the motel was
since 1955 and it’s on what was the original
named after Fort Apache, though it’s uncer-
Main Street,” Priest said.
tain. Director George Sherman’s The Battle at
The Priests have been property manag-
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Apache Pass (1952) was also filmed in the area
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and could have inspired the name. Whatever the inspiration for the motel’s
past was still tangible in the motel when he and Nicole first bought the place and started
name, it’s the association with Hollywood
renovating. He referred to these energies as
stars that lingers there today. Silver screen
“non-paying guests.”
cowboy John Wayne, who starred in many
“They would be on the stairs in places
of John Ford’s movies, is said to have stayed
where you needed to go, and there was
there for months at a time, along with other
resistance,” he said. Early guests would report
actors and members of the film industry. A
hearing repetitive sounds at night or finding
photo displayed on the lobby wall shows the
things lightly rearranged in their rooms in
famous actor posing with two Moabites in
the morning. The Priests contacted a Moab
their teenage years: Carl Rappe, who later
local who specializes in transitioning spirits,
founded Moab’s local radio station, and
and who was able to help the energies or
David Sakrison, who later served as mayor of
spirits move out of the building. Priest said
Moab and opened a corner store that’s still in operation today. Guests can choose to stay in the John Wayne suite, the same set of rooms where “The Duke” would make himself at home on trips to Moab. A recent guest in the suite, traveling with her grandkids, said she’s stayed in there several times over the past eight years. Her mother and stepfather stayed in the suite on their honeymoon, as well. “We’ve stayed at motels in other places, but this one we know will be perfect,” she said. While comfort items in the rooms—like
the mysterious occurrences have since stopped.
climate control, water pressure, and entry
The motel has been busy with regular,
systems—have been updated, the Priests
flesh-and-blood guests, though. Priest says
retained many of the decades-old furnishings
they’ve been full most nights. His two sisters,
and décor, preserving a genuine feeling of a
one of whom recently moved to Moab, and
bygone era. In the John Wayne suite, a dress-
the other who lives in northern Utah, have
er in dark-colored wood with a wavy-edged
pitched in to help manage the business, mak-
top stands across from a four-poster bed, also
ing it a family venture.
in dark-colored wood and covered with a dense quilt. Priest said that the very energy from the
“We love being there and are just thrilled with the opportunity to buy the Apache Motel and bring it back to life,” Priest said.
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he winter snow isn’t the only place to get your ski on in Utah. Jet skiing is a popular activity for adventure seekers and relaxation connoisseurs alike. Utahns love jet skiing for many reasons. Trevor Stauffer says he loves drifting around, doing donuts and watching the wakes he creates. Mikayla Sanders says she can go anywhere she wants to let her mind clear. Bret Hansen loves the wind flowing through his hair as he is “hitting the waves.” Katelyn Bindrup Kopecky says it makes her
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feel alive and helps her recognize how beautiful our world truly is. There are Facebook groups dedicated to jet skiing, jet ski meetups, and companies all across the state that offer jet ski classes and rentals. It is no wonder people love it so much — a day on the water is a great way to spend time with family and friends and studies have even shown that jet skiing can show health benefits such as muscle strengthening, improved balance, stress relief, and improved blood circulation. This
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options for pass purchases, and the nearby amenities. Many jet-skiers coming from out-of-the-area stay at nearby campsites or lodging options. You can access Pineview Reservoir via Trapper’s Loop or Ogden Canyon, which makes it easy for visitors to get there no matter which direction they’re coming from. Twitter user Hailey Higgins shared that, “Jet skiing at Pineview is my most favorite thing to do in the whole wide world.” People living in Ogden take day trips to Pineview all summer long, and it remains a top destination every year, making jet skiing and other lake activities in the area extremely popular. If you want to give a water ski a whirl but don’t want to buy one of your own, you can rent one from a company like Club Powersports who specialize in rentable machines. Club Powersports has large inventory of professionally managed and maintained power sports equipment and watercraft. While jet skiing is a blast, it is important to follow safety guidelines: Always wear protective equipment like a life jacket, eye protection and a wetsuit if it is chilly; Do not operate the jet ski in less than 24 inches of water; Keep a safety whistle and fire extinguisher handy; And keep your clothes, limbs and hair away from the pump intake. You will also want to ensure you are following title and registration requirements as outlined on dmv.utah. gov and checking the lake’s rules and regulations before choosing to use it for watersports. Remember: keep the water clean, yourself safe, and your hat secured. Have a great summer on the water here in the Beehive State!
