Why So Few Americans Live In Most Of Utah

The "empty" part of Utah is amazing- some of the most beautiful land I've ever seen. But around Salt Lake City is (in my opinion) absolutely HORRIBLE- really not a fan

Having driven south to north through Utah recently, the 85 mph speed limit was a surprise. Also the irrigation techniques they are using are the same as when I grew up there. I could swear it's the same equipment.

Just visit Utah dont move here 😂

You did forget to mention that West of the great salt lake is a massive salt flat that is under heavy lithium mining, that has massive pumps from the lake. Even in the dire crisis a couple years back, they didn't slow that down a bit.🤔

Thanks for the in-depth video. Just a note, in Utah, Zion is pronounced like onion— 'z(eye) un' .

Funny story. My family is from a small town in Nevada not too far from the Utah border, as farmers they did business with lots of people from Utah and Idaho, actually my grandpa called the guy "The Potato King" and my grandfather got his own nickname from his friends and business associates. They called him "Ole Brig" because he had a Brigham Young beard.

Because it’s all dessert and barely any water, I’m not trynna die

Utah has 5 national parks in southern Utah.

Our Great Lake just got 40 years' worth of water in the last 2 years... All of our reservoirs are at 100% or more currently

Native Utah Boy. Genuinely impressed by the history. Honestly, better than most videos I have seen about us.

One fact not mentioned in this video is that much of Utah is owned by the federal government and people can't live in those areas. If most of the beautiful mountains surrounding the valleys where everyone lives were not federal land they would be overrun with people and the population of Utah would be higher, just like most of California. I'm not saying things should be different, in fact quite the opposite, but it is a major factor in why Utah is less populated for it's size.

The new state flag is ridiculous

The great salt Lake is currently near healthy levels!

Because it's a desert

I must say that is disingenuous and one sided popular contemporary history and not truthful to say that they stole the land…
when the Indians especially the Utes had been Rounding up women and children from several tries especially the paiute and goshute tribes and selling them into slavery in Spanish New Mexico settlements and Mexico silver mines.
Brigham Young promptly out lawed this trade.

Brigham Young’s goal was to coexist with the Indians and his policy voiced to all the Saints was “feed the Indians rather then fight them” and suffer some pillaging. My fifth great grandfather lived actually rescued an Indian girl who was going to be shot By her father because the mother had died and he adopted her and raised her. While Young’s policy did not always work and And the Blackhawk war commenced in Central Utah for a time. The Saints had strived collectively to have good faith relationship with the native Indians. Brigham Young called many men such as Jacob Hamlin to Learn their language and strive to have good relations.

It's "This is the place"

And that's just the way we want to keep it. Please don't Californicate beautiful Utah.

Because the Utah Jazz has not won a championship for 50 years 😂

I taught fourth grade Utah history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were strongly against slavery. Green Flake had a free life while living in Utah. Check your facts better.

don't say shrinking salt lake. we're so up right now

#1 reason that most of Utah is uninhabited: the U.S. Federal government took ownership of most of it way back in the 1800s. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Forest land, National Parks, National Monuments, wilderness areas, Military Bombing Practice Ranges, and Bio/Chemical weapons storage areas, etc. No one is allowed to buy any of that land or to live on it.

The Utah state government (State Parks) and the school land trust own large chunks too. Also Indian Tribal Reservations. And lakes, rivers, highways, roads...

Only 20% of Utah land can be privately owned, bought & sold.

Yep, the Feds stole about 63% of Utah’s land, more than any other state except Nevada (where they grabbed up 80.1% of the land).

Utah has six national parks not 5, at the Spike150 event (150 years since the completion of the transcontinental railroad.) in 2019 Golden Spike National Historic Monument became a national park

Most people read Zion wrong it ZI-IN the O is an I when it's said.

Zion. Is pronounced just like Lion. Zion. Lion. Thank you! :)

I'm from Tennessee but I live in Utah. It's beautiful here, but the people are different.

In St. George we are incredibly short on water. There’s been a battle between Utah and California to our portion of the virgin river and our city continues allowing large housing developments and golf courses to be built, further draining our resources.

In St. George we are incredibly short on water. There’s been a battle between Utah and California to our portion of the virgin river and our city continues allowing large housing developments and golf courses to be built, further draining our resources.

Father, daughter found dead at Canyonlands National Park after running out of water in 100-degree heat
Rangers say a father and his daughter died Friday after getting lost in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park and running out of water in triple-digit temperatures.

According to the National Park Service, the 52-year-old man and his 23-year-old daughter from Green Bay, Wisconsin, were hiking on the Syncline Trail when they got lost and ran out of water.
Rest in Peace Family

UTAH is one of the countless states to where only the SANE Californians are now moving.
Other popular destinations include Texas and Florida. When did golden California turn to rust? It began soon after Ronald Reagan was no longer governor ... and then it accelerated by leaps and bounds when that idiot Gavin Newsom became governor.

yep, so don't move to SLC.

Tired of being here, want to move away soon.

We should just charge caliifornia to pump sea water into the GSL Roughtly 25% of my home's insureance goes towards paying for their fires. Fair is fair. Also it might marginally help wiith rising sea levels erroding their state away.

Utah seems so beautiful!!

Please remember the name Zion is pronounced Zi-un with the emphasis on the first syllable. Not Zi-ON, but ZI-un. 😊

I can’t see myself living in any other place. Utah is just way too beautiful. Waking up and seeing mountains to the east and west is my favorite thing

Reason we all live in the valleys is because it’s to hot to live any further south, and there’s too much mountains to the north with the salt planes to the west.

People who live in Saint George are just plain crazy

It's Zi Uhn not Zi on

Please learn that the correct name of thé Church of Jesus Christ of later day saints is the correct name of the Church , not the Mormon church, or it can be shortened to Church of Jesus Christ

1. Pioneer settlements
2. There is not much water

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Yayyyy i’ve been asking for a video about my home state and it turns out you did already 4 months ago!! Thank you

It's annoying how many people are moving here and trying to make it into the dump they moved here from.

Over 80% of Utah is also owned by the govt so people can’t live there……

As a native of Utah, growing up in Saint George, I can say Utah is a very unique and very different state than others. This video is great! Thank you for sharing.

Mormon is not correct, it is Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or Latter Day Saints

I say we collectively stop watering the grass!

im from moab where you are a short drive from both arches and canyonlands it is a very beutiful area

After two of the best water years we have had in Utah in decades they are telling us it's three feet lower than it should be. After all the ridicules proposals for water conservation, pumping water from the ocean, and hand ringing, nature will determine the lake level not us. In this time of extreme drought, it pisses me off to hear the rich assholes in Saint George crying they need more water for golf courses. Ther are people living in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada who don't have indoor water, and they have the nerve to whine about golf courses.