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Hidden Utah: Including Salt Lake City, Park City, Moab, Arches, Zion, and Bryce Canyon

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Hidden Utah adds to an inviting series, surveying less traveled hidden spots in Utah and providing keys to scenic drives, lesser-covered parks, Indian reservations and fossil quarries, and plenty of outdoors activities. Any considering a visit to Utah will find Hidden Utah packed with ideas from culinary adventures to hiking.

The book is fine as a background information, but we found it insufficient and a bit scattered in its attempt to cover so many places. It completely lacked to mention any price ranges on hotels (luckily we had the AAA travel book with us), and failed to put pertinent information about a specific location in an organized and easy to find way.

From walking tours and resorts to indian reservations and dinosaur quarries, Hidden Utah is an invaluable, "user friendly" guide to all beauty, diversity, and recreational resources that Utah has to offer.

The author, Kurt Repanshek, provides the reader with an informative and entertaining description of Utah State. After the introductory Chapter 1, "Utah Wandering", where an overview of the history, environment, and information about travelling and lodging as well as sports and leisure are given, seven other chapters follow and focus on the different areas constituting the territory (see below for the table of contents). In each chapter a preliminary description precedes details and peculiarities characterizing each area, and maps. Where relevant, the author "interferes" in the flow of the text by adding some comments, recommendations and/or curiosities which are delimited by a grey background and introduced by a bold-type title. Special marks called "hidden" are placed at different points of the book and signal "...that you have come upon a place off the beaten tourist track, a spot that will carry you a step closer to the local people and natural environment of Utah". The guide offers the reader a different way of retrieving information about a place by including a wide range of topics which will fulfil any visitor's interests and by gradually uncovering paths which are usually discarded in other guides and in some way "hidden" to tourists.

Table of Contents

Introductory Notes
1. Utah Wandering
2. Salt Lake Valley
3. Northern Utah
4. Northeastern Utah
5. Central Utah
6. Southwestern Utah
7. Southeastern Utah
Index
Lodging Index
Dining Index