The Krishna Temple, and the 363 days nobody writes about.

Yes, every day of the year. Public hours are 10am to 8pm and walk in tours run from 10am to 7pm, taking about ten to fifteen minutes each. Groups of six or more are asked to arrange a time in advance rather than turning up together. There is nothing to pay to enter the grounds or the building. The address is 311 West 8500 South on the south bench, and some directories list 8628 South State Road instead, which will get you to roughly the right hill but not to the right entrance.

10am to 8pm daily for the temple and the gift shop. Tours stop earlier, at 7pm, and the vegetarian buffet runs from 11am to 6pm, so the four things on the site keep three different closing times between them. Festival days run to entirely different hours: the spring festival in 2026 ran ten until five on the Saturday and eleven until four on the Sunday. Confirm current hours at utahkrishnas.org, which is where the temple sets them.

Yes, along with cows, peacocks, parrots and koi, and the llamas are run as a bookable programme rather than kept as scenery. The published activities are an orientation, an obstacle course, rides for children under sixty pounds, grooming and walks, at about two dollars a person with a twenty dollar minimum, and llamas can be hired out for hikes and events. The llama number is (801) 919-9933, separate from general enquiries. There is also a July festival built around them with a small admission charge.

Yes. A vegetarian buffet runs on site every day from 11am to 6pm at a suggested donation of ten dollars for adults and five for children, which is a donation rather than a fixed price. The gift shop alongside it keeps the temple's own hours of 10am to 8pm and sells imported clothing, books, incense and statuary. Between the tour, the animals, the buffet and the shop this is a two hour stop rather than the fifteen minute photograph most people plan for.

In spring, and the 2026 edition was the 30th annual, running 28 and 29 March from ten until five on the Saturday and eleven until four on the Sunday. It drew an estimated 20,000 people, tickets were ten dollars at the gate and children of twelve and under went free. It is billed by its organisers as the largest color festival in North America. The 2027 dates and prices were unpublished at the time of writing, so check the temple's own event page rather than a listing site.

In two on site car parks plus overflow ground, and access is managed rather than open, which is the practical answer for a hilltop property receiving an estimated 20,000 people over a weekend. No shuttle arrangement for 2027 was published at the time of writing, so do not plan around one. On any ordinary day the parking is straightforward and there is no arrangement to make. The temple's own event page is where the current instructions are posted.

Seven a year in total. Alongside the spring Holi festival there is Llama Fest in July, Krishna Janmashtami in August, a Festival of India in September and Diwali in October, plus a weekly public event, the Krishna Love Feast, held at this temple on Sunday evenings at five. One thing worth getting right: the Saturday evening version of that weekly event belongs to the Salt Lake City temple rather than this one. The 2026 Diwali and Festival of India dates were not posted at verification.

The building was completed in 2001, in the Rajasthani style and modelled on Indian temple design, on a hilltop property of roughly fifteen acres at the south end of the city. The acreage figure comes from local reporting rather than from a survey document, so treat it as approximate. What is not approximate is the effect: the ground is high and open, the valley falls away below it, and the building is visible against the sky from a long way north of it.

Twenty minutes if you have come for the building, and around two hours if you use the site properly. The tour is short, about ten to fifteen minutes, and it is the part with the earliest cut off at seven in the evening. The animals, the buffet from eleven until six and the shop are what fill the rest. The order that works is tour, then animals, then food, then shop, because the closing times run in that sequence and reversing it means eating somewhere else.