Thanksgiving Point
CulturalThanksgiving Point is a 155-acre nonprofit cultural complex in Lehi founded in 1995 by WordPerfect co-founder Alan Ashton and his wife Karen, spanning seven discovery venues: the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life (60 complete dinosaur skeletons), the Museum of Natural Curiosity (an interactive children's museum with more than 400 hands-on exhibits), the Ashton Gardens (50 acres of formal gardens hosting the annual Tulip Festival), the Butterfly Biosphere, Curiosity Farms, Mountain America Jurassic Jungle, and The Carousel. The complex draws more than two million visitors annually and employs roughly 800 people.
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Lehi Roller Mills
HistoricalLehi Roller Mills, built in 1905-06 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, produced its first sack of flour in April 1906 and was the filming location for the warehouse dance scenes in the 1984 film Footloose. Now trading as Lehi Mills, it supplies flour and baking mixes to bakeries, restaurants, and retailers and runs a store at 833 East Main Street, making it a tourism and small-business destination on Main Street.
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Ashton Gardens
NaturalAshton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point is a 50-acre formal-garden complex organized into 17 themed spaces, featuring what Thanksgiving Point calls the largest manmade waterfall in America and the annual Tulip Festival each spring (a six-week event displaying more than one million blooms, 400,000 of them tulips alongside more than 550,000 other spring flowers, and the largest spring flower festival in Utah). The gardens host weddings, corporate events, and Silicon Slopes off-site programming year-round.
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Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life
CulturalThe Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point houses 60 complete dinosaur skeletons and more than 50 hands-on exhibits including the Erosion Table and the Quarry Dig, and describes its collection as one of the world's largest displays of mounted dinosaurs. The museum operates as a school field-trip destination and a year-round family attraction within the broader Thanksgiving Point complex, contributing to the more than two million annual visitors the campus draws.
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