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tah restaurants span international cuisines ranging from Latin America and Europe, to Asia, Africa and even Australia. But did you know that you can also explore global cuisines via Utah’s food trucks? Yep. If it’s international fare you’re hankering for, it’s time to get truckin’. Let’s start with Europe. The Brugesmobile and Bruges Waffle Bus are the mobile outposts of the brick and mortar Bruges Belgian Bistro, which serves up authentic Belgian-style waffles, frites, and crowd favorites like the Machine Gun Sandwich. For German fare on the go, look no further than Weller’s Döner Wagon, the home of the original German döner kebab. In addition to scrumptious döner sandwiches and kebabs, Jan Weller’s food truck dishes up schnitzel, falafel, currywurst, pommes, brats, curry frikadelle, desserts and more. And for Neapolitan-style pizza that an Italian would adore, grab a slice or entire pie from Fire and Slice Wood-Fired Pizza, which appears regularly at Wheeler Farm Sunday Market. Fresh savory and sweet crêpes are the modus operandi for Chef Maxime Ambeza’s Monsieur Crêpes, which has vegan
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and vegetarian crêpe options in addition to menu items like the Versailles, with French brie, prosciutto, tomato, spinach and herbs de Provence. For the flavors of West Africa, head to Ibou Fall’s Balabé food truck where you’ll discover Senagalese cuisine and menu items that range from a rich peanut butter stew of veggies and tubers called mafé or tiep jenn — fish with fried rice and vegetables — to a classic Senegalese curry named thiou, and lamb with fried rice known as jolof. Namesh Swahili Cuisine is a truck and catering service where Chef Najati serves foods like tuna or veggie sambusa, chickpea bhajia, rice cooked with beef or goat called pilau, chicken curry, biryani, and other delish dishes. South America is well-represented by trucks like The Llama Truck with a menu featuring lomo saltado, salchipapas, parillda Peruvian-style barbecue, ceviche, chicharron sandwiches, and drinks such as chicha morada. The Made in Brazil food truck dishes up — you guessed it — tantalizing Brazilian cuisine ranging from the national dish feijoada (savory black bean stew with beef
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and pork), coxinhas, brigadeiro, and salads. More Peruvian fare is to be found at the Red Food Truck, serving pollo a la brasa, asado de puerco, pollo saltado, sliders and other tempting from scratch foods. There are an abundance of food trucks here serving Mexican fare that go way beyond the standard taco cart. The Sobe Eats food truck menu is an eclectic one with temptations like the banh mi torta, rice bowls (spicy shrimp, tuna poke, birria, tinga & veggie), tacos, tostadas, mocktails and much more. At the Facil Taqueria truck, you’ll find farm-to-table south-of-the-border fare such as tacos with fillings like Niman Ranch pork, beef short ribs, Mary’s Chicken tinga, and a Local Farm Taco that is vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free. Enjoy the sweetness of delicious churros from San Diablo Artisan Churros, which offers up gourmet fillings including decadent dulce de leche, Nutella and sweet cream, chocolate ganache, strawberry lemonade and coconut cream. Silver Moon Taqueria is the truck for hand-trimmed steak tacos, seasoned grilled fish, big bad burritos, homemade quesadillas, from scratch salsas and other tasty things. The Maize food truck specializes in homemade tamales and tacos with delicious handmade corn tortillas. And Maize offers flavors you might not find elsewhere, such as lobster and surf & turf tacos, with a side of nopales or paletas. If you haven’t encountered the ubiquitous Cupbop Korean BBQ truck, you
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probably haven’t left the house in a while. In addition to killer Korean bbq, the mandu dumplings are divine. Asian-style cups are also well represented at MisoYUM, including noodle and rice cups with honey glazed chicken, savory pork, veggies, potstickers and more. Mongolian BBQ and Chinese cuisine are the main attractions at Harry’s Food Truck, with a menu that ranges from General Tso’s chicken and veggie spring rolls to shrimp, tofu, fried rice and potstickers. Thieps Eats specializes in Asian street food like pho, takoyaki, spring rolls, rice bowls, mango sweet rice, and more. Yoshi’s Enso Grill offers rice bowls, sushi, gyoza, teriyaki, egg rolls and other tempting Asian dishes, while the Bento Truck dishes up Japanese comfort food like curries, yakisoba and teriyaki. The Ramen Mobile serves delicious noodle dishes with homemade broths and a variety of toppings, and Crunchy Munchy has famous Filipino lumpia rolls, pancit and such. Mediterranean and Middle Eatern items like Lebanese manouche, wraps, kebabs and shawarma are found at the Manouche food truck. The Falafel Tree truck serves, yes, falafel as well as kabobs, dolmathes, hummus, Mediterranean salads and more, while the Fab Pharoah dishes up fresh, homemade Egyptian and Mediterranean dishes. For more food truck fun, plan to attend the Food Truck Face Off 2022 on Saturday, July 16th at Liberty Park, Utah’s largest food truck rally for charity.
