Park City, UT, Sets Tourism Record Last Season Despite Historic Ski Patrol Strike Park City, Utah, wrapped up its 2024-25 ski season with the highest tourism revenue in town history, despite a winter marked by modest snowfall and a high-profile ski patrol strike. Preliminary numbers from the Park City Chamber of Commerce show a new record for transient room tax collections—a key metric that tracks both nightly rates and lodging occupancy. Related: Why […] Martin Kuprianowicz | May 28, 2025 0 Comments
Sundance Resort, UT, Announces Pivotal Terrain Expansion and New High-Speed Lift In a bold move to elevate its standing in Utah’s competitive ski market, Sundance Resort has confirmed it will add a new high-speed quad lift and significantly expand terrain by the 2026-27 ski season, as reported by The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast. This much-anticipated project, which is centered on Sundance’s highest and best “back mountain” terrain, will add 165 […] Industry News Brent Thomas | May 21, 2025 0 Comments
9,717′ Guardsman Pass, UT, Now Open for the Summer Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) announced today that Guardsman Pass is open for the summer. This high-altitude route connects Park City to Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains and provides access to Central Wasatch’s best backcountry terrain. Some stretches of the road were buried under as much as 11 feet of snow, resulting from another robust winter in the Wasatch. “Guardsman […] SnowBrains | May 20, 2025 0 Comments
Local Billionaire Wants to Buy Park City Mountain Resort, UT, From Vail Resorts and Build Gondola to Alta Matthew Prince, a billionaire tech entrepreneur and CEO of Cloudflare, has purchased the Town Lift Plaza at the base of Park City Mountain in Utah and claims he has even discussed purchasing Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) from Vail Resorts, according to KPCW. The deal, finalized May 16, transfers ownership of the prominent Main Street property from the Sweeney family, […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 18, 2025 0 Comments
Today’s Deepest Open Resorts—North America’s Biggest Snowfalls on May 15 It’s dumping. Kinda. The last time I compiled this list was in early April, and I was honestly glad that I wouldn’t have to trawl hundreds of ski resorts’ conditions pages every day until at least November. But I take that back and am delighted to report significant accumulations at these open resorts today. May powder days. Who’d have thought? […] SnowBrains | May 15, 2025 0 Comments
The 9 Most Expensive Daily Lift Tickets in the USA Last Season Three-hundred-dollars. 300 big ones. A week’s pay or more for many full-time laborers in America—workers in the very same ski towns that charge these exorbitant prices for a day lift ticket. How do these honest people afford to go skiing? Or do they? Related: Understanding Dynamic Pricing in the Ski Industry It’s happening; daily ski ticket prices are reaching unprecedented […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | May 12, 2025 30 Comments
9,717′ Guardsman Pass Buried Under 11 Feet of Snow as Utah Crews Begin Clearing Crews with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) have begun the annual task of clearing SR-224 Guardsman Pass. This high-altitude route connects Park City to Big Cottonwood Canyon in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains and provides access to Central Wasatch’s best backcountry terrain. As of this week, about 65 percent of the road has been cleared, but significant challenges remain: Some stretches […] SnowBrains | May 2, 2025 0 Comments
Man Charged With Aggravated Assault After Altercation With Another Skier at Deer Valley Resort, UT A Connecticut man faces a felony charge after an alleged assault on the slopes of Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, left another skier with serious injuries, reports KSL News Radio. Related: Man is Suing Actress Gwyneth Paltrow for $3.1-Million After Alleged ‘Hit & Run’ at Deer Valley Resort, UT Paul Howard Kauffman, 63, of Wilton, Connecticut, was charged […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 24, 2025 0 Comments
On the Ground at the 2025 Uninvited Invitational—Celebrating Women in Snowboarding 75 riders from 20 countries traveled to Woodward Park City, Utah, to compete in this year’s Uninvited Invitational. The all-female snowboard competition spanned over four days—two prequalifying days followed by a finals day and a community ride event. With a collective $60,000 worth of prize money, these ladies showed up, strapped in, and threw down on the street-style course. Related: […] Miles Nagel | April 17, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Over a Foot of New Snow Possible For Utah This Week A late-week storm will bring fresh snow across the Utah mountains from Wednesday night through Saturday, with Southern Utah favored for the highest totals. Conditions start off dry and warm, but a cold front moving in late Wednesday will usher in meaningful snowfall for many resorts, followed by a gradual tapering on Sunday. Beyond the weekend, a near-normal precipitation pattern […] Weather WeatherBrains | April 15, 2025 0 Comments
