8th Continent Soymilk Taste of Life Tour- Gilgal Garden

So I heard of this place tucked into a neighborhood with these amazing sculptures and statues and just had to go.

If you follow your GPS- you will here it say “You have arrived.” You look around, crane your neck, and just see a neighborhood. Around the corner is a school, but that can’t be it. You start walking down the sidewalk and all of a sudden on one of the fences aside a house you see a sign that indicates Gilgal Garden.

Walk inside the iron fence and you are greeted with benches, and flowers, and a sense of serenity but also a sense of confusion. While each sculpture has a story behind it, they are eerily realistic when depicting a person’s head on top of a cat’s body, or a stern man with all of his sculpting tools surrounding him like a temple of perseverance. I sat on a carved bench and started to read the hundreds of quotes and scriptures that were engraved in the stones. This place isn’t very large… but it will take hours for you to ingest everything it has to offer.

Definitely worth checking out! This is Lopez from 8th Continent Soymilk! Next stop: Fiesta Mexicana. Make sure to keep me company on my Taste of Life roadtrip and add me at facebook.com/8thlopez

Safe Travels!

Wikipedia’s Say:

The Gilgal Sculpture Garden is a small public city park, located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The park, which is filled with unusual symbolic statuary associated with Mormonism, notably to the Sphinx with Joseph Smith‘s head, was a labor of love designed and created by LDS businessman Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. (1888-1963) in his spare time. The park contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems and literary texts. Gilgal Sculpture Garden is the only designated “visionary art environment” in the state of Utah.