Park City things to do

Park City getting love in the New York Times: 36 Hours: Park City, Utah Djamila Grossman for The New York Times Skiers can take a quad lift right from Main Street to the slopes. More Photos » By DENNY LEE Published: February 2, 2012 TO ski or not to ski. That’s the luxury of Park City, Utah, the rare ski resort that offers lively diversions on and off the slopes. Historic Main Street...

Deer Valley skiing and accommodations

With no lift lines, plentiful powder and more snow in the forecast, it’s time to head to Deer Valley. Photo Courtesy of Deer Valley Resort. With almost four feet of snow at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort in the past week and more in the forecast, it’s time to get out and ski! Thanks to the new snow, a state-of-the-art snowmaking system and meticulous slope grooming, Deer Valley...

Park City skiing 2011-2012

The 2010-11 ski season was definitely one for the record books. Could a twin be in the making? Last winter’s record snow in Utah was a product of a climate condition known as La Nina, a flip-flop of the more well-known El Nino. It brought record snow depths to Utah’s Mountains — nearly 800 total inches at Snowbird — and 4.2 million skiers to in Utah. (The national count was 60.54 million...

Deer Valley and Park City skiing and lodging

Park City, Utah – By their lonesomes, the three big ski resorts in and around this former Wasatch Mountain mining town would have to be considered remarkable. Combined, they make for one of the best ski destinations anywhere in North America. And they just keep getting better, much to the joy of the thousands of skiers and snowboarders who flock here each winter to play. In fact, my family...

Utah skiing

Before the buildup for the Olympics 10 years ago, Snowbasin in Utah was little more than a mom-and-pop operation, with aging lifts and amenities and offices in a single-wide trailer. Now even its bathrooms are turning heads, with the Italian marble day lodge restrooms recently voted top five in the U.S. Plenty has changed since the 2002 Winter Games put Utah’s ski industry on the map. The...