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Places worth the detour in Utah

Detourmap lists 179 places in Utah, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Great Salt Lake. 156 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature121 Archaeological58
Places
179
Oldest
Denis Julien Inscription 1836
Little known
156 of 179
Share of United States
4%

Utah 179

The 120 best known of 179. The other 59 are on the map and on the United States pages.

Elsewhere in United States

California463 Alaska334 Washington258 Wyoming198 Oregon187 Colorado154 Arizona144 New York137 Florida107 Texas106 North Carolina104 Hawaii86

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Utah?

Great Salt Lake. Salt lake in Utah, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Utah?

179: 121 nature & landscapes and 58 archaeological & historic sites. 156 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Utah?

Denis Julien Inscription, dated to 1836. 56 of the 179 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Utah here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Utah if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Utah is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.