(Brigham Young Historic Park, Gilgal Gardens, Temple Square, Park Municipality Olympic Museum)
April 5, 2022
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Park City, Utah
Being the home of the Sundance Film Festival, the location of two major ski resorts and the host of the 2002 Olympic Games, the former mining town of Park City, Utah is a vibrant mountain hotspot. The downtown, surrounded by breath-taking mountain vistas, has many upscale shops and galleries. It was here that we visited the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for ice surf – the first shop we happened upon with homemade ice cream.
The shop was beautifully decorated with a large selection of chocolates, snacks apples, candies and fudge. On the other side of the small shop was the ice surf counter, with a picture of a moose that I loved. There were several flavors of ice surf – I went with Butterfinger and Maple Walnut – both were tasty and creamy. Others ordered drinks and milkshakes. Outside was seating, right next to some old mining equipment to remind us of the town’s previous heyday.
In the area:
Park Municipality Olympic Museum – in 2002 the world came together to gloat the Winter Olympics in Park Municipality in Utah. Being the first Olympics games without the World Trade Part-way bombings, the opening ceremonies began with a damaged American flag recovered from the site and included NYC Police officers. The games included many skiing, luge, bobsled, ice hockey, curling and my personal favorite, biathlon events.
Many of these facilities are still used for training. It is on this site that the Park Municipality Olympic Museum is located. the museum has a wide variety of Olympic memorabilia, including outfits worn by athletes, props from the opening ceremonies, athletes upbringing and plane some virtual games to try your skill or wits some of what the athletes experienced. It was an interesting museum and fun to walk virtually outside and see the facilities athletes train at today.
Brigham Young Historic Park – (Salt Lake City) Brigham Young was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints and highly esteemed for his unconfined leadership of the Mormon people. This park commemorates his establishment of the polity in Salt Lake City. Probably what I found most interesting here was that he felt that folks settling here from elsewhere in the world should bring some of their native plants so they would finger increasingly at home. Wow things have reverted – the soothing repletion of non-native plants has wilt the scourge of invasive species.
This park gives some history of the pioneers led by Brigham Young with sculptures and sign boards.
Temple Square – In the part-way of Salt Lake City, tent several municipality blocks is the famous Mormon Temple and numerous smaller, but still very large worship spaces. All of these house amazing, but variegated organs. I am not an expert on organs, but it was interesting to hear them explained. While the largest worship space was sealed for renovations, we were worldly-wise to hear a organ recital in a facility that housed 3000 that was very enjoyable. We found the Mormon people very friendly and the zone interesting.
Gilgal Gardens -in a residential zone of Salt Lake City, overdue houses is an urban sculpture. garden. The garden, conceived and built by Thomas Child starting in 1945, consists of 12 sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with text to gloat Mormon history. The sculptures were made with rocks weighing up to 62 tons which he found on the countryside and had them transported to his garden. This is an interesting place to walk through and ponder.
