GPS City GuideSalt Lake CityTemple Square

Stop 1 of 36 · Salt Lake City audio walking tour

Temple Square

Downtown Salt Lake City · 1999 · Opening of TRAX's First Segment

What you'll hear here: about 90 seconds of narration about Temple Square, and how it fits Downtown Salt Lake City, written to be listened to on the spot rather than read at home.

Notice the island platform beneath your feet, set in the median of South Temple Street. The Blue Line links the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake City with Draper; the Green Line runs from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City via Downtown Salt Lake City. The station sits at 150 West South Temple, with an island platform set in the median of the street.

You can feel how central this place is: immediately north of the Salt Palace Convention Center and Abravanel Hall, just southwest of Temple Square, and just northwest of the new City Creek Center development. Opened on December 4, 1999, this stop was part of the first operating segment of the TRAX system. It was closed during the 2002 Winter Olympics because it fell within the Olympic Square.

The Utah Transit Authority operates the station, and it sits inside the Free Fare Zone in Downtown Salt Lake City, where transportation patrons who both enter and exit bus or TRAX service within the Zone can ride at no charge. Picture the trains gliding past the Salt Palace, Abravanel Hall, Temple Square, and City Creek Center, all just steps from where you wait.

Where it is

Coordinates
40.7694, -111.89577
Area
Downtown Salt Lake City
Era
1999 · Opening of TRAX's First Segment
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Three stops free. No account needed. The audio plays itself as you walk.