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Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County.With a skiable area of 2,614 acres (10.58 km 2), Alta's base elevation is 8,530 ft (2,600 m) and rises to 11,068 ft (3,374 m) for a vertical gain of 2,538 ft (774 m).
Powder Mountain is a ski resort located in the western United States east of Eden, Utah, stretching between Weber and Cache counties in the Wasatch Range which covers 12,000 acres (18.8 sq mi; 48.6 km 2), and is one of the largest ski resorts in the U.S. [1] [2] The resort was established in 1972, and has 162 trails, nine lifts, and two terrain parks; [3] it is 55 miles (90 km) northeast of ...
Snowbird resort is a year-round ski and summer resort located in the heart of the Wasatch National Forest on the eastern border of the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy. It is 29 miles (47 km) from Salt Lake City International Airport, 24 miles (39 km) from downtown Salt Lake City and 4 miles (6 km) east of the suburb of Sandy. The resort first ...
Snowbasin Resort is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Weber County, Utah, 33 miles (53 km) northeast of Salt Lake City, on the back (east) side of the Wasatch Range. [ 1 ] Opened 86 years ago in 1939, [ 1 ] as part of an effort by the city of Ogden to restore the Wheeler Creek watershed, it is one of the oldest continually ...
The first ski lifts appeared in 1946, when local residents Robert Emmett Burns, Sr. and Otto Carpenter constructed them, largely from nearby lodgepole pines. The ski area was called the Snow Park Ski Area, a name which endured from 1946 to 1969. [5] In 1981 Edgar Stern founded Deer Valley Resort in the same area and above. It has grown to ...
Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) is a ski resort in the western United States in Park City, Utah, located 32 miles (51 km) east of Salt Lake City. Park City , as the ski resort and area is known, contains several training courses for the U.S. Ski Team , including slalom and giant slalom runs.
Two Blackhawk helicopters crashed within a few hundred yards of a Utah ski resort Tuesday morning during a training exercise as skiers on a nearby lift watched a huge cloud of snow billow into the ...
Brian Head Ski Resort is a ski destination for Southern Utah and the southern California, Arizona, and Las Vegas areas. Located 3.5 hours north of Las Vegas and four hours south of Salt Lake City, it is Utah's southernmost ski resort. Brian Head Resort was established in 1964, and once operated as a one-chairlift resort.