The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Utah
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated June 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 180 roadside attractions in Utah.
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1. Muffler-Chested Man Sign
Salt Lake City, UT
Flat cutout sign of a muffler-chested repairman atop a marquee for an automotive business.
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2. The Centurium: Bronzes of History's Worthy
Cedar City, UT
Your chance to pose with statues of Shakespeare, Leonard da Vinci, Marie Curie, and a couple of medieval knights in one monument.
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3. Old Sorrel, Hero Horse Monument
Cedar City, UT
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4. Last Splice In First Transcontinental Phone Line
Wendover, UT
A telephone pole monument at a rest stop commemorates the spot where the final splice occurred linking the East and West coasts via telephone line. It happened on June 27, 1914.
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5. License Plate Pole
Washington, UT
Kimball Gardner has covered an 81-foot-high pole in his yard with license plates from all 50 states.
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6. Prehistoric Museum - Home of Al
Price, UT
Both Al the Allosaurus and Utahraptor -- Utah's most famous dinosaurs -- are on display inside the museum.
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7. Honeycomb Rocks
Washington County, UT
A swiss cheese alien world of holes and alcoves naturally formed in volcanic tuff.
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8. Front Lawn Junk Art
Enterprise, UT
Everything has a nice patina of rust in this yard collection of modified vehicles and junk creatures.
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9. Shoe Trees
Park City, UT
Several trees decorated with shoes, hanging by their laces, tossed by who knows.
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10. Big Rock Candy Mountain
Marysvale, UT
At the base of the yummy, yellow-and-chocolaty hued mountain you can buy rock candy and copies of the song.
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11. Bonneville Salt Flats
Wendover, UT
Race your car if you like. Or just count the I-90 "Drowsy Driver" warning signs, and spot the twisty tracks that veer from the freeway into the salt from cars that ignored them.
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12. 100+ year-old Fruitcake and Bacon
Hurricane, UT
The well-preserved dessert celebrated its centennial in 2007, and the bacon became a senior citizen in 2010. On display at the downtown Hurricane Museum - Visitor Information Center.
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13. Birthplace of Philo Farnsworth, Father of TV
Beaver, UT
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14. Beer Mug Muffler Man
Saint George, UT
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15. Pony Express Sculpture
Salt Lake City, UT
Celebrates a time when "Going Postal" meant taking a long ride on horseback. For all its landmark glorification, the Pony Express only lasted as a service for 18 months.
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16. Warner Valley Dinosaur Tracks
Washington County, UT
Over 400 different dinosaur tracks are at the end of several miles of dirt road.
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17. Moab Museum of Film and Western Heritage
Moab, UT
Exhibit of movie memorabilia, costumes, and posters from Moab's many appearances in Hollywood movies. The Thelma/Louise cliff stunt dummy is a winner.
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18. Echo Canyon Tribute
Salt Lake City, UT
A battered wagon, an ox statue, and a floridly-worded sign pay tribute to the pioneers who plodded through here in the 1840s.
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19. Roller Mills Where Kevin "Footloose" Bacon Danced
Lehi, UT
Lehi's photogenic Roller Mills were immortalized in 1984 as Ren McCormack's (Kevin Bacon's) workplace and the site of the dance in Footloose.
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20. Gravity Hill
Salt Lake City, UT
Your car rolls uphill near a "warping" grave that glows blue at midnight!
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21. Sugar House Monument
Salt Lake City, UT
50-foot-high granite obelisk and bronze statues mark the spot where Brigham Young commanded his followers to make sugar from beets. It was a colossal failure, but you'd never know it from the monument.
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22. Once Upon a Time in America Museum
Kanab, UT
This relatively new attraction is a mixed bag of taxidermy animals, old cars, a fake Wild West town, and rock 'n' roll memorabilia, including an autographed photo of Chubby Checker dancing with a giant Oreo cookie.
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23. Goblin Valley - Galaxy Quest Planet
Green River, UT
Knobby formations, naturally carved in desert rock, are sprinkled around Goblin Valley State Park, home of the cannibal babies and the rock monster in Galaxy Quest.
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24. Coal Miners Memorial
Price, UT
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25. Dinosaur Garden Statues
Vernal, UT
Fairly straightforward modern dinos, useful for comparison against Vernal's other, more whimsical (or obsolete) dinosaur sculptures.
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