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The new Snow Park Village project at Deer Valley, Utah, was discussed at length in a Park City Planning Commission meeting on October 9. The weekly planning commission meeting discussed the proposed new village and gondola system in Deer Valley’s Snow Park Lodge area. A Special Meeting of the Park City Planning Commission will be held on October 30 to address more details and public concerns.
The Snow Park Village will be a new hub for the popular skier-only resort. It is anticipated that Snow Park Village will provide gondola access to Silverstar, as the current plans stipulate that it needs to be granted. A gondola has been discussed at Deer Valley for almost 30 years, but this project is finally becoming a reality.
The gondola station at Snow Park Village would offer connections to Silverstar, the new East Village development (formerly known as Mayflower), and a parking lot off Interstate 40 at the new Deer Valley expansion. The Carpenter Lift will be realigned to make space for the gondola and a new beginner ski pod will be installed adjacent to the new gondola alignment serviced by a new circulator lift (Lift 7).
The new hub will host shops, hotels, and restaurants and offer more than 1,977 visitor parking spaces. Day parking will be limited to 1,360 parking spots, while the remainder will be for hotel guests and ski clubs. In addition, the hub will have a bus terminal in hopes that some visitors can be diverted onto public transport. The new hub is hoped to alleviate traffic congestion in Park City by encouraging visitors to park outside and take gondolas into the ski area. In addition, affordable housing will be built within the city limits, which will be connected by public transport to the new hub at Snow Park Village.
Creating an aerial linkage will be particularly important in light of the upcoming Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City in 2034. The Snow Park Village plans will be reviewed in depth on November 13 and December 11. The new hub is anticipated to be completed by December 2025. However, the gondola infrastructure will not necessarily be in place by then.
