"Hi, I'm Bryant Heath. If you live in Salt Lake City, I've run by your house!" While this line has had mixed success as an icebreaker, it's true. In 2020, amid pandemic lockdowns, earthquakes and murder hornets, I ran every single street in this city.
The project took me through nooks and crannies of each neighborhood—from the highest elevations of the East Bench to the westernmost points of Glendale. I came to notice, enjoy and appreciate all of the quirky things that make our city great.
But I didn't stop there. My interest in urban exploration developed into a full-fledged obsession as I continued to trek the streets of the neighboring cities of Millcreek, Holladay, South Salt Lake and—currently in progress—West Valley City. In fact, you can see everywhere I've been on the etch-a-sketch-looking map above. Curiosity has taken me a long way (3,403 streets and over 2,150 miles and counting) and there is still way more to our "Small Lake City" than you can even imagine.
Every week in this new column, I'll share highlights from my runs—things you might be surprised to learn are in our city and things you've passed by thousands of times but may have never really seen. I'm looking forward to sharing some of the peculiar, off-beat and unusual sights from around Salt Lake that I've come across.
I imagine City Weekly readers will occasionally recognize the subjects of some of the photos featured here, but equally so, I am willing to bet that you'll be surprised by what could be just a block or two away.
Together, we'll discover that Salt Lake is full of wonderful sights if we can only stop—or run slowly past—to take a look.
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FLASHBACK 2022: Bryant Heath offers Thanksgiving praise for the streets of Salt Lake City.
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