How this works

What WasatchNext is

A guide to what is on across the Wasatch Front, plus a standing list of places that are worth going to whether or not anything is scheduled. You do not need an account to read any of it.

Where the listings come from

Cities publish calendars. So do county parks, libraries, theatres, museums, resorts and venues. They are spread across dozens of sites in half a dozen formats, and most people never see any of them. We read them on a schedule and put what is on into one list.

Every listing links back to the page it came from, and names the source. We are not trying to keep you here: if you are actually going, you should be reading the organiser’s own page. The source status page lists every source we read and whether it worked the last time we checked, so a city missing from the listings can be told apart from a city with nothing on.

What it does not claim

• Not complete. We only have what our sources publish. Something absent from this site is not evidence it is not happening.
• Not confirmed by us. We do not phone venues. A listing here says “this is what the organiser published”, not “this is definitely going ahead”. Calendars are frequently not updated when plans change.
• Paid placements say Sponsored. Businesses can pay to show their own events higher in a list or more prominently on the map, which can move other events down. Those events are always marked Sponsored, and nothing unmarked was paid for. Events a business posts itself are marked as theirs.
• Not tickets. We do not sell tickets. Booking happens on the organiser’s site.

Where we are honestly short

These are the current limits, not aspirations we have written in the past tense.

• Many events have no exact location yet. A venue name in prose is not a location a map can plot, and we would rather leave a pin off than invent one. So the map shows noticeably less than the list does. That is a collection gap, not a map bug, and the list is the fuller answer.
• Some listings are unconfirmed. Some sources publish a proper feed with real dates; others bury the date in a sentence, or omit it. Where we could not confirm a detail we mark the listing rather than guess. An uncertain listing you can check beats a confident one that is wrong.
• Prices are mostly unknown. Free is shown only where the source says so. The absence of a price on a card means we do not know it, not that entry is free.
• Most events have no photograph. Only a minority of sources publish an image we may reuse. The rest may get an AI-generated image commissioned by WasatchNext, labelled on the card and event page. These images suggest the activity; they do not show the actual event, venue or performers, even when they look like photographs. Where there is a real photograph it carries its credit: the photographer or rights holder when the publisher names one, and otherwise the site we found it on. We leave out photographs from a source whose terms we have read and found to forbid showing them, from listing aggregators and ticketing platforms rather than the event’s own publisher, and files that carry a stock library’s name.

AI-generated artwork

The credit “AI-generated image · WasatchNext” identifies artwork we commissioned, rather than a photograph supplied by the organiser. We keep the original image, its generation details and an image description so we can reuse suitable artwork for future listings. A generated image is an illustration of an activity, not evidence of what happened at an event.

Places, for the quiet weeks

Some weeks nothing much is scheduled, and a list of events is then exactly the wrong answer. The bike park is still there, the aquarium is still open. Places to go is the standing list of things that never appear on anybody’s calendar.

Check before you travel

Events get cancelled, postponed and moved between our checks, and not every organiser updates their own calendar when it happens. Use the source link on a listing to confirm the details before making the trip. An absence of a warning here does not mean an event is definitely going ahead.

If we have something wrong

Tell us and we will fix it. If you run events and we are listing them when you would rather we did not, say so and we will stop. If we are not listing them and we should be, point us at your calendar; a feed of any kind, iCal or RSS, is the most reliable thing you can give us. Get in touch.