Weekend Warrior: Austere Escapade

Weekend Warrior: Austere Escapade

A winning weekend in Wendover The border town of West Wendover, Nev., is a casual getaway where Utahns enjoy gambling, lax liquor laws and colossal buffets. From an outdoor-recreation perspective, the lands surrounding the gateway community of 5,000 or so souls are...
Your ‘Buck it’ List

Your ‘Buck it’ List

Daytripping through the wild horse country of Skull Valley. By Robert Hammer One Sunday morning in late June, three parched and weary men staggered eastward across a sage-covered valley some 40 miles south of the Great Salt Lake. What little water they had found the...
Taste of Autumn

Taste of Autumn

Savory meat pies are all the more delicious with wild game (and stout) Autumn is a pretty magical time in Utah. As the temperatures drop and the leaves change, the air itself seems to invigorate the senses. It’s my favorite time of year to go camping and fly fishing...
Wait until dark

Wait until dark

Stansbury Park star parties offer a glimpse into the final frontier When I arrive at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (also known as SPOC), near Tooele, Denise Larsen and Leslie Fowler, secretary-treasurer and vice-president of the Salt Lake Astronomical Society...
Peak Colors

Peak Colors

Exploring shades of autumn in the Stansbury Mountains By Levi Rogers They’re hard to see from the Salt Lake Valley, obscured as they are by the more immediate Oquirrh Mountains, but the Stansbury Mountains are a tucked-away little jewel of a mountain range an hour’s...