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Life Sports & Recreation largest salt lake in North America, Utah lakes offer diversity like none other.
Water sports enthusiasts enjoy water skiing,
sailboarding, wakeboarding, and river running. The southern part of the state is worldrenowned for its whitewater rafting on the Green, Colorado, and San Juan Rivers. Photo: Steve Greenwood
The State is home to more than 630 species
of mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, and amphibians and most species are protected by state law. Given the proximity to the outdoors, wildlife watching is popular. For instance, every spring brings an influx of hundreds of bald eagles to
In summer or
mountains, to sparkling desert courses. When it
the shorelines of the Wasatch Front, within
winter, spring
comes to golf, Utah has it all.
range of millions. Wildlife spotters with keen
eyes can spot mountain goats which follow the
or fall, the
The quality of Salt Lake’s golf rivals the
choicest public courses in the country and
pasture up into the high cliffs in Little
Salt Lake area
features country-club-like course conditions.
Cottonwood Canyon as the snow melts, just a
offers a myriad
For example, the Golf Club at Thanksgiving
stone’s through from suburban Sandy, Utah.
Point, a Johnny Miller signature designed
course, ranked as one of the top 10 new courses
hunting activities. Deer remain the most
in the country at its founding. For more
popular big game. Elk, antelope, pheasant,
information, Utah golf vacations, Tee Times,
duck, goose, grouse, chukar partridge, wild
and “Stay & Play” golf packages, visit www.
turkey, are also popular game species.
of adventures.
Many Utahns also cherish traditional
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Utah’s deserts rival the deserts anywhere for
splendor and yet the State ranks sixth in the United States for the surface area of ‘boatable’ 100 bodies of water considered boatable and hundreds more lakes and ponds that you’ll long to linger near. But it’s not the number of lakes, but the diversity. From houseboating on the one-of-a-kind Lake Powell to fishing emerald waters in alpine forests, to floating freely in the 124
Photo: Courtesy Red Mountain Spa
water per capita. In fact Utah has more than