Utah Life Magazine

Across Utah’s canyons and high country, spring begins with small signs – melting ice, warming stone and the first hints of green beneath snow. These poems linger in that in-between season, when winter holds on and the land slowly turns toward renewal.

Read the full selection in our March/April 2026 issue.

We’re now accepting poetry submissions:
"Golden Hours” for the September/October 2026 issue (deadline August 1)
"Small Wonders" for the November/December 2026 issue (deadline September 1)

Send poems to [email protected]

PC: Tom Till

Just 25 minutes from Salt Lake City, Little Cottonwood Canyon rises into granite towers, snowfields, wildflower meadows and alpine ridgelines. It supplies drinking water, shelters wildlife, draws skiers, climbers and cyclists, and holds decades of memory for those who know the Wasatch.

In “The Canyon We Inherit,” photographer Howie Garber joins writers, scientists, conservationists and community leaders in honoring the canyon at a moment when the proposed gondola has sharpened questions about access, growth and protection. Their work asks what it means to love a place – and what it takes to defend it before it changes.

Read the full story in the March/April 2026 issue of Utah Life.

PC: Howie Garber, James Zebrack

Becca Jordan steps out of a plane above Moab with redrock below, a purple wingsuit catching the air and a world record to her name. At 27, the Moab wingsuiting instructor has completed about 1,500 skydives – roughly 1,100 of them in a wingsuit – and helped take an all-female acrobatic wingsuit team to the 2025 FAI World Cup of Wingsuit Flying.

In competition, Jordan flies with teammate Elizabeth Brott and camera flyer George Hargis, performing grips and maneuvers at speeds near 200 mph. The speed, though, is not how Jordan describes the sport. "The fear diminishes and it becomes this place of comfort and focus," she said.

Read the full story in the March/April 2026 issue of Utah Life.

PC: Zachary Carroll, Bradley Don, Alex Swindle

By midmorning in Kamas, the donut case at Mirror Lake Station is often already empty. The Chevron station has been turning out homemade donuts for decades, with current owners Kristin and David Wade keeping the routine alive: early mornings, scratch-made dough and doors open at 5:45 a.m. for locals and travelers headed toward Mirror Lake Highway.

The station is best known for dinner-plate-sized fritters in apple, blueberry and raspberry, made from leftover donut dough and available only as long as the morning batch lasts. Even in health-conscious Park City, a pink box from Mirror Lake Station rarely lasts long in an office break room.

Read the full story in the March/April 2026 issue of Utah Life.

PC: Mirror Lake Station

On summer Friday nights in downtown Salt Lake, Eccles Square fills with mariachi music, samba fire dancers, slam poetry, jazz and silent discos.

Through “Fridays on Main,” The Blocks SLC is bringing free performances to sidewalks, theater steps and even parking garages across the downtown arts district.

Read the full story in the March/April 2026 issue of Utah Life.
PC: Kelli Freshman

Our March/April 2026 issue follows a 125-mile backcountry loop around Capitol Reef’s Waterpocket Fold, explores the fight to protect Little Cottonwood Canyon and profiles wingsuit pilot Becca Jordan, artist Cody Chamberlain and Salt Lake’s growing downtown arts scene.

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PC: Dan Leeth

John Moses Browning spent much of his childhood in his father Jonathan’s gun shop in Ogden, filing rust from salvaged gun parts, sorting through “Pappy’s” scrap pile and learning the trade beside him.

As a boy, Browning built crude fi****ms from discarded pieces and worked to earn the approval of his father, a respected gunsmith who pushed him to keep improving. That relationship would shape the work of the future inventor behind Browning & Bros. and some of the most influential fi****ms of his era.

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At Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Blanding, pottery, tools and textiles trace more than 700 years of life in the Four Corners. Inside the galleries and visible storage, visitors encounter one of the region’s largest on-display collections of Ancestral Puebloan artifacts.

Outside, a restored pueblo, open kiva and sun-aligned sculpture connect that history to the landscape, offering a closer look at how people lived, worked and adapted at the edge of desert and field.

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PC: Dan Leeth

In Utah, a simple text can go sideways fast, from messages sent to the wrong Emma to autocorrect turning “I hope she does soon” into something far more alarming.

In this Last Laugh column, digital misfires, family group texts and well-meaning mistakes stack up across the Beehive State, where even a Facebook post can become a permanent cry for help.

Read the full story in the November/December 2025 issue of Utah Life.

PC: Josh Talbot

From Montezuma Creek, Diné artist Gilmore Scott paints Bears Ears from the east, the view he grew up with, where two buttes and a flattened mesa form a distinct profile.

Drawing on patterns he watched his mother weave and what he learned reading shadows as a wildland firefighter, Scott builds acrylic and watercolor works that blend geometric “eye dazzlers” with atmospheric color tied to land and story.

Read the full story in the September/October issue of Utah Life.

PC: Gilmore Scott