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The Utah Valley Bucket List

One hundred things, all of them real, none of them invented for the list.

Every item on this list links to a guide we already publish. Nothing was researched to pad it out to a round number, which is why there are fifteen festivals and no nightclubs — the list reflects what this valley actually offers rather than what a hundred-item list is supposed to contain. Tick things off as you do them. The ticks are stored in this browser and are never sent anywhere, so clearing your site data clears the list, and opening it on your phone starts you at zero unless you use the share link.

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How the list was chosen, and what it leaves out

The constraint was that we had to already cover it. If this site has no guide to a thing, that thing is not on the list, however obvious it might seem. That rule keeps the list honest in a way that a hundred plausible ideas would not: every line here ends in a page with parking, seasons, access notes and the caveats that matter, rather than in a dead end. It also means the balance is uneven on purpose. Utah Valley genuinely has more small-town summer festivals than it has anything else, so festivals take the largest share.

There are no prices, no opening hours and no dates anywhere on this list. A bucket list gets read years after it is written, and a ticket price from three seasons ago is worse than no number at all. Where timing matters — and for a lot of these it matters enormously, because the bloom window is two weeks or the road closes with the snow — the item says so in general terms and the linked guide carries the specifics. Check before you drive, particularly for anything up a canyon.

Your progress lives in this browser and nowhere else. There is no account, no sign-in and nothing transmitted. That is a deliberate trade: it means we cannot lose your data, and it also means a different device starts fresh. The share button solves that by packing your ticks into the link itself, so you can send your list to someone or open it on another device without either of us storing anything.

If you want a shorter version to start from, the hidden gems list is the twenty-five most locals-only entries, and 48 hours in Provo is the version for a visitor with a weekend. For picking one thing rather than a hundred, the Sunday activity generator and the kid activity picker do that job.

Items are re-checked when their source guides are updated. If something here has closed or moved, tell us and we will pull it.