Salt Lake Living
Salt Lake City, host of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, is located at the base of the Wasatch Mountains in the Salt Lake Valley, which is the heart of the state of Utah.
Salt Lake City is frequently recognized as a great place to live and work. The Salt Lake City/Ogden area was ranked as the best place to live in North America in the sixth edition of Places Rated Almanac, and Salt Lake City was named one of the top 25 "Wired Cities" in America by Yahoo! Magazine. The Salt Lake/Ogden area was also ranked as the second best large city in which to locate a business by Entrepreneur magazine, and Fortune magazine ranked Salt Lake City third in its listing of best cities in America for business.
Utah was rated as the best fiscally-managed state in the nation by Financial World, and Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast and American Demographics magazine refer to Utah as "one of the top three economies in the nation". Newswatch has named Salt Lake City as the number one city with the best environment for business, and Adweek magazine reported that Salt Lake City is "poised to become a city of the future." Utah was also named the fourth most livable state by Morgan Quinto Press.
Salt Lake City is within a 40-minute drive to three Nordic ski areas, the nation's only recreational ski jumping complex, and seven world-class ski resorts, upon which University of Utah Residents from all specialties frequently take advantage of "Greatest Snow on Earth."
From Salt Lake City, there is easy access to world-renowned whitewater rafting on the Green, Colorado, and San Juan rivers, and according to the U.S.G.A., Salt Lake has some of the best maintained and most accessible golf courses in the country. Utah has more golf courses per capita than any other state in the nation, and Golf Digest has ranked Salt Lake City as a number one golf city for big cities in the country.
Bicycling is popular in the red rock country of southern Utah or in the alpine terrain in the northern part of the state, and rock climbing, horseback riding, and hiking or backpacking in wilderness areas and to mountain lakes is among the favorite activities of many University of Utah Residents.
Culture
Along with the many recreational attractions available from Salt Lake City, there are many cultural and sporting events. Rocky Mountain Raceway is just twenty minutes away from downtown Salt Lake. The Utah Arts Council, the country's oldest state arts agency, represents more than 400 nonprofit organizations for performing, visual, and literary arts in the state, which include the Utah Symphony, Ballet West, and Pioneer Theater Company. The Sundance Film Festival and the Park City Art Festival are nationally recognized events held in Park City, a nearby community.
Salt Lake City is home to professional sports teams such as the NBA's Utah Jazz, the IHL's Utah Grizzlies, the Salt Lake Bees baseball team, the Real Salt Lake soccer team. Collegiate sporting events are hosted in Salt Lake City throughout the year, and the community provides exceptional support for the University of Utah sports teams, with football and men's and women's basketball perhaps being the most popular.
The borders of Utah include seven national forests, five national parks, seven national monuments, two national recreation areas, and one national historic site. Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, and Zion National Park are within a few hours drive from the University Hospital, so with your schedule as a neurology resident it is easy to visit these parks during your training.