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ucked away on a side road off 300 West is the Dented Brick Distillery. The spirits distillery is not only a functioning entity, it is also literally built upon the legacy and land of an early pioneer distiller, Hugh Moon. With the war raging in Ukraine, consumers are not purchasing as much Russian vodka. Managing Member Marc Christensen is energetic and speaks quickly and enthusiastically about The Dented Brick and its products which include vodka. “It has been our number one seller even before this, and it’s been growing pretty rapidly, so I don’t know if it is contributing to our increased sales or not,” he said.
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Not only is The Dented Brick distributing widely in Utah, it also distributes in Washington (state), Wyoming, Arizona, Missouri, New York and Florida. “I’ve gotten into some really cool, fun dining establishments in New York,” Christensen said. So far, Christensen and his associates’ marketing and products have increased sales steadily. Though canned cocktails have come on the scene, they have no plans to jump on the bandwagon to stay competitive. Another factor which makes The Dented Brick competitive is the artesian well used onsite. “It’s very mineral-rich water, which is fantastic,”
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vodka, Dented Brick also offers rum. Their “Glitter Rums,” so named because there are literally iridescent particles throughout, sparkle in the bottle. Mango, passion fruit, pineapple and
Christensen said. “The chemicals in city water — chlorine, fluorine, bromine — all those things are detrimental to the fermentation. We don’t have any of those chemicals in the well water, and the minerality improves fermentation even more, creating esters that are not found in other spirits brands.” The well was used by early pioneer settler and distiller Hugh Moon. “The Moon family was the first family that was converted to Mormonism overseas,” Christensen said. “They sailed across from Liverpool, England. Hugh Moon and his brother were both literate, and they wrote detailed journals. And in fact, Brigham Young commanded Hugh Moon to keep a journal of his experience of converting to the church.” In a surprising anecdotal note, Mormon settlers were commanded by Brigham Young to only buy their whiskey from Moon. In honor of the first recorded distiller in Utah, The Dented Brick created a commemorative whiskey, “Hugh Moon White Whiskey.” In addition to their whiskey and
disco nut coconut are nice summer tropical additions to any cocktail. The pineapple glitter rum is sweet, beautiful to look at, and stands alone as a single offering. Trained as a distiller primarily in Kentucky, Christensen noted that Utah is known for its tough liquor laws. However, he asserts that it is actually middle-of-the-road in comparison to other states. “In some of the states in the South, you have to ship your product
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to the state warehouse, and they don’t pay you until they sell it,” Christensen said. One of the benefits of distributing in Utah is that there is only the State to deal with instead of numerous liquor distributors. Overall, he believes that the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services is heading in a good direction. Christensen is particularly impressed with the Executive Director, Tiffany Clason. “She’s trying to provide more education to staff as far as getting people to get their wine certifications,” Christensen said. Putting products in Utah liquor stores is competitive. “You have to apply for a listing, they call it, and they ask you
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what your budget is for the year,” Christensen said. It’s difficult for local, small distilleries to compete with national or international liquor distributors whose budgets are big. However, Clason is attempting to showcase Utah-made alcohol. One of the most desired advertising tools in Utah is a “shelf talker.” Shelf talkers are descriptions of an alcohol product directly on a liquor shelf. Obtaining one of these is not easy. Christensen is thrilled to be in Utah operating a distillery and even more thrilled to be on the very property of the first-known distiller in Utah. There’s something literally in the water that makes it so great.
