2018 Top 20 Places to Take Kids in and around Salt Lake City, UT

Discover the power of play at Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum! Located at the Gateway shopping center in downtown Salt Lake City, Discovery Gateway offers 60,000 square feet of interactive, hands-on fun. Visit the Museum to explore engaging workshops, programs, and exhibits that invite the whole family to create, learn, and play together!  

The wAIRhouse Trampoline Park is Salt Lake's premier family fun center for ages 2-82 with 2 HUGE Open Jump Courts, 2 Dodgeball Courts, 4 Slam-Dunk Basketball Lanes, and a Foam Pit. Grab a snack at our Vertical Café or let kids ages 1-6 play in our Kids' AIRena.

The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium showcases ecosystems from around the world. Come see sharks, otters, penguins, seahorses, sea jellies, snakes, caimans, piranhas, stingrays, and more! Plus visit an all-new gallery called Expedition: Asia, featuring clouded leopards, Asian small-clawed otters, giant Asian fish, birds, and more.

Lagoon offers fun for all ages! From thrilling rides and coasters, challenging carnival games and activities, live and exciting entertainment, and the Lagoon A Beach water park, to the beautiful campground and Historical Pioneer Village, Lagoon has something for the entire family.

Visit the animals of the African Savanna, the bears and pinnipeds at Rocky Shores, or the big cats of the Asian Highlands plus much more!  Classes, events, camps, and daily programs occur all summer long!  Visit hoglezoo.org for details.

For more than 50 years, Clark Planetarium has been Salt Lake’s go-to destination for visitors of all ages who want to discover and learn about space and science. We engage audiences inside our walls and across the State of Utah in the creative process that is science through educational outreach, hands-on exhibits, on-site programming and our IMAX and dome theatres. 

Cherry Hill features a pirate ship, a Cardiac Canyon River Run, a lazy river, water slides with fog and lighting effects, 2 swimming pools, mini golf, batting cages, a ball crawl, climbing wall, camping, and outdoor pavilions for parties.

Treehouse Children’s Museum in Ogden invites children and their grownups to “Step into a Story”® through unique, interactive exhibits and playscapes and engaging programs with a focus on family literacy skills, the arts, and stories from around the world. With 29,000 square feet of exhibits to explore, a beautiful theater space, and a creative Art Garden, Treehouse offers learning fun for the whole family. Known for its storybook events offered throughout the year, Treehouse Museum is also the home of the award-winning Treehouse Troupe who present a season of three original plays for families each year.

With more than 400 interactive experiences, you can choose a new adventure each time you visit the Museum of Natural Curiosity®. For more educational opportunities, visit the Exploratorium exhibit in the Innovation Gallery or take a class in one of the Dickson Academy classrooms. The options are endless for all curious minds at the Museum of Natural Curiosity.

To provide innovative, professional family theatre and theatre education that involves and elevates our community.

Wheeler Historic Farm is a Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation facility, open to the public 365 days a year. A restoration of the turn-of-the-century dairy farm of Henry J. Wheeler, the farm includes demonstrations and exhibits. As an interactive working farm. Visitors can milk cows, view farm animals, and learn about the buildings and machines that made this 19th-century farm successful.

Cornbelly's offers corn mazes, haunted corn mazes, and Halloween/farm fun (scarecrow scavenger hunt, a cow train, slides, a zipline, a pumpkin patch, corn cannons, pig races, a jumping pillow, a princess playground, a Jack-o-Lantern tree, etc.).