Most of our time at Thanksgiving Point on this trip has been at the Ashton Gardens as the Gardens were the setting for both the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival and the Garden of Quilts Festival. There is, however, much more here than the Gardens.
Trish and I keep an annual membership so that we can enjoy all that is here whenever we are nearby.
There is the Butterfly Biosphere where hundreds of butterflies are hatched and released each day. It is easy to have one make an up-close visit if you are patient.
There is the huge Museum of Ancient Life where you meet beautiful dioramas populated by more dinosaurs and other early life forms than you can imagine seeing in one place.
Then there is the Museum of Natural Curiosity, with a wing for each age group, as well as popular discovery encounters for all ages. (While we were there there was a huge display of hands-on Rube Goldberg machines!)
The newest thing here is the brand-new and beautiful carousel which has marvelously artistic horses for everyone to choose from. The carousel is enclosed in glass so that it can be ridden all seasons of the year. Trish and I had to take this ride on two different days so we could try out different horses.
On this trip we did not even make it over to Farm Country where the multi-acre Cornbelly’s Corn Maze is just about to open along with other Halloween features.
No matter what is happening here, Thanksgiving Point is a place to spend time whenever you are just south of Salt Lake City. It is marvelous!
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