Old Deseret Village - Salt Lake City, Utah

Address:2601 E. Sunnyside Ave
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tel: (801) 582-1847

This place needs no further introduction? For informative and interactive history, this is indeed the place! At the This is the Place Heritage Park's Old Deseret Village you can watch more than 200 costumed volunteers reenacting a 19th-century Mormon pioneer community amidst restored adobe houses, churches, schools, and shops. Artisans keep busy in their period workshops, bakers bake (and give you a taste), women churn butter, quilters quilt, and community members live their simple, daily lives as you walk or take a whimsical wagon ride around the community. Old Deseret Village is open from Memorial Day-Labor Day, Monday-Saturday. Also on the grounds is This is the Place Monument, dedicated to the 1847 moment at which Brigham Young and his crew stood atop Wasatch Mountain Range gazed out onto sprawling Salt Lake Valley. Intending to establish a Mormon Promised Land, Young declared: "This is the place."