Comments on: #rushthetrip Day 16: Marriott Center Experience Uniquely Amazing

By: BHayes

BHayes — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:52:22 +0000

Thanks for the responses. When it comes to these road trips, I’ll certainly admit to rarely having enough time to fully appreciate every town I stop it. The nature of the beast is that I’m usually moving along to my next stop all too quickly, so consider these quick snapshots more than anything else.

That being said, I did find Provo (and all of the Greater Salt Lake Area) to be beautiful. In fact, I’m not sure there’s a prettier American city out there. I wish I’d emphasized that more in the post, but felt like I was beating a dead horse after noting the scenery on prior trips to Logan and Salt Lake City.

Mark — I hear you on all the things to do in the Provo area, and like I said — I rarely have the time to fully enjoy everything a town/city has to offer on these trips. Good, fun restaurants and bars are a part of my evaluation because they allow me, an outsider, the opportunity to mingle with locals. The equation definitely changes if you are a local and not a lonely soul wandering town to town :), but it’s the social opportunities that those types of establishments offer that aid in a town’s amenability to visitors, at least in my mind. And again, I may have been looking in the wrong places, but I found Provo to be a little lacking in this regard.

And Californian: Only my opinion! I noticed the Google Fiber presence downtown and thought that was very cool, and from talking to a few folks, it does seem like Provo is becoming more and more diverse. For me, Salt Lake City would be the place if I were going to move to the area, but again — just my take.

By: Californian

Californian — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:01:02 +0000

Thanks for telling people its not a place you would want to live or recommend living. There are too many here already and it isn’t helping that it is becoming the next Silicon Valley with all of the tech companies coming to the area. Unfortunately they don’t agree with you.

By: Mark Stoddard

Mark Stoddard — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:39:58 +0000

Provo is somewhat like most smaller towns (100,000) or less except there are few places to get alchohol. BUT, for an astute traveler there is plenty more to see and do than in towns even larger. 1- You missed a world-class art exhibition on the great paintings of 3 great artists from Denmark, and Germany. Never before shown outside of the churches that loaned them. 2- Next to the Marriott Center is an excellent natural history museum. Very well done. 3- Tour BYU campus courtesy of a private guide supplied by the University & a golf cart — it’s quite large. 4- One of the largest historical printing museums on Center street — Gutenberg press included. 5- You might have caught a hockey game at the indoor rink or gone ice skating on Utah Lake. 6- Provo is a staging area for more than 8 world-class ski resorts less than one hour away. 7- Thanksgiving Point (15 minutes away) has a top rate dinosaur exhibit and if you have kids, they have hours of fun in the interactive exhibits. 8- Provo’s new indoor swimming and water slide center is huge. 9- Riverwoods has a decent surfing center. Ride the waves. 10- Of course it has plenty of sedate activity places like 40 or so movie screens, malls, a couple of bowling alleys, etc.

That’s enough to keep anyone entertained unless sloshing in suds is the limit of one’s entertainment criteria.

By: Sidney Sperry

Sidney Sperry — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:12:13 +0000

I really enjoyed the article Provo is still living in 60s in many aspects.
I grew up a UCLA fan and the Merriott Center is an amazing venue,

When they drop the Sheets frome all 4 corners of the Score Board and project BYUs greatest moments in history in not only unique but it sets the stage in the atmosphere of things to come.

I disagree on one aspect if anyone ever wants to go skiing 20 minutes from BYUs campus is a ski resort called Sundance Robert Redford owns it and runs the Sundance film festival from it. The ski resort is the most beautiful in the State of Utah and is a must Ski.