Utah
Utah is the 45th state admitted to the United States. Located in the West, it is bordered by Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.
Official State Items
- Animal: Rocky Mountain Elk
- Bird: California Seagull
- Cooking Pot: Dutch Oven
- Emblem: Beehive
- Fish: Bonneville Cutthroat Trout
- Flower: Sego Lily
- Folk Dance: Square Dance
- Fossil: Allosaurus
- Fruit: Cherry
- Gem: Topaz
- Grass: Indian Rice Grass
- Insect: Honey Bee
- Mineral: Copper
- Rock: Coal
- Song: Utah, This Is The Place
- Hymn: Utah We Love Thee
- Star: Dubhe
- Tree: Blue Spruce
- Vegetable: Spanish Sweet Onion
- Historic Vegetable: Sugar Beet
National Parks and Sites of Interest
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Timpanogos Cave
Arches National Park
Dinosaur National Monument
Bryce Canyon National Park
Eccles Museum
Natural Bridges National Monument
Canyonlands National Park
Temple Square
Rainbow Bridge National Monument
Capitol Reef National Park
Cedar Breaks National Monument
Zion National Park
This is the Place Monument
Colleges and Universities
Utah Dinosaurs (Eccles Dinosaur Park)
Utah Raptor
Ornithician
Saurischian
Allosaurus
Apatosaurus
Barosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Camarasaurus
Camptosaurus
Ceratosaurus
Diplodocus,
Dystrophaeus
Stegosaurus
Marshosaurus
Ankylosaur
Stokesosaurus
Torvosaurus
Acrocanthosaurus
Animantarx
Deinonychus
Eolambia
Gastonia
Iguanodon
Nedcolbertia
Pleurocoelus
Sauropelta
Tenontosaurus
Torosaurus
Tyrannosaurus
Parasaurolophus
Struthiomimus
Troodon
The LDS In Utah
Following the Mormon Succession Crisis of the followers of the assassinated Joseph Smith Jr., Brigham Young led the first of 70,000 pioneers across the desert from Carthage, Illinois. Today, approximately 62% of Utah residents are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.