We are visiting Yellowstone for a week this summer, and saved significantly on flights by flying in a day early, and coming home a day late. However, we have to stay fairly close to SLC as we will be picking up and dropping off a relative at the SLC airport. We will have about noon on a Friday until noon on Saturday on the way out, and Sunday morning early until Monday morning on the way home.
We will be camping on the Yellowstone leg of the trip and are open to camping in the SLC area. We have two young kids (5 and 7) and are not at all religious. We might like to see big fancy Mormon buildings briefly, but we don't want to spend all day at it. On the way home it will be Sunday, will everything be closed because Jesus? We were thinking it might be nice to stay at a hotel with a pool on the way home since we may be exhausted.
We will have a rental car.
So what would you see or do? Any reccs on where to stay? Free/cheap preferred, we like hiking and pretty scenery, we won't have bikes with us, sadly.