Your Guide to Salt Lake in May 2024

What’s not to love about May? We’ve got May flowers, music festivals, and memes. Here’s how to make the most of it in Salt Lake.

☀️ Concerts/Festivals

Rock n’ roll, it’s concert and festival season in Salt Lake! We’ve got a handy dandy guide for how to navigate some of our biggest venues, but here are a few of the gatherings to look forward to:

• Kilby Block Party - May 10
• Queer Food Feastival - May 10
• Living Traditions - May 17-19
• Girl in Red - May 23
• Busker Festival - May 24-25

🗓️ Find more May events on our website.

🌸 Flowers

Seasonal depression be damned, the flowers are blooming and I feel alive again. All I want to do is stop and smell them. While wildflowers peak between June-August, you can still spot many varieties in May, like Mountain Bluebell & Elephant’s Head (btw, great name for a band).

A Few Tips

• Leave no trace; stay on the trails and don’t trample through the flowers.
• Prepare yourself; it’s likely a lot of trails will be wet and muddy.
• Be respectful; don’t pick the flowers.
• Stay safe; watch out for rattlesnakes.

For More of a Flower Guarantee

Visit the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point (through May 18) or Red Butte Garden. They each have over half a million blooms.

💐 Wanna upgrade your grocery store bouquet? Try these local florists:

• Little Gay Garden
• Ritual in Bloom
• The Petal Coop
• Native Flower Company

🐶 Rent-a-Dog

When the weather warms up, it makes me want to get a dog real bad. Salt Lake City households have more dogs than children after all. Did you know you can rent a dog for a day? It helps pups get socialized and can be a great option if you’re testing the dog parent waters. Nuzzles & Co in Park City has field trips during the day or overnight sleepovers.

🎧 If you have children of the human variety: Listen to our City Cast Salt Lake guide to May for last-minute summer camp recs and kid-friendly festivals.