St George's oldest residents aren't retirees from Idaho, but Jurassic-era dinosaurs. Entry gets you an interpretive tour of the huge collection of tracks, beginning with a video. The casts were first unearthed by a farm plow in 2000 and rare paleontology discoveries, such as dinosaur swim tracks, continue to be made.
Dinosaur Discovery Site
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The town square has a small fountain that kids can run through and a few other water features to cool off.
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The 1877 Mormon Temple, Utah’s first, has a visitor center offering free tours.
2. Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum
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Two floors packed full of pioneer artifacts, furniture, photographs, quilts, guns and so on.
3. St George Children's Museum
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The town square has a small fountain that kids can run through and a few other water features to cool off.
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A tour of the Mormon leader's seasonal home and headquarters, now a historic building and museum, illuminates a lot about early town and experimental…
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For an evocative picture of the Mormon pioneer experience, head 5 miles north of town to Santa Clara and the 1863 Jacob Hamblin Home, where orchards still…
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Red and white swirls of sandstone flow like lava, and actual lava lies broken like sheets of smashed marble in this small, accessible park. Snow Canyon is…
13.97 MILES
In the ghost town of Silver Reef, the restored 1878 Wells Fargo building houses a museum and art gallery. Diagrams of the rough-and-tumble town and silver…