Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City around Downtown Salt Lake City. Buildings and sites of Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah has many historic and notable sites within its immediate borders/ Although the entire Salt Lake City metropolitan area is often referred to as "Salt Lake City", this article is concerned only with the buildings and sites within the official city limits of Salt Lake City. Religious, particularly LDS buildings, are prominent in Salt Lake City. Settled by Brigham Young and 147 other pioneers on July 24, these Latter-day Saints were fleeing persecution after the death of Joseph Smith. Young originally intended the city and
Salt Lake County, Utah Lake City is the largest Catholic high school in Utah. The Catholic Church also operates Juan Diego High School in Draper. Salt Lake County also has several independent schools including: Because there are only four major entrances to the Salt Lake Valley (to the north, east, and west of Salt Lake City proper as well as far to the south at Point of the Mountain), routes for long distance travel through the valley are mainly confined to an east–west strip through Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake and a north–south strip near the Jordan River. These corridors cross in