Things to do
The places we send guests: state parks and slot canyons, reservoirs, ski hills, and the tables locals actually eat at. Every one is on the map of the home it's near, with the drive time from the door.
Brian Head Resort
The highest base elevation in Utah, with the lifts a walk from most of the village.
Cedar Breaks National Monument
A half-mile-deep amphitheatre of orange rock at 10,000 feet, fifteen minutes from the village.
Deer Valley Resort
Groomed corduroy, short lift lines and no snowboards, a few minutes from Old Town.
Gooseberry Mesa
Slickrock mountain biking on a mesa above town, with the Zion skyline in view most of the way round.
Historic Main Street
Mining-era brick, galleries, and more bars per block than anywhere else in Utah, all on one walkable street.
Jordanelle State Park
A mountain reservoir twenty minutes down the hill — boats, paddleboards, and a swim beach with the Wasatch behind it.
Pineview Reservoir
Warm-water swimming and paddleboarding in Ogden Valley, ten minutes over the hill.
Quail Creek State Park
The warmest water in the county by late May, and quieter than Sand Hollow next door.
Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Short red-sand trails to waterfall pools and petroglyphs, in the reserve between Hurricane and St. George.
River Rock Roasting Company
Coffee, wood-fired pizza and a deck built out over the Virgin River gorge, on the road to Zion.
Sand Hollow State Park
Red rock standing in blue-green water with sand dunes behind it — the closest swimming, boating and dune riding to Hurricane.
Snow Canyon State Park
Petrified dunes, lava tubes and white-on-red sandstone in a canyon you can walk across in an afternoon.
Snowbasin Resort
The 2002 downhill mountain, fifteen minutes up Trappers Loop — big terrain and lodges that outclass the lift ticket.
Toquerville Falls
Desert waterfalls at the end of a rough road north of La Verkin — swimming holes with nobody selling anything.
Tuacahn Amphitheatre
Broadway musicals staged outdoors in a red-rock canyon, with 1,500-foot cliffs behind the set.
Utah Olympic Park
The 2002 bobsled track and ski jumps, still in use — with a museum, a zip line, and rides down the track for the brave.
Zion National Park
The canyon everyone comes for: the Narrows, Angels Landing, and the switchbacks climbing to the tunnel on the east side.