Park City Mountain Trail Map - Click to view larger version.
Park city ski resort is moving along quite well with their $50 million of improvements for the upcoming 2015/2016 ski season. Shown above you can see the new trail map that shows the two combined resorts. Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort have now been combined to become Park City Mountain. The new resort will now be the largest ski resort in the country.
The most significant of all the changes and upgrades being completed this summer is the installation of the new Quicksilver gondola. This new gondola is the integral link that will connect both resorts into one giant resort. In the photo below you can see the location of the base of the popular Silverlode chairlift at Park City
Wow! we just had another storm roll through and picked up a lot of the lake effect snow. Here in town in Prospector area we had about 5 inches of snow and the PCMR mountain has reported about a foot of snow. This time of year, the Cottonwood Canyons will get considerably more snow than the Park City resorts, so knowing this well, I did the drive over to Brighton. Quite a great day, they had about 18 inches of snow. Some of the steeper slopes you would hit the crusty bottom occasionally, but on the more mellow slopes you could enjoy the bottomless floating sensation.
Brighton Ski Resort, April 15, 2015
The big news is Snowbird is reporting about 30 inches for the day, and had nearly 4ft of snow for the storm total! You can see their "Monster Dump"
Vail Resorts announces the most impactful capital plan in the history of U.S. ski industry with more than $50 million of improvements are planned for next season!
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Vail Resorts plans to link two of North America’s greatest ski areas – creating the largest resort in the United States with 7,300 acres of skiable terrain. The plan outlines more than $50 million worth of resort improvements in 2015 that include. Already, the EPIC pass allows skiers to choose which mountain to ski for the day, PCMR or Canyons. Soon the resorts will be connected.
The Interconnect Gondola
An eight-passenger, high-speed gondola running from the base of the existing Silver Lift at Park City to the Flatiron Lift at Canyons. When
We have received our first real snow storms and just in time as the ski resorts are planning to be open soon. The storms that came through the last few days are now out of the state and we are enjoying sunny blue skies and cold air. The cold temperatures will allow the resorts to blow snow around the clock in preparation for the upcoming opening days. We may see storms return by next weekend.
Below are the anticipated opening dates for the ski resorts. However, weather could affect these dates, but so far we are on track to meet these dates. Click on any of the ski resort names to visit their websites for more information such as ski reports, lift status, ticket prices, season passes, equipment rentals, etc.
The Park City Area Lodging Association recently met with Blaise Carrig, President, Vail Corporation Mountain Division. As you'll see from the highlights below, the future for Park City is positive and we are quite optimistic for what is to come. The purchase of PCMR by Vail has been huge news in the ski industry and even more so for the local's who call Park City home. For investors looking for rental property, vacation homes or just a second home to spend more time, the town of Park City has never been more appealing than now.
Vail Corporation (NYSE symbol MTN) has three divisions:
Division 1, the Mountain Division is their most profitable.
This operates 11 ski resorts in the US: Vail, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, and Keystone (Colorado),
Park City is now part of the Epic family! This means you can now ski or ride Park City and Canyons this season, as well as other iconic resorts including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, and Heavenly, Northstar, and Kirkwood in Lake Tahoe on one season pass!
For unlimited, unrestricted access to both Park City and Canyons, plus the best of Colorado and Lake Tahoe, check out the Epic Pass. The Epic Pass pays for itself in just over 5 days. Plus, with the addition of Park City, the Epic Pass now provides access to 22 resorts and more than 32,000 acres of the world’s best skiing and riding, all for only $749.
Want more pass options for skiing or riding Park City this season? If
Jupiter Bowl powder skiing at Park City Mountain Resort
Every year SKI Magazine releases their ski resort Annual Rankings. SKI Magazine ranks the resorts using reader feedback based on a variety of categories such as terrain variety, slope grooming, dining, etc. All three Park City ski resorts ranked quite well again, but did slip a few spots from the previous year. Most of the other northern Utah ski resorts can also be found in the list below. We would highly expect to see big changes in the rankings, possibly not for next year, but for sure the year after as we see the merging of Park City Ski Resort and Canyons Resort, both now operated by Vail Resorts. Lots of big changes to come!
The rankings are a great way to help you decide where
It's Official. Vail has bought Park City Ski Resort from Powder Corp.
Its been a turbulent couple of years with the height of uncertainty and litigation reaching boiling points very recently. Last week we all held our breath as the courts decided it would take a $17.5 million bond posted by Powder Corp. to remain on the disputed resort property and stay open for the upcoming 2014/2015 ski season. Vail had asked for roughly $123 million and Powder Corp asked for the bond to be between $1 and $6 million. Early this week we received news that Powder Corp has decide to post the bond, which meant Park City Mountain Resort would in fact be open this year, and would need to again post another $19 million bond if they decided to also be open for the next
According to a Summit County enforcement hearing on Thursday at the Sheldon Richins Building with TCFC Finance Co., LLC, completion of the golf course is expected by September 30. This has been a very long awaited event, with much doubt of its actual completion for the past decade. Summit County Deputy Attorney Jami Brackin reviewed the benchmarks TCFC has had to meet since May 2013, looking forward to those goals which are to be completed by September of this year.
Many of the required construction benchmarks up to the present have been completed, with the exception of progress on a new ski maintenance building. A recent dis-approval of the buildings new location may stall that portion of the development and construction, yet the goal is to still
For many of us in Park City, we have dreamed of the opportunity to ski and snowboard from Deer Valley to Park City to the Canyons. It would be amazing to have one ski pass to access all three of our resorts. Even if not connected, just the ability to have one shared pass and the choice of going to each of the resorts on any given day would be wonderful. We all have friends who each year make a choice of which single resort they will buy their season pass too. Often, we miss skiing with good friends because we have our pass at one resort, while they are at another. With the price of lift tickets, its rare to go buy a ticket at a ski resort for a day, when you already have a season pass at another.
