Temple Square Visitor Count Soars

The annual number of visitors to Temple Square in Salt Lake City has been on a strong upward trend for the past five years, and the trend shows no sign of changing.

Each of the first ten months of 1990, for example, showed an increase in the number of visitors when compared with the corresponding month in 1989.

In 1986, some 2,599,441 people visited Temple Square during the year. In 1989, the figure was 4,345,879—an increase of 1,746,438, or 67 percent. In 1990, the number of visitors recorded for the first ten months of the year was running almost 9 percent ahead of the 1989 figures.

The growth in the number of visitors to Temple Square has corresponded with growth in tourism in Utah during the past few years. But Temple Square has more visitors annually than any one of the national parks in Utah, and also more than Yellowstone National Park, to the north in Wyoming and Montana.