I had way too much fun running around to literally every part of Utah over the past 4 weeks putting this together. I got Robert Lund’s CD when I was probably 10 years old back in the 90’s and would listen to this song every day saying someday I’ll go get photos of everything mentioned and put a slideshow together.
Check out the result here: https://youtu.be/0hekBlsvDmA
There’s also this version with video instead of pictures: https://youtu.be/6QM-lUeM37s
I had someone say they wished I would follow up with this and explain where all of the places are since some are lesser known so I’ll post a list and a map here below. Some are obvious (the name of a town, etc.), some are general areas and some are just “things.”
- La Verkin
- Ophir
- Goshen
- Wendover
- Peoa
- Erda
- “…names I’ve never heard of…” I used Musentuchit in the San Rafael Swell.
- Aneth
- Widtsoe
- “…Utah’s Beautiful Town’s…” I used downtown Mt Pleasant
- “… have some names I can’t pronounce…” I used Mantua.
- “… to a pretty great state…” I used a Utah State Line sign up on the north boundary
- “…I’ll probably get some wrong…” I used Duchesne.
- “…but who cares it’s just a song…” just as space filler I showed the Tree of Utah.
- “…jump in your cars and come along” I used this Car Museum sign.
- “…on a tour through our state…” I used the State sign coming into Kanab from Arizona.
- Koosharem
- Washakie
- Toquerville
- Keetley
- Ioka
- Neola
- Osiris
- Paragonah
- Shivwits
- Ticaboo
- Fayette
- Gusher
- “… we’re going on a Utah tour…” I showed the State sign coming into Utah from Beaver Dam, AZ
- “…here in Utah we can offer more…” I used a spray painted “Welcome 2 Utah” sign on old highway 91.
- “…scenery and fun…” I used a “scenic view” sign for the Jacob’s Chair view area on highway 95.
- “…climb in and shut the door…” I used an open door at the Green River Test Site / Utah Launch Complex
- “…we’ll take our trucks…” I used an old truck at Lakeside Storage in Provo.
- Flux
- Panoramaland is a whole section of Utah but I used a road with that name in Hanksville.
- Color Country is a whole section of Utah but I used the motel with that name in Panguitch.
- Bridgerland is a large section of Utah but I used Bridgerland Technical College.
- Golden Spike.
- Canyonlands.
- Magna.
- Tailings Pile
- “…places you can go where mother nature puts on a show…” I used a bird I saw in St George.
- “…desert valleys…” I used an area near Beaver Dam Wash.
- “…mountain tops…” I used an area near Beaver Dam Wash.
- “…I-70…” Just a picture of the sign for I-70 west of Green River.
- Vermillion
- Lyman
- Sigurd
- Salina
- Ferron
- Elmo
- Ivins
- Lynndyl
- Cisco
- Chester
- Beaver
- Thistle
- Spry
- Heber
- “… we’re going on a Utah tour…” I used the state sign coming in from Montello, NV.
- “…scenery and fun…” I used the Rocket Display near Golden Spike.
- “…climb in and shut the door…” I used a car show at Liberty Park in Salt Lake.
- Chester
- Beaver
- Thistle
- Spry
- Heber
- Hoytsville
- Genola
- Virgin
- Tabiona
- Torrey
- Wyutah
- Vernon
- Fry
- Eureka
- Moab
- Juab
- Willard
- Kanab
- Granger
- Panguitch
- Mercur
- Enoch
- Bluff
- “…the roads are really rough…” I used a random dirt road I saw while driving down highway 261.
- Mona
- Manila
- Hurricane
- Tooele
- Knolls
- Delle
- Leeds
- “…there’s nothing there but weeds…” Looking west from Clawson, Utah.
- Vernal
- Upalco
- Ouray
- Provo
- Pigeon
- Levan
- “…I need to use the can…” I used a shot from Ophir, Utah.
- Elberta
- Ogden
- Parowan
- Logan
- Koosharem
- Washakie
- Toquerville
- Keigley (swapped this in instead of a second Keetley)
- Ioka
- Neola
- Osiris
- Paragonah
- Shivwits
- Ticaboo
- Fayette
- Gusher
- Vermillion
- Lyman
- Sigurd
- Salina