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ground up Utah entrepreneur brings culture, history and geology to downtown Salt Lake. By Amiee Maxwell t a time when historic buildings are being leveled and small businesses are being driven out of downtown Salt Lake City to make room for more multi-level condos, Kathie Chadbourne has created a little sanctuary in the dust of downtown. “It doesn’t matter where we are, we can create our little bit of heaven,” she says about the tiny oasis she’s created on East Broadway Street. “All my loves are in one little space right now — rocks, coffee, and beautiful plants,” she says about her new shop, From the Ground Up. Chadbourne is best known for her previous restaurant endeavors including the Avenues Bistro, a once-beloved neighborhood farm-to-table restaurant on Third Avenue. But, for the past thirty years, the idea of a rock shop was always in the back of her mind. In the post-pandemic climate, putting her energy into a new restaurant didn’t seem like the best idea, so she thought, why not sell the rocks she’s been hauling around with her for years? “It just came together like
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magic,” when a little space opened up on Broadway, she says. Located just a few doors down from what is to become Salt Lake’s tallest building, the Astra Tower and its 39 floors of luxury apartments, and nestled between a nail salon and barber shop, From the Ground Up is certainly an oasis in an otherwise parched downtown district. In fact, the sound of running water emanating from a curious collection of horned instruments on the wall was one of the first things I noticed when entering her shop. From the windows in her apartment above the shop she can see at least five new buildings currently under construction, “And here I am a little tiny rock shop in the middle of it all,” she says.
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In addition to her expansive collection of local rocks, the shop also features Native American art, including works by the current artist-in-residence, Michael Haswood, jewelry, and unique gifts. My eyes couldn’t help but be drawn to the giant hunks of polished petrified wood on a display table, a wall clock simply stating the time is “now”, and the huge array of sparkling crystals slowly spinning around in a giant rotating pastry case. There’s also a small coffee bar in the back where she’s proud to donate ten percent of coffee
purchases to Utah Dine Bikeyah, an Indigenous-led nonprofit that works to protect culturally significant ancestral lands, including those in Bears Ears National Monument. Walking into From the Ground Up is like being transported into someone’s eccentric aunt’s living room, and Chadbourne fits the part. She calls herself a bit of a Mother Earth person and I couldn’t help but feel instantly welcomed and calmed by her presence. It is easy to tell she sincerely loves what she’s doing.
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Chadbourne describes her store as being much more than just rocks, but a place to hold real conversations, whether it be about the developments in Salt Lake City, the ongoing homelessness problem she observes daily from the vantage point of her shop, and the state of the environment in general. She says it’s sad to see so much growth downtown, especially in a state where everyone seems to be talking about drought all the time. “Water is not an inheritance,” she says, “and we need to watch over it,” and having a place to hold these types of conversations is the real purpose of her shop. Despite the changes to downtown, Chadbourne says she still loves downtown Salt Lake City. “I live and breathe downtown and I see beautiful things
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happening here even though they are building a 30+ floor building right next to me.” Ironically, her shop has become popular with several high-rise construction workers that have come to rely on her for their morning coffee. People really miss the little small businesses downtown, she says. “Almost every single day someone walks in my shop and says, ‘gosh I really love your shop and I wish we had more.’” For now, she says, she’s very happy to be part of it all and is happy to provide a cold drink and plenty of pretty things to look at, which is a welcome contrast to all the construction that surrounds her. She has twenty months left on her lease and she’s crossing her fingers there will be the opportunity for many more.
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Horse and Hitch Parade in Ogden. This parade is held from 7pm to 9pm from Park Blvd. to 28th Street on Washington Blvd. This Horse & Hitch event is one of the finest in Utah, and everyone is invited to bring horses, wagons, and carriages to ride with hundreds of fellow entries.
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July 23 starting at 9am, will be on display at the Mountain America Expo Center, 9575 South State Street, from 11am to 9pm each day. Participants can vote for their favorite float and admission is free.
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International Market. Held at the Utah State Fairgrounds, 155 N 1000 W, the International Market will feature ethnically-diverse foods, goods by artisans from around the world, and globally represented entertainment. The event starts at 2pm.
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Mega Peruvian Festival 2022. Hours are July 29 at 4:00 pm (Fri) and July 30 at 12:00 pm (Sat) at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on 279 S 300 W, Salt Lake City. Celebrate Peruvian Culture with folklore, arts, live music, and from their website, “arguably the best food in the world.”
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