Like the famous Loch Ness in Scotland, Utah's Bear Lake keeps a monster-sized secret in its watery depths. Located at the top of Logan Canyon on the Idaho border, Bear Lake has been at the center of "monster sighting" stories since at least 1868.
Every summer, thousands of people flee to the cool waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah's northeast corner. But few of them would know about the little town of Linwood buried beneath the water's surface.
In the summer months, tourists descend on Utah's five national parks, in large part to effective advertising. Learn about the creatively-advertised grand opening of Zion National Park in 1920.
A story of the fundraising efforts to help the victims of one of the deadliest mining disasters in American history, the 1900 explosion at Utah's Winter Quarters Mine.
Paleontologist Earl Douglass searched for dinosaur fossils throughout Utah's remote Uinta Basin during what has been called the "Dinosaur Rush" of the late 1800s.
In 2011 Utah state lawmakers voted to designate the Browning M1911 pistol as the official state firearm. The gun would be the latest addition to a surprising collection of historic state symbols.
As the national debate rages over the federal budget and controversial bailouts, it's worth remembering the impact of federal spending in Utah during the Great Depression.
