Playgrounds and things to do with kids in Salt Lake City
Clark Planetarium
Three floors of free space exhibits, plus shows in a domed theater.
Discovery Gateway Children's Museum
Hands-on museum built for kids under 10, with a fossil dig pit, a kid-sized helicopter and water and construction zones.
Hogle Zoo
Polar bears and sea lions seen underwater at Rocky Shores, a replica steam train around the savanna and a carousel.
Natural History Museum of Utah
A wall of real dinosaur bones and hundreds of fossils, in a museum set into the foothills.
Tracy Aviary
An eight-acre bird park inside a city park, small enough for a toddler to see all of it.