This Is The Place Heritage Park — Attraction in Salt Lake City

Maybe a good place to visit on a tour or something. Not a great wedding venue.

My sister was married at one of the old historical buildings here yesterday. Firstly, the good - they have digital signs on the way in that they will put the name of the wedding on with directions. This is a nice touch. The location isn't bad, it's kind of an old-school setting, which some people will be into. The staff was very friendly. But beyond that I can't recommend this place much.

Here's some reasons why. Let's start with the accommodations of the building - there aren't many. There's a kitchen and couple bathrooms, but they're limited compared to most other venues. There's no drinking fountains, and overall the building we were in was pretty small and cramped. Many venues also have audio systems ready to go. This place had a single speaker with a wired microphone, but that was it. They didn't have Bluetooth audio or even so much as an aux chord to connect devices to the speaker. Thankfully we happened to have everything we needed and were able to make it work.

Parking wasn't the worst I've seen but wasn't great, and it's definitely a bit of a walk, so if you have older family members make sure they're aware that they'll be taking a hike to get from the parking to the building.

Probably the thing that made our entire party the most frustrated was the regular tours that come through. There's a loud diesel vehicle designed to look like a train that passes through VERY regularly, like every 15 minutes, complete with literal bells & whistles, and an announcer telling the passengers about their surroundings. So you can imagine what it was like when during the ceremony not once, but twice, this loud fake train came down the road outside the building, with the announcer on full blast. Then again probably 5 more times while we were trying to get photos. If you're only doing a reception here in the evening you won't have a problem, but any activity such as a ceremony during the day will be interrupted, and often.

Beyond that all the other things were small - not a great selection of outlets for plugging in equipment or lights, tons of wasps everywhere, etc.

So I guess my summary would be that there are FAR better venues out there and would advise that you seek elsewhere if possible. If for some reason this particular place holds some sort of historical or sentimental value that you can't miss out on, plan on only doing a reception here in the evening,...

The zoo is across the street, but don't be tempted to do both this park and the zoo in one day.

The village is probably larger than you might expect. You could spend all day here, so make sure you bring a water bottle. (You can refill them at drinking fountains.) The heat (especially combined with elevation, if you're not from here) can be oppressive in the summer. Bring sunscreen/hats.

This is a fun place to bring your kids, and they have, in addition to their usual activities, special themed events in the fall and for Christmas.

I am a native-Utahn, a Church member with pioneer heritage, and we love coming here as a family. But there is a lot for non-church members as well.

The village has many authentic cabins, stores and other buildings that have been relocated there. The village is even used occasionally as a movie set.

Last year when we went, the park was operating on a skeleton crew and not all of the buildings in the village were open. This year that is no longer the case- everything is open. My kids love it!

Activities in the village include: blacksmith demonstrations, leather working, petting zoo and horseback rides (both for little kids and trail rides), handcart course, pioneer children’s memorial, cabin building experience, employee manned houses (authentic pioneer homes) that you can go inside, gift shops, a few restaurants and even a ZCMI store. (That stands for Zion’s Co-op Mercantile Institution. It started in the 19th century and turned into a 20th century department store chain here in Utah but was sold about 25 years ago and no longer exists.) I know I’m missing some of the other stuff you can do… there’s a “train” you can ride that takes you around the village, panning for gold (for kids), etc.

The artwork and statues (even one by sculptor DJ Bawden) are the best quality. The life-size statues of not only pioneers but animals and wagons are amazing. I love the placement of the statues at the pioneer children's memorial. It's very touching. (see photos.)

Every resident of Utah, (and tourists) regardless of religious beliefs, should know about This is The Place Heritage Park. It’s not owned by the Church (although the Church donates to it), it’s owned by the State of Utah; it’s not manned by missionaries, it’s staffed by paid employees. The employees are verrrry knowledgeable and helpful. It's very interesting to see how life was here, in the...

This Is The Place Heritage Park is a must-see Park if you're visiting Utah or in the Salt Lake Area, especially if you are interested in Pioneer history or in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints period there are many original buildings and some recreated buildings of important buildings that tell a story of the history of the Latter-Day Saints they have things such as Pioneer chapels log homes larger homes the first hospital that was run by the church in the Utah area as well as Brigham Young Academy building which is the first University or higher education in Utah.

they have historical buildings such as a tithing House A Relief Society house activities hall or a cultural Hall and they also have Historical homes, they have an absorbatory to track stars. They have many Craftsman shops like tin Smith shop of woodworking shop where you get to see things such as tools toys and other things made from wood.

Blacksmith shop period they have places to get food. One of the hotels does sell food. The other place is they have a building that sells MINI Donuts.

The workers or actors help you feel and learn what it was like in the early 1800s 1900s living in the Utah or out west you get to learn different skills that they would use another building they had was they have education or School building.

Just right outside the park. There are some monuments to important figures that might be less well known but are important such as some of the first African-American sayings who joined the church.

If you're going to visit Temple Square at also recommend visiting This Is The Place Heritage Park where bring him young said, this is the place where we will build.

It is a big Park, but they have a nice train that can carry you from place to place if you would like. They also have an area to learn about Native American history and see some buildings like teepees wigwams. They also do...