15 Reasons Why Small Town Utah Is Actually The Best Place To Grow Up
Most of Utah’s residents live along the Wasatch Front – very few are fortunate to grow up in small towns with close-knit communities, clean air and quiet, peaceful surroundings. While our bigger cities certainly have many advantages, growing up in one of Utah’s small towns might actually be the best. Here are 15 reasons why.
In the Salt Lake and Utah valleys, kids have to stay in for recess during the worst inversion days. If you live in a small town (especially in Southern Utah), you get to breathe fresh, clean air year-round.
Utah’s small-town parades and festivals are awesome! The whole town shows up, and as a kid, you often get to be center-stage.
In small Utah towns, kids make friends before kindergarten and stay together all the way through high school. Even if you leave for a bigger city, the friends you make in your small town are for keeps.
Who needs a zoo when you see wildlife every day?
Kids in big cities don’t get to see the stars at night. You can lie on your back and stargaze almost every day of the year.
It’s scary enough learning how to drive...kids in Salt Lake have to learn how to navigate the I-80 interchange and the spaghetti bowl while dealing with road rage drivers. In small towns, kids have less traffic to deal with.
Many small towns in Utah are a LONG way from shopping malls, children’s museums and other entertainment venues. Kids learn to entertain themselves, which is a valuable skill to have for life.
When the view from your backyard looks like this, how can you complain? Not a single strip mall in sight!
Your town has homes on the historic register, barns built by pioneers and some great stories about the good old days.
You might move away for college, or even forever...but you can always come back to your hometown. Folks will remember your name, welcome you back and tell you all the latest gossip.
Utah’s crime rate is low overall, but it’s even lower in our small towns. Kids there have more freedom to run and play without worry.
Whether you’re the merit scholar at the local high school, or the rodeo star at calf roping, your whole town is proud when you succeed.
Small town folks work hard, and teach their kids a strong work ethic early.
You can ride your ATV, go-cart or pony pretty much anywhere in town.
You grow up proud to be an American, and a Utahn.
Kids who are lucky enough to grow up in small-town Utah have it made. Did you grow up in one of Utah’s small towns?
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