Puck drop! NHL hockey arrives in Utah
Ice hockey fans can now follow their favourite teams to Utah with the National Hockey League’s arrival in Salt Lake City. The Arizona Coyotes have moved north and become the Utah Hockey Club, scheduled to play their first 2024-25 season game at home on 8 October 2024. Home to the Greatest Snow on Earth®, Utah has a strong winter sport history as the successful host of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Salt Lake City is in the running to host the games in 2034, with the official announcement to be made on 24 July 2024. Also coming for the winter 2024-25 season is the soft opening of the expansion of Deer Valley, becoming the third largest ski resort in the U.S., and a multi-million dollar expansion at Soldier Hollow (home to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games Nordic events) will support the Heber Valley facility to become the U.S. Biathlon headquarters.
What’s on the “Horizon” after Yellowstone
As Utah celebrates 100 Years of Film in 2024, Oscar and Emmy winner Kevin Costner has released the first installment of his filmed in Utah, multi-chapter western, Horizon: An American Saga. After the phenomenal success of the drama series Yellowstone – with scenes filmed across the American West, including Utah – Salt Lake City’s Transportation Network has launched two new Yellowstone production tours (summer and winter). The guided day tours take set-jetting visitors to some of the iconic filming locations along Northern Utah’s Wasatch Mountain range, providing exclusive access to sites not available to the general public. The experience includes a two-hour horseback riding tour in summer and a two-hour snowmobile tour in winter.
Aloha Utah! Fly Hawaiian from Sydney and Auckland to Salt Lake City
Hawaiian Airlines has officially arrived in Utah, bringing the spirit of Aloha to Salt Lake City and opening exciting new travel possibilities for passengers from Australia & New Zealand.
Hawaiʻi’s hometown carrier now offers daily flights from Honolulu to SLC. Better still, Hawaiian’s five flights a week from Sydney and three flights weekly from Auckland* to Honolulu now have same day connections at Honolulu to Salt Lake City, opening a great new route to Utah’s capital. Travel straight there via Honolulu or combine a visit to Utah with a stopover in Hawaiʻi en route!.
Hawaiian Airlines flight HA452 from SYD departs at 9.40pm on Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sun, arriving into HNL at 11.25am. HA446 from AKL departs at 11.30pm on Tues, Thurs, and Sat, arriving into HNL at 9.15am. Hawaiian’s flight HA84 to SLC departs HNL at 6:50 pm and arrives into SLC at 5:15 am the following day. The return flight, HA83, departs SLC at 7.00am with a 9:55 am arrival into HNL.
* Hawaiian Airlines service from Auckland to Honolulu recommences from 16 November, 2024
