Garden of Perception

This was one woman's idea. Genevieve Folsom, longtime garden editor for the Salt Lake Tribune, dreamed up the Perception Garden as the first of Memory Grove's Bicentennial projects—a planted space meant to be moved through and noticed, not just looked at. Bureaucratic and design snags dragged it out, and it wasn't truly finished until the early 1980s. It's a quieter counterpoint to the grove's war memorials: not a monument to the dead, but a small argument that a public park should also feed the living.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.5 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.5 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.9 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.2 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Utah World War I Pagoda Memorial — steps away
• Memorial Grove Park Dedication — steps away
• Pearl Harbor Memorial — steps away
• Korean War Wall of Honor — steps away