Apartments for Rent in Salt Lake City, UT (2,296 Rentals)

In 1847, Brigham Young and other founders of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, settled in the valley and established the city. They invested heavily in irrigation and cultivated the valley to create a home where they could worship without persecution. As they cultivated the land, Young and his followers began to build the city, starting with the Salt Lake Temple on a block that would later be named Temple Square. These earlier pioneers organized a new state, Deseret, and petitioned for statehood in 1893. However, Congress declined the petition and established the Utah Territory instead. Prior to the Mormon settlement, the valley was home to itinerant Native American tribes including the Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute, who traveled through following hunting and good weather. SLC is home to Promontory Summit, where the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, which brought many immigrant groups to the city. In 2002, SLC hosted the winter Olympics.