The stories of Salt Lake County, UT
160 narrated audio stories from across Salt Lake County — hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore from its towns, landmarks, and back roads.
Salt Lake City
When Channel 5 Brought Utah Into Television
How a familiar Salt Lake voice became Utah’s first TV habit.
Salt Lake City
Where Place Became a Moral Voice
Salt Lake City helped shape Terry Tempest Williams’s literary witness.
Murray High School
The School You Remember Isn’t Murray High
A hometown school, and the movie myth it didn’t earn.
Kilby Court
Where Salt Lake Learned to Crowd the Stage
A tiny all-ages room became a proving ground for Salt Lake music.
Salt Lake City
When Punk Put Salt Lake on the Marquee
How a local punk scene became a cult movie’s beating heart.
The Great Saltair
When the Lakefront Turned Up the Volume
How Saltair’s reinvention kept concerts on the Great Salt Lake shore.
Salt Lake City Main Library
Where Salt Lake City Learned to Gather Around Books
How the Main Library became a civic stage for ideas.
Salt Lake City
A Western Journal That Asked for More
How a University of Utah journal widened the West’s literary conversation.
Salt Lake City
Levi S. Peterson and Utah’s Literature of Belief
How Peterson brought Mormon struggle and Utah life into serious literature.
Salt Lake City
How Logan Stayed in May Swenson’s Poems
A Utah childhood helped shape one of America’s most inventive poets.
Ken Sanders Rare Books
Where Utah’s Printed Past Keeps Breathing
A rare-book shop that turns old paper into a living map of the West.
Judge Building
Where a Shooting Became a Ghost Story
A downtown landmark where violence hardened into folklore.
Salt Lake City
How a Campus Press Carried the West
A small campus press gave Utah and the West a national readership.
Union Pacific Depot
When a Depot Declared a City’s Importance
A grand station that told the West Salt Lake City mattered.
Capitol Theatre
Where Salt Lake City Learned to Listen
A downtown stage that survived change and became a musical home.
Salt Lake City
Fort Douglas and Connor’s Other War
A soldier used a fort, a newspaper, and mining to reshape Utah.
Salt Lake City
When Sundance Came Down the Mountain
How Salt Lake City became essential to Sundance’s Utah story.
Salt Lake City
When East High Became Everywhere
A Utah school became the face of a national pop phenomenon.
Assembly Hall
Dark Granite, Quiet Scale
A smaller Temple Square hall with a strikingly different face.
Kearns Mansion
From Silver Fortune to Governor’s Home
A mansion where mining wealth became public power, then survived fire to endure.
Fort Douglas
Where Fort Douglas Learned to Haunt the Hill
How a military post became one of Salt Lake City's favorite ghost stories.
Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City
A Bank Tower Learns Hotel Manners
How an old bank tower kept its place by changing its purpose.
Salt Lake City
Where Snow and Status Made Reality TV Strange
How Salt Lake City’s culture became the engine of a Bravo franchise.
Lion House
The Stone Lion and the Big House It Guarded
A stone lion introduces a remarkably ambitious frontier home.
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