 Ski Resorts
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Utah | _ | | _ | | | Whatever your ability, Alta is for you! Alta Ski Area provides the skiing; private businesses provide the rest, including lodging, dining, helicopter & backcountry tours, massages and church services.
Deep powder snow, rugged terrain and spectacular scenery are world renown charateristics of Alta. Its best kept secret is the great beginner and intermediate terrain. The wide variety of awesome terrain and snow conditions provide skiing opportunities for every level of skier.
Lodging options are limited in Alta, so we included options in both Snowbird, which is adjacent to Alta, and The Marriott Residence Inn which is at the mouth of both Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons and a 20 minute drive to Alta. | | | _ | | _ | | | Ogden City was an official Venue City for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. All qualifying and medal rounds for men's and women's curling were held at The Ice Sheet located on the campus of Weber State University.
Seventeen miles east of Ogden, Snowbasin Ski Resort hosted all of the alpine speed events including the men's and women's Downhill, Super G, and Combined competitions, as well as the speed and technical alpine events for the Paralympic Games that followed.
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Park City
Number of Trails:107
- 18 Beginner (17%)
- 54
Intermediate (50%)
- 35 Advanced (33%)
Number of Lifts: 16
- 4 high-speed six-passenger chairs
- 3 high-speed quads
- 5 triple chairs
- 4 double chair
- 1 magic carpet
Season: late-Nov - mid April
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Vertical Drop: 1,480'
Summit Elevation: 10,000'
Base Elevation: 6,900'
Skiable Acres: 3,300
Longest Trail:3.5 miles
Avg. Annual Snowfall: 355"
Snowmaking: 475 acres
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Snowboarding: Yes
Terrain Parks: 4
Snowtubing: Yes
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The Canyons
Number of Trails:163
- 16 Beginner (10%)
- 72
Intermediate (44%)
- 75 Advanced (46%)
Number of Lifts: 17
- 3 gondolas
- 1 high-speed 6-passenger
- 3 high-speed quads
- 5 fixed grip quads
- 2 fixed grip triples
- 2 fixed grip doubles
- 1 surface lift
Season: late-Nov - mid April
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Vertical Drop: 3,190'
Summit Elevation: 9,990'
Base Elevation: 6,800'
Skiable Acres: 3,700
Avg. Annual Snowfall: 355"
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Snowboarding: Yes
Terrain Parks: 2
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Park City Mountain Resort, located in the heart of Park City, Utah, is the
most accessible mountain resort in North America. We are just 36 miles from
the Salt Lake City International Airport. Park City Mountain Resort was once
again ranked a Top-five ski resort by the readers of SKI magazine and a
Top-ten resort by the readers of Skiing, Freeskier and Transworld Snowboarding
magazines. The Resort is a year-round destination with skiing and snowboarding
in the winter and hiking and mountain biking in the summer, and has over 3,300
acres of unspoiled varied terrain.
The Canyons Resort caters to folks who really love to ski and snowboard and
can appreciate how well our diverse terrain holds and protects an average
annual 355 inch bounty of snow. Whether you visit as a family, a group or a
single, you'll find endless terrain for every style and ability. Take your
pick: Long and gentle. Big and Bowled. Steep and steeper. Aspen and pine. | | | _ | | _ | | |
Snowbird is for serious skiers. Steep, deep and certainly one of the easiest
resorts in the world to get to.
Located just 29 miles from the Salt Lake City airport, you can leave any U.S.
or Canadian gateway in the morning and shed jet lag with a few turns that same
afternoon. Same on your last day, ski all morning and catch an afternoon
flight home.
Snowbird is a self contained ski village with 4 separate lodges:
The Cliff Lodge and Spa offering hotel rooms and suites and
The Iron Blossom Lodge, The Inn at Snowbird and the Lodge at Snowbird offer
hotel rooms as well as condominiums that range in size from studio to 1
bedroom plus loft that will sleep up to 10 people.
The resort offers a variety of restaurants and lounges, and while Snowbird is
not known for nightlife or shopping downtown Salt Lake City is a short 30-45
minute ride away. This reporter has skied Snowbird all day and then caught
dinner and some Utah Jazz basketball that evening.
Talk with serious skiers who like challenging terrain and deep, deep powder
snow and invariably the conversation will turn to Snowbird. The resort
averages 500 inches of snow per year, yes skiers and riders, that's over 41
feet of snow. And, when it dumps in Snowbird it can be as good as it gets for
powder skiing due to the water content that the snow usually contains and the
HUGH amounts that pile up rather quickly.
Folks come to Snowbird to ski, and here you ski hard all day, enjoy the spa,
pool and hot tub facilities, have a great dinner and then get up and do it
again the next day. Again, options do exist in Salt Lake City but this
mountain usually tuckers out even the most fit skiers and riders.
Beginners and Intermediate skiers are not excluded at Snowbird as 27% of the
terrain is rated beginner and 38% is rated Intermediate. While we are on the
topic of terrain,Snowbird offers 2,500 acres of skiable terrain including HUGH
wide open bowls and some serious steep trails, chutes and such. All are served
by 1 tram, 4 quad chairs and 6 doubles.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have personally had some of my deepest, steepest and
best days ever in Snowbird. If you have never skied this resort before, it
should be a must add to your wish list, if you have been here before, you
know of what I speak is true. If you have ever been interlodged, you know
exactly what I am talking about.
Come ski Snowbird and experience some of The Greatest Snow On Earth.
| | | _ | | _ | | | Experience four of the greatest resorts in the Rockies when you purchase a Super Pass. Go to a different mountain everyday! Plus, the Super Pass gives you free transportation vouchers to get from Salt Lake City to the mountains and back! No rental car is needed. This Super Pass is only available to people who pre-purchase the ticket before arrival, and this ticket is not for sale at any of the resorts! Salt Lake City is the only place in the nation that puts the ambiance of the city within 40 minutes of the greatest snow on earth!
The Ski Salt Lake Super Pass may be redeemed for an all-day lift ticket at Alta, Brighton, Snowbird, or Solitude and includes the Snowbird Tram and Brighton Super Ticket (9am-9pm when night skiing is available). The Super Pass also includes round-trip transportation on UTA buses, ski buses, and TRAX light-rail.
| | | _ | | _ | | | Solitude Mountain Resort is a short 28 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport located high in the Wasatch Mountains where over 500 inches of Utah powder falls and breathtaking slopes rise 8,000 feet above glacier-cut Big Cottonwood Canyon. It is only 12 miles up Big Cottonwood Canyon from Wasatch Boulevard.
What it's known for: Solitude is known for its lack of crowds, great variety of terrain, award-winning trail planning, and an intimate European village featuring elegant lodging, exquisite dining, and impeccable service.
Best kept secret: Honeycomb Canyon, accessible by both Summit, and Powder Horn lifts, is one of many historical mining areas that existed over a century ago. If it were possible to take an x-ray of this canyon, it would resemble a honeycomb. Besides its historical significance, it is the home to the best off-piste powder skiing at Solitude with its open bowls, chutes and tree runs.
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