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    Rio Tinto Kennecott Visitor Experience

    4.5 (12 reviews)

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    Road up to open pit mine
    Mindi A.

    Newly opened tours of Kennecott Copper Mine. Tickets for tour are required and can be purchased online. Once they are sold out they are full for the day. We risked it and did walk up for tickets at the gift shop. It was about 11am on a Sunday. The bus was nearly full. Maybe 5 empty seats. You take an air conditioned bus up into the mine. They drop you off and it's self guided. The bus driver on the way up didn't have a microphone so we could hardly hear him. Especially hard for my hard of hearing daughter and some Other older passengers. Up top the center is all outside so dress for the elements. Porta potties are your bathrooms at the bottom (visitor center ) as well as up top. Busses run every half hour, I believe. Half hour was enough for me and my three Kids to read all The info and take Pictures.

    Damkee ..

    Pretty cool mine outside Salt Lake City. The size is big, and apparently it's also one of the very few things visible from space. You purchase a ticket to shuttle up to the top, and it's a self-guided tour then. Expect to spend about an hour to an hour & half.

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    I had visited the mine many years ago and a lot has changed since a landslide forced the visitor center to be closed for 6 years.

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    MountainBased - Under Canvas

    MountainBased

    4.7(22 reviews)
    19.4 miDowntown, Peoples Freeway

    I'm so glad we booked this trip with Mountain Based! My daughter and I wanted to go to Utah but…read moresince we are not experienced hikers, I wanted to hire private guides. Ended up seeing all the amazing reviews for Mountain Based and asked my family if they wanted to go too. Everyone was super excited and the Mighty 5 national parks hotel tour did not disappoint!!! Tyler and Eric were hands down - amazing. Great drivers, funny, attentive, able to split themselves into infinite pieces to cover all the different speeds of my family members hiking. Tyler even knew I desperately wanted a photo at delicate arch but my wobbly fear of heights legs would not take me over to the photo spot so he offered to escort me there and back and be our photographer! The drives between parks were not bad at all - plenty of gas station stops along the way. The restaurants they took us to were delicious and the employees of the restaurants treated us like gold. The weather was a little toasty in June but it was still GREAT fun. Lots of history, information, facts, tips, safety from our guides. When we asked them for specific things like - taking a group photo at each of the National Park signs - the guides didn't grumble - they made the photos fun! And they remembered! They were sure to offer tons of photos and photostops! Thanks again Mountain Based! We already booked the family again for Yellowstone next year!!!! Whoooohooooo

    It was amazing. The cost is really good. Without the knowledgeable guides, it would've cost us so…read moremuch more and we wouldn't have even gotten to do half of the things we did. A must do! Beautiful sites, hikes, great knowledge and wonderful friends. They know the good spots and times to go. Where the "Flushing toilet" are, imo we're a great thing they knew. ; )= Being able to just enjoy all the beauty and not having to do all the research and driving and, and, and, and.... Makes them very worthy. Eric & Tyler were great and put up with all of us and were the perfect guides for our crazy (in a fun way) group. *Still calling the favorite Van*. hehehe

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    Local Food Walking Tours

    Local Food Walking Tours

    4.5(17 reviews)
    19.4 miDowntown, Peoples Freeway

    What a unique experience! There were changes with the overall group for this booking and Mo ended…read moreup taking me on my own personal one on one tour! Talk about integrity! So cool! We ended up at 3 unique and delicious stops I wouldn't have normally thought to try, and each was wonderful! At Antica Roma, I enjoyed Mushroom ravioli with truffle. So smooth... Pleiku Vietnamese introduced me to a fabulous Chicken basil. It had a bit of a kick and I worked around the onions and peppers but the chicken was to die for! Had a subtle crisp the was great! At Himalayan kitchen I got to sample several Indian bites: Coconut veggie curry, chicken tika masala and lamb curry with naan bread. All great but the chicken tika is unforgettable and the yogurt sauce for the naan so fresh and tasty! I enjoyed hearing Mo share our local history but even more than that, I loved learning about the lives the man changes thru his other businesses! Check out his mission at The Other Side where he works to support mental health and substance abuse recovery and works to rehabilitate those wanting to change their lives. He shares how many in his programs find their way thru addiction, homelessness and the legal system and change their lives thru The Other Side Academy (https://www.theothersideacademy.com/). Really cool to hear how communities have come together to support this mission. So glad I found myself to this tour and to have learned Mo's story. Definitely recommend this food tour. He also shared of his Hop On Hop Off bus tour and The Other Side Donuts for anyone wanting to support more of what he offers (slcbustours.com)

    Maxwell was so informative, entertaining, funny, and kind. The food was delicious! I highly…read morerecommend the experience.

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    Fox School of Wine - Utah Olympic Park group tours w Gold Medal wines

    Fox School of Wine

    4.6(13 reviews)
    32.9 mi

    We had the pleasure of doing wines and mines through a corporate event. Our tour guide Angela was…read morethe best, we couldn't believe it was her first day. She made the experience even better than we expected.

    Although Kirsten was a very kind, cheerful and knowledgeable woman with an amazing personality,…read morethis tour was unfortunately not even close to worth the $3000 we had paid like we hoped it would be. We spent most of the time in the van and when we did stop at the locations, we weren't able to go inside to tour any of them or even use a bathroom at them, we just stood in the driveways to learn about them. I admire her passion for teaching, but we cannot for the life of us figure out how our $3000 was spent. The wine was limited to an ounce every time, and whenever we asked for a second "glass" the lady pouring would say "well we want to make sure everyone gets some!" - the "snacks" were two tiny pieces of cheese inside of a ziplock baggie and there is no place to use any restroom throughout the course of the entire tour... mainly because the tour takes place only in a van and standing in driveways. For $3000, a nice suggestion would've been a charcuterie spread INSIDE of one of the locations with some tastings and every person at that price should at the very least have been able to go home with a bottle of wine from the tour. I give her credit for starting up a creative business in an extremely competitive tourist city, but I can't in good faith allow anyone else to pay so much money to go into this expecting a luxury experience, and end up getting yelled at by a bus driver and having to sneak around an old hospital just to pee. I really liked her as a person and hope she can take this advice and use it to work on creating a better experience for all.

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