PARK CITY — For a third year in a row, Deer Valley Resort has been named the No 1. ski resort in North America by SKI Magazine, a leading magazine devoted to the sport of Skiing.

Readers of SKI magazine voted Deer Valley tops overall out of 60 ski resorts. The Park City resort also won individual categories for grooming, mountain service, dining and lodging.

This week, the Dew Tour rolls into Salt Lake City, for its fourth stop of its five stop season-long tour. The action begins Thursday, September 17 at the Energy Solutions Arena. The Dew Tour comes to Salt Lake City for the third consecutive year for the Toyota Challenge.

Hogle Zoo has another new arrival this summer— a 120-pound, 6-foot-2 male giraffe was born at Hogle Zoo this past Thursday.

The first-time parents are Kipenzi, 6-year-old female, and Riley, a 6-year-old male.

The Days of 47 Rodeo is changing its’ venue from the Delta Center to the E-Center, just 10 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, and it promises to be better than ever in its’ new home in West Valley.

Summer is wildflower season in Utah, and, according to the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation, there are 1,200 species of wildflowers on the Wasatch Front.

To celebrate the color explosion, the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation is holding the annual Wasatch Wildflower Festival, July 17-20, in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons.

Celebrating its ninth year in 2009, The Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival will take place at Washington Square in beautiful downtown Salt Lake City. The Festival begins at 5:00pm on Friday July 10th and 4:00pm on Saturday and Sunday.

With a large spread of fruit forming a “cake” and the letters “49″ spelled out in grapes, Dari celebrated her birthday at Hogle Zoo this morning as the oldest African elephant in any North American Zoo. Dari came to Hogle zoo back in 1967, straight from Africa, so she’s been at the zoo for some 42 years

The Utah Arts Festival will open it[s gates for its 33nd time next week. What started out as the Salt Lake Festival of the Arts for three days in June of 1976 featuring 55 visual artists, 43 performing arts groups and 8 food artists on a three block section of Main Street has blossomed into a 4 day event, featuring 130+ visual artists, 100+ performing arts groups, 18+ culinary artists and drawing 80,000 patrons each June at Library and Washington Squares.

The Movies Under the Stars has been rescheduled to start this Wednesday June 17th at 7:30 p.m. So make sure to save June 17th in your calendar for tons of free fun and outdoor movies at the Utah State Capitol South front lawn!

Sunsets over the Great Salt Lake, warm dry evenings, the smell of freshly cut grass, and the gentle glow of the silver screen. The Utah State Capitol is thrilled to announce their outdoor film series:

Located in Salt Lake City, Raging Waters is a 17-acre waterpark with water slides and a half-million gallon wave pool. Raging Waters has an exciting water roller coaster called Waimea Wave – H2O Rollercoaster. There are also speed slides like Blue Thunder where you ascend hills in a double tube or White Lightning twin body slides.

In the late 1800’s a number of resorts sprang up along the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Saltair was one, and another was the original Lagoon, named Lake Park. It was “one of the most attractive watering places in the West,” having opened on July 15, 1886. It featured an open-air dancing pavilion with delicately-carved lattice-work and archways.

And now the cultural traditions of Utah’s first people are now being shared at This Is the Place Heritage Park. At the Native American Village are re-creations of traditional dwellings used by Navajo and Shoshone Indians so visitors can see how those tribes lived prior to the arrival of Utah’s pioneers.