SLC Open Streets

Thank you for all who made SLC Open Streets a success! This program has ended, but we hope to bring it back in the future. We hope you'll continue to explore the world around you through free Citizen Science initiatives.

Salt Lake City Open Streets Logo

Salt Lake City’s Open Street event transforms downtown main street into a lively, pedestrian-friendly hub, fostering community connections and strengthening partnerships with local businesses and organizations. 

In 2025, the event is looking beyond the concrete and glass of the downtown environment to something a little unexpected – nature. NHMU is partnering with Open Streets to explore the wild nature in and around SLC. 

Salt Lake City Open Streets:

  • Where: SLC Open Streets is located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City between South Temple and 400 South along all of Main Street.
  • When: Every Friday & Saturday in June from 2:00 PM - 2:00 AM

 

How to connect with NHMU during SLC Open Streets:

  • Photograph Nature Downtown
    • Add your photos of wild urban nature to iNaturalist to help scientists learn more about local species diversity.
  • Explore Nature on Main Topics with NHMU Online:
image of a raccoon on a roof next to a window

What's a synanthrope?

Learn about wild organisms that have adapted to live alongside humans.

cover of the book Wild Wasatch Front

Wild Wasatch Front

Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Salt Lake City!

person swinging on a tire swing in a garden

Where to find Nature?

You can find nature as far away as a national park or as close as the sidewalk.

A team of researchers gather around a tree by a roadway.

Trees Clean Pollution, but location matters

Child examines flowers with magnifying glass.

Be a Neighborhood Naturalist

Guests explore the Climate of Hope exhibit

A Climate of Hope

Learn from the exhibition, free with admission to NHMU.