Tourism Information-Visitor Center

Located directly across from the State Capital and has it’s own parking lot.
My husband and I decided to walk inside here right before visiting the State Capital. We were immediately greeted by an employee behind the cash register.
We picked up one what to do Salt Lake City map (there is a large amount of maps and other useful tourist literature available here for free) and just browsed briefly in this small place. This place does sell food items that are local to Salt Lake City, tourists items (including postcards) and other interesting knick knacks.
There are also restrooms available here as well in case you need to use them.
I would recommend stopping by here if you are visiting Salt Lake City for the first time. And you might as well get some photos with the 2 buffalo statues outside of this visitor center as well.

I found this place accidentally. On my first trip to SLC, I enjoyed a nice walk in downtown and wanted to go close to the Capitol. Once I reached the top of the hill where the Capitol was located, I saw the Visitor center. There was quite a lot of free magazines and brochures for the visitors. I got to chat with the person working there. She gave me some good suggestions about what to see after I explained her my tight schedule. This place seems under-​utilized by visitors. It definitely helped me so it could probably help you, too.