Cedar City, Utah

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Cedar City is a city in Iron County, Utah, United States. The population was 28,857 at the 2010 census.

It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, the Neil Simon Theatre Festival, and other events. The old folks call it "Color Country", the young folks call it 2 and 1/2 hours from Vegas.

Cedar City offers lots of hiking, mountain biking, and rock climbing opportunities. Highlights include: The Whizz and Brad's Food Hut. Lowlights include: rodeo grounds razed to make room for super Wal-Mart.

Located here is the Southwest Wildlife Foundation: www.gowildlife.org/
Local events, places, and areas of interest can be found at: www.in-the-desert.com/

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_City
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Coordinates:   37°41'2"N   113°6'19"W

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  • Cedar City also holds theatrical acting festivals, the most famous being the Utah Shakespearean Festival each summer. http://www.bard.org/index.html Correction above about rodeo grounds: "raised", past-tense "to rise". "razed" is the term for something demolished. I'll assumed the rodeo grounds were demolished, or "razed" for the Super WalMart.
  • There's also new rodeo grounds and many new summer festivals. They've taken the name "The Festival City" and they're looking to have something going on every week.
  • Over the years I have repeatedly visited many places in Utah, and one aspect that I find interesting is that the people of Cedar City, being in the middle of an agricultural area [and hundreds of miles away from the Provo-SLC metro area], are fairly sophisticated, well-spoken, and socially friendly with outsiders. Now, pardon me for sounding like a snob . . . Whereas there's one particular community, near Provo, Utah, that is a downright "hick town" where the locals seem to lack sensibilities, can be crude, and unfriendly to outsiders.
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