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Poplar Grove, Salt Lake City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Poplar Grove is a western neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, the second largest, north of Glendale and south of Rose Park.
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Where to stay in Poplar Grove
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Rooms cluster downtown by the Church History Museum, not on Poplar Grove's own streets. The neighborhood reads residential from edge to edge, so most visitors book east toward the Church History Museum and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, then drive back west. Glendale sits immediately south.
Rose Park and Fair Park hold the northern side, and choosing between them and Poplar Grove is a choice between similar west-side streets rather than between two different kinds of stay.
About Poplar Grove
What are the main landmarks in Poplar Grove?
The listed set reaches well past Poplar Grove's own blocks. Downtown carries the museum pieces: the Church History Museum, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and the Seagull Monument, each of them a short drive east of the neighborhood. Named houses fill out the rest.
The Nelson Wheeler Whipple House, the Albert H. Kelly House, the John B. Kelly House and the Thomas and Mary Hepworth House are all listed, with the Japanese Church of Christ and the First Methodist Episcopal Church holding their own corners of Salt Lake City.
What is the history of Poplar Grove?
Poplar Grove is often confused with Glendale. The two west-side neighborhoods run into one another, Poplar Grove to the north and Glendale to the south, and the name of one still gets used for the other. Houses and meetinghouses run the list.
The Nelson Wheeler Whipple House, the Thomas and Mary Hepworth House and the Harold B. and Fern Lee House stand on the city's landmark list alongside the Twenty-Ninth Ward LDS Meetinghouse.
Where is Poplar Grove?
Poplar Grove sits on the west side of Salt Lake City, north of Glendale and south of both Rose Park and Fair Park.
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Updated September 2026