What’s up with the gondola?   If you’re a Salt Lake local or just visiting, you've likely heard about the controversy surrounding “the gondola” in Little Cottonwood Canyon. But what is...

Every year, during Thanksgiving season, millions of families in America gather around the dinner table for one reason: to eat their body weight’s worth of delicious food. Feasts featuring classics like...

The Salt Lake Valley is teeming with various wildlife, from coyotes and foxes to moose and mountain lions. Despite this diversity, the University of Utah only has one lab dedicated to studying these animals:...

When driving down I-215, heading towards Little Cottonwood Canyon to flail on something presumably moderate, I am always drawn towards this pile of rock right before the entrance of Parley’s Canyon....

By mid-March, spring has arrived on Antelope Island, the large State Park and oasis in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. This island is home to bison, pronghorn antelopes, coyotes, and plenty of birds....

The brutal fragility of the ecosystem. A wilderness of life and death, continuing in a state of homeostasis through these exact cycles, over and over again. A world of self-regulation, where the existence...

Utah is host to one of the most beautiful natural environments in the world, as well as top-notch recreation opportunities: the Wasatch mountains, the southern deserts, and our five natural parks give...

First the rain comes down. Lightly at first, and then as the sky opens up, a full deluge. The sandy earth, reaching a point of saturation that it can no longer contain, starts to sweat out excess water....

I want to write about cool stuff: climbing, hiking, and enjoying the pleasantries of the outdoors. But when I see headlines like, “As of February 2024, a developer plans to build a business park on the...