Utah Humanities

Hear some fascinating stories told inside of a C-130 aircraft on this episode of Access Utah.

All of us – people, fish, and many other creatures – depend on Utah’s rivers. Utahns rely on a system of dams and diversions to give us water, but the…

Beginning in 1912, thousands of adventure-seekers hiked up the back of Mt. Timpanogos each summer to ski down a small permanent snowfield called the “Timp…

Echo Park sits at the confluence of the Green and Yampa Rivers, nestled under the sandstone cliffs of Dinosaur National Monument. In 1953, the US Bureau…

In September 1909, Julius Stone, a financier from Ohio, hired Utah adventurer Nathaniel Galloway to take him on a boat trip down the Green and Colorado…

In the 1900s, before the luxuries of rural electricity and indoor plumbing, washing clothes was a physical and time-intensive chore for many Utahns.…

Water in Utah is a precious resource, and many have stretched the law to control it. In 1879, a group of farmers at the mouth of Daniels Canyon diverted…

In the arid West, water is a force for both division and connection. The deep canyons of the Green River have barred human travel for thousands of years.…

Utah has little regular rainfall, so irrigation canals and ditches are the key to channeling water to farms. When Mormon settlers built irrigation systems…

Cool, clear, water. This is more than the refrain from Marty Robbins’ classic western song. It was an absolute requirement for steam locomotive engines…