Free events and places to volunteer, picked for people who'd rather go than scroll. No ads, nobody pays to be listed, and the back page goes on your fridge.
Issue 1 mails Nov 9 if enough people order by Oct 27. If it doesn't print, you get a full refund by Oct 30.
From the Issue 1 draft. Listings change before print.
Salt Lake Monthly is a printed newspaper of free, in-person things to do and places to volunteer around Salt Lake County. Issue 1 is 8 tabloid pages of full-color newsprint, mailed to your door. Each issue lays out the weeks ahead day by day, plus a few bigger free things within about an hour's drive. Readers pay for it, so there are no ads and nobody pays to be in it.
The point is to get you off your phone. Sending it to your phone would defeat that. A paper sits on the counter, the calendar goes on the fridge, and nothing buzzes.
Social media is free because you're the product. Advertisers pay for your attention, and the feed is built to hold on to it. Here you pay $10 and you're the customer. That's the whole model: no ads, and nobody paying for a spot.
Yes, you probably got here from an ad. Paying Instagram and Google to find readers is fine with me. Selling space in the paper isn't.
$10 a month
Issue 1, covering Nov 14 through Dec 31, then a new issue every month. Mailed to you, postage included.
Issue 1 mails Mon Nov 9.
Renews automatically: $10 today for Issue 1, then $10 on the 1st of each month from Dec 1, 2026, until you cancel. No minimum. I'll email you at least 7 days before any price change. Cancel anytime in your account or by emailing saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com. Issue 1 is a presale. It prints only if enough people order by Oct 27, then mails Nov 9. If it doesn't print, you're refunded in full by Oct 30 and charged nothing more.
$12.50, once
One printed copy of Issue 1, covering Nov 14 through Dec 31. Postage included. No subscription.
Mails Mon Nov 9.
One printed copy, $12.50, postage included. No subscription and no renewal. Issue 1 is a presale. It prints only if enough people order by Oct 27, then mails Nov 9. If it doesn't print, you're refunded in full by Oct 30. Questions: saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com
US addresses only. Questions before you buy? saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com
I'm Cale. I live in Murray, and I put this paper together myself, around a full-time job. I started it because I wanted to give people a reason to get out of the house, off their screens, and into a room with people they might not usually meet. And if you Google free events in Salt Lake, you don't get much that's any good.
If Issue 1 prints, it goes in the mail Mon Nov 9 by USPS First-Class Mail, which the Postal Service says takes 1 to 5 days. It covers events from Sat Nov 14 through Dec 31. Subscribers get a new issue every month after that, mailed before the month it covers.
Any US address. The paper covers Salt Lake County, but you can have it sent anywhere in the US, say to a friend who's moving here. I can't ship outside the US yet.
Sign in to your account on this site with your email and a 6-digit code (no password), open Subscriptions, and click Cancel subscription. It takes effect right away. Or email saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com and I'll cancel it within one business day and confirm by email. You won't be charged again. An issue you already paid for still gets mailed to you.
Order by Tue Oct 27 and you get Issue 1. After that, this page will say which issue you'll get and when it mails, so you know before you pay.
Yes. Buy Issue 1 and put their name and address in the shipping section at checkout. If you want a note with it, email saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com with your order number and what you want it to say. Gift subscriptions aren't set up yet, because a subscription keeps billing the card that bought it.
Not yet. Every copy goes by mail for now. If I set up at a market, I'll email subscribers where and when.
Issue 1 prints only if enough people order by Tue Oct 27. If not, everyone who paid gets a full refund to their card by Fri Oct 30, every subscription is canceled, and nobody is charged again. You don't have to ask. And if you change your mind before Nov 9, email me and I'll refund you in full.
Everything listed is free, in person and open to the public, in Salt Lake County, plus a few bigger things within about an hour's drive. I go through city and library calendars, venue and nonprofit pages, flyers and tips from readers. Then I pick what's worth leaving the house for: things that put you in a room with other people. Nothing that's free in name only or really a sales pitch. Dates and details get checked against the host's own page before it prints.
Email saltlakemonthlypaper@gmail.com with the name, date, start time, address, a link to your own page about it, and one line on who it's for. It has to be free and open to the public. Listing is free. Sending it in doesn't guarantee a spot, and money can't buy one. For Issue 1, send it by Sun Oct 25.
No. There are no ads, and nobody can buy a listing, a better spot or a mention. If your business hosts something free and open to the public, send it in like anyone else.