Murray is a city in Utah, on the Wasatch Front in the heart of Salt Lake Valley. Murray City Park is a large urban park popular for organized sports and its wooded areas. Murray City Arboretum, with trees and plants from all over the world, is part of the park. Desert Star Theater is a dinner theater with a long and colorful history, starting as Gem, a small theater that showed silent movies.
Desert Star Playhouse
Desert Star Playhouse is a dinner theater in Murray, Utah with a long and colorful history. It started out as Gem, a small theater that showed silent movies accompanied by a piano. It was eventually closed down and demolished, but later rebuilt and expanded and named the Iris Theater. The Iris was considered state-of-the-art for its time. It used to show both blockbusters and more obscure movies and some Thursday nights were reserved for Swedish films, shown for Swedish immigrants living in Murray. The theater had a stage where various local groups could show theatrical productions. Murray firemen sometimes held conventions there. Iris Theater, Apartments and Commercial Building was built in 1930 and is the only commercial building in Murray built in the Art Deco style. The theater became Desert Star when Mike and Alyce Todd purchased it and renamed it the Desert Star Playhouse. After meticulous renovation, the playhouse today features Dinner and Cabaret theaters, and performing two shows in different theaters. Desert Star is known for parody plays, with comedic spoofs of classic movies and stories.
4861 State St, Murray, UT 84107
Murray City Arboretum
Located within the Murray Park in Murray, Utah, Murray City Arboretum is a living laboratory of trees and plants from all over the world where new species and varieties of trees are tested for their adaptability to Murray's climate and soil. It is also a rich resource for homeowners and landscape designers and architects, who can use tested plants to diversify the species of the Murray home gardens and urban forest. But, more than anything, the arboretum is an extraordinarily beautiful space to spend some time and enjoy lush greenery and richness of plant diversity. The arboretum is uniquely beautiful and interesting in all seasons. It includes species gardens such as a cacti garden, water ponds, hybrid iris bed, shrubbery beds, seasonal flower beds and varieties of trees with unusual foliage or flowers.
5051 Treetop Cir, Murray, UT 84107, Phone: 801-264-2614
Sur La Table
Located in Fashion Place shopping center in Murray, Utah, Sur La Table is a culinary paradise with more than 12,500 items all aiming at making cooking more efficient, more fun and more attractive. You can find everything for your kitchen or restaurant, from essentials to hard-to-find specialty tools. There are all sorts of Springerle molds, timeless copper cookware, table linens of all colors and textures, egg cups, whisks, mixers, blenders and spatulas, bakers' necessities such as pastry tips and brushes, giant paella pans, graters, zesters and mashers, knives large, small and in-between, tea sets for your favorite granny or for a teddy bear picnic. Sur La Table occasionally offers cooking classes, so check their facebook page.
6117 State St B139, Murray, UT 84107, Phone: 801-281-6642
Immersive Gamebox
If you are new to the concept of the Immersive Gamebox , this is what you can expect when you book your experience. Basically, you and your team (up to 6 players) enter the game room and don your visors, which are equipped with sensors. Game images are projected onto the walls of the game box and all your movements are tracked by sensors, firmly placing you in the heart of the action. The experience is totally immersive and some of the games are not suitable for younger players. Adults and teens would probably have most fun playing the Squid or Ghostbusters games while younger children can enjoy playing Paw Patrol, Angry Birds and Shaun the Sheep.
Immersive Gamebox, 6191 S. State Street, Unit 8, Murray, UT 84107, 801 871 5387
