Temple Square

Temple Square is a 35-acre campus in downtown Salt Lake City that brings together historic buildings, landscaped gardens and visitor centers around the Salt Lake Temple, and it is maintained by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Google lists the site as a historical landmark, museum, religious organization and tourist attraction, and that mix shows up across the grounds: formal gardens, seasonal plantings, and buildings that are open to walk through at your own pace. It functions as an anchor for the city’s downtown core and a starting point many visitors use before exploring the rest of Salt Lake City.

Because the layout spreads across multiple buildings and several acres of gardens, most visitors set aside at least an hour, longer if the plan includes both visitor centers and a full walk of the grounds. A simple route is to start at one visitor center, walk the garden paths at a relaxed pace, and finish at the other end of the square before heading back into downtown Salt Lake City.

The address is 50 North Temple, at the edge of downtown Salt Lake City, and the site offers a mix of parking options: a free on-site lot, free street parking nearby, and paid parking in a nearby garage and lot for anyone who prefers a guaranteed space. Because it sits within downtown, it is an easy add-on for visitors already walking between other downtown Salt Lake City attractions rather than a stop that requires driving in from outside the city.

Temple Square is tagged as good for kids and wheelchair accessible at the entrance, parking lot, restrooms and seating areas, which makes it a comfortable stop for families with small children, older visitors, and anyone who wants a slower-paced hour away from downtown Salt Lake City traffic. It also works well as a solo outing or a quiet stretch of a longer downtown day, since the gardens and walkways give visitors room to spread out even when the square is busy.

Parts of the campus are shaped by an active, multi-year renovation of the Salt Lake Temple, and the temple building itself is not open for public tours on a walk-in basis right now. Reservations for the temple open house tour are set to open on September 1, 2026, ahead of a celebration event planned to run from April 5 through October 1, 2027, which organizers describe as open to everyone. In the meantime, the visitor centers stay open with their own programming, and the wider campus continues to host seasonal events throughout the year, so it is worth checking the official site before a visit to confirm what is currently open to the public.