Salt Lake ranked as fifth most fun city in U.S.

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Who says it's impossible to have fun in Salt Lake City?

Certainly not WalletHub, a travel website, that ranked Utah's capital city as the fifth most fun city in the United States in a recent report.

Only Las Vegas, Orlando, Miami and New Orleans scored higher on the report, which can be viewed at https://wallethub.com/edu/most-fun-cities-in-the-us/23455/.

WalletHub compared the 150 largest cities across 51 key metrics ranging from number of fitness centers per capita to movie costs to average open hours of breweries.

Salt Lake ranked second in movie costs, third in average beer price, sixth in number of restaurants per capita, ninth in number of fitness centers per capita, 10th in number of dance clubs, 34th in number of festivals, 40th in access to bars and 55th in number of attractions.