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🚂 Emigration Canyon, Salt Lake City
3 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 3 Restaurants
✨ Diner, Family, Tourist
The historic canyon east of SLC where pioneers entered the valley. Hogle Zoo, This Is The Place park, and a famous canyon diner.
Known for: Hogle Zoo, This Is The Place Heritage Park, Pioneer Day history
Don't miss: Ruth's Diner, Hogle Zoo, This Is The Place Heritage Park
💡 Ruth's Diner has been serving canyon-side breakfast since 1930 — get the mile-high biscuits.
Top 3 in Emigration Canyon
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Ruth's Diner
American Diner · SLC institution since 1930
Utah's oldest restaurant, operating since 1930 in a trolley car in Emigration Canyon. Ruth's serves hearty American breakfast and brunch with canyon views. The biscuits and mile-hi...
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Hogle Zoo
Tourist Attraction
Salt Lake's 42-acre zoo at the mouth of Emigration Canyon with 800+ animals. The elephant encounter, great apes building, and the Lights Before Christmas holiday event are highligh...
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This Is The Place Heritage Park
Tourist Attraction
Living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon where Brigham Young declared 'This is the place' in 1847. Pioneer buildings, train rides, and Utah history exhibits. The mo...
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