PARK CITY

Ski & Snowboard Resort Review

Park City , UTAH , USA has over 100 trails and an excellent snow record of 350+ inches of dry powder snow each season.

Park City Skiing and Snowboarding Terrain

The skiing and snowboarding terrain consists of easy gentle beginner trails; corduroy long wide groomed cruising trails, treed terrain, powder chutes and open powder bowls.

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Park City Mountain Resort

Advanced Skiing and Snowboarding

In fresh snow the double black steep chutes of Pinecone Ridge offer deep powder turns leading into heavily treed terrain; just be prepared for a small hike to access the best drops.

The McConkey’s Chairlift, leads to the double black diamond steep chutes in the McConkey’s and Puma Bowls.

For big moguls head to Fools Gold and Glory Hell runs accessed via the Motherlode Chairlift.

Intermediate Skiing and Snowboarding

Intermediates have many choices at Park City Mountain Resort; they can happily cover the entire resort on groomed trails. Park City Mountain Resort has a unique ‘signature run’ grooming program; advanced trails that are usually left in their natural state are groomed to enable intermediate skiers and snowboarders access to explore the resort on trails they would not usually be able to access. Just look for a grooming report each morning at the base area to see what has been groomed overnight.

The intermediate trails on the mid mountain section and around the King Con Chairlift are steep, fast and wide.

For a fast tree lined groomed trail head to the Puma Bowl for a run down Sunrise.

Beginner Skiing and Snowboarding

The majority of the beginner trails are located in the base area of the resort. Once beginner confidence grows head up to the mid mountain area to cruise back down to the base area on the gentle, wide Homerun Trail. The 3.5 mile long Homerun Trail begins at the top of the Pioneer Chairlift and is the longest trail at Park City.

Beginner lessons are available from Park City Mountain Resort’s Ski and Snowboard School. Lessons meet at the base of the PayDay Chairlift before heading over to the First Time beginner slope.

Park City Terrain Park and Halfpipe

Park City Mountain Resort’s terrain parks were ranked number one in the US by ‘Transworld Snowboarding Magazine’ in 2004-2005. King’s Crown Park is an intermediate standard park with four medium sized jumps, twenty rails and a couple of fun boxes.

Pick’n Shovel Park is the park to learn how to jump with six main jumps as well as fun boxes and rails.

Jonesy’s Park is super sized with 50, 60 and 70 foot jumps as well as rails and fun boxes.

The PayDay Jib Park is open all day and into the evenings and has rails and boxes suitable for all levels.

The perfectly shaped Eagle Superpipe has 22 foot walls and is longer than 500 feet.

Park City Night skiing and snowboarding

The First Time and PayDay Chairlifts are open from 4pm to 7.30pm every night for night skiing and snowboarding.

Park City Snowcat and Heli Skiing and Snowboarding

Snowcat and heli skiing and snowboarding is operated by Park City Powder Cats & Heli Ski in the nearby Thousand Peaks Ranch. The Ranch is spread over 40,000 acres of privately owned land.

A typical heli skiing and snowboarding day consists of six runs between 8,000 and 12,000 vertical feet with one experience guide per three guests.

A typical snowcat skiing and snowboarding day consists of 8 to 12 runs between 8,000 and 12,000 feet with two experienced guides per group.

Gourmet picnic lunches and avalanche transceivers are provided.

Other Activities at Park City

Other activities available at Park City include cross country skiing, dog sledging, hot air ballooning, ice skating, snowmobiling tours and sleigh rides. Go to the nearby Gorgoza Park for lift served snow tubing that’s fun for all ages.

Park City Shopping

While the town of Park City has many ski and snowboard equipment shops, fashion boutiques, art galleries, souvenir stores, jewellers and grocery and food stores there are only two shops in Park City Mountain Resort.

Legacy Sports in the Legacy Lodge has all the latest fashion in ski and snowboard equipment and clothing for sale. Park City Mountain Rentals, also in the Legacy Lodge, has many brands of rental skis and snowboards available. Overnight ski and snowboard storage is available.

On Mountain Restaurants at Park City

In total there are eight on mountain restaurants at Park City Mountain Resort.

Legends Bar & Grill is open for après ski drinks and dinner. The Legacy Lodge is open for lunch serving gourmet salads, deli style sandwiches and homemade pasta.

Pay Day Pizza has delicious pizzas and imported beer and shows all the latest sporting events from around the country on large screen TVs.

The Snow Hut, at the base of the Silverlode Chairlift, has cafeteria style dining and a very large outdoor sundeck.

Summit House has spectacular views of Park City and is located at the top of the Bonanza Chairlift serving breakfast and lunch daily.

Located halfway down the Homerun Trail the European style coffee house, Five Way Cafe serves homemade crepes, sandwiches and a soups for lunch.

The Mid Mountain Lodge is located halfway down the Mid Mountain trail next to the Pioneer Chairlift in a historic miner’s lodge. It is well known by locals as having the best home made chili and chowder in Park City.

Kristies Coffee Cafe serves muffins, good coffee and bakery snacks all day from 8am to 5pm.

The town of Park City has more then one hundred restaurants and bars. The restaurants range from fine dining to take away fast food. Cuisine includes; European, American, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Mexican and seafood.

Utah and Park City Liquor Laws

By law full service bars in Utah must be called private clubs; this means to enter membership is required. At Park City guests need to purchase membership before they can enter a bar or club and purchase Alcohol to drink. The memberships cost $4 each and are valid for three weeks.

Memberships need to be purchased for every bar or club you wish to enter. Each member can have up to seven guests at the one time in one bar or club.

Low strength beer can be purchased at grocery stores. Only State Liquor Stores can sell full strength beer, wine and spirits. There are three State Liquor Stores in the town of Park City.

New for 2007/2008 at Park City

Diseased trees cleared between Single Jack and Sunnyside trails leaving scattered trees perfect for advanced intermediate powder tree skiing and snowboarding, the area has been named the Motherlode Meadows.

A new intermediate trail, Georgeanna has been cut through Molly's woods leading off the Tycoon trail ensuring a gentle intermediate run to the base of McConkey's Bowl.

Additional low energy snow making guns have been installed throughout the resort and three new snowcats have been purchased which will operate on bio diesel fuel.

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Andrew Chambers. May 2006 PROS - huge snow dumps - perfect terrain for all levels, young children included - Town Lift originates literally in the middle of the town ensuring a short walk for many holiday makers - mountain divided into 4 areas; Base Area perfect for beginners and children; East Side and Pinecone Ridge for advanced and experts only; Mid Mountain generally best suited for intermediates - good terrain parks - gourmet dining available on mountain as well as in the town CONS - very crowded in peak times - Expensive every thing from lunch to accommodation to equipment - mormon state, very weird alcohol laws for those of us who enjoy a full strength beverage.

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