New Patsy Marley Development Project at Alta Ski Area, UT, Raises Local Concern The Alta Planning Commission (APC) recently accepted comments from the public regarding its new Patsy Marley development plan. Locals from the touring community have some concerns about the 26-acre lot that sits at the end of the Albion Summer Road. During the winter, it provides access to the popular Grizzly Gulch backcountry, utilizing the summer road as a trail to […] Industry News Miles Nagel | April 10, 2025 0 Comments
Ski For $3.80 Per Day? Only This Spring at Brian Head Resort, UT The ski season is ending, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more opportunities and deals for skiers. Brian Head Resort was the first ski resort in Utah to open for the 2024-25 winter season, welcoming skiers and snowboarders on Friday, November 8, with top-to-bottom skiing and snowboarding on Navajo Mountain. As winter fades into spring, families looking for an affordable ski […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | April 7, 2025 0 Comments
The 9 Ski Areas With the Most Lifts in North America When evaluating a ski area, it’s important to factor in the number of lifts that the resort has because that number influences the time that you will spend in line, the terrain that you can shred, and the number of other skiers that you will encounter on the mountain. Here is a list of the nine ski areas in North […] Brains Liam Abbott | April 3, 2025 1 Comment
Why the ‘ONE Wasatch’ Concept of Interconnected Resorts in Utah Hasn’t Come to Fruition For years, the concept of ‘ONE Wasatch’ has fascinated skiers and snowboarders who dream of an interconnected ski experience in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. The proposal aims to link six major ski resorts—Alta, Snowbird, Brighton, Solitude, Park City Mountain, and Deer Valley—via a series of lifts and runs, creating one of the largest ski networks in North America. It would include […] Industry News Brent Thomas | April 3, 2025 1 Comment
Red Bull Cascade 2025: How Bobby Brown Expresses His Unique View of Freeride Skiing at Solitude Mountain Resort, UT In 2023, Bobby Brown, with help from Red Bull, officially held his first iteration of Red Bull Cascade, in Winter Park, Colorado. Bobby Brown has been known in the ski world for years with an extensive background in slopestyle skiing and many X-Games medals as well as for his film productions with Red Bull. His new event, Cascade, was created […] Industry News Anders Henrikson | March 31, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Forecast: Spring Dump Brings Over a Foot of Snow to Utah This Week A series of active weather systems will bring fresh snow to the Utah mountains through the end of the week, with periods of heavy snowfall and strong winds at times. Expect snow levels to drop to many valley floors during the first system, followed by daily mountain snow showers that persist through Saturday. By late weekend, conditions will turn drier […] Weather WeatherBrains | March 31, 2025 0 Comments
SnowBrains Podcast | Andrew McLean – Big Mountain Scientist This episode of the SnowBrains podcast is brought to you by Club Med. Andrew McLean is a legendary ski mountaineer, author, inventor, and Big Mountain Scientist. In 2017, Powder Magazine voted Andrew one of the “48 Most Influential Skiers of All Time.” Andrew is one of the best ski mountaineers on the planet, having skied first descents on every continent and […] Podcasts Podcast | March 27, 2025 0 Comments
Salt Lake City, UT, On Track For One of its Lowest-Ever Season Snowfall Totals Salt Lake City, Utah, has long been considered one of the best spots to have relatively easy access to lots of good snow while not excluding yourself from civilization. While in recent years, getting from Salt Lake City to the ski resorts has been more challenging, Salt Lake still remains one of the best hubs for skiing in the world […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | March 27, 2025 0 Comments
From Silver Boom to Powder Legend: The Alta Ski Area Story High in Little Cottonwood Canyon, dawn breaks with the echoing boom of avalanche cannons across serrated peaks–a morning ritual at Alta Ski Area that hints at its rich and restless history. Few ski resorts can claim a genesis as dramatic as Alta’s: a silver mining boomtown turned ghost town, resurrected in 1938 as a skier’s paradise atop Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. […] Clay Malott | March 26, 2025 0 Comments
Will The Little Cottonwood Canyon, UT, Gondola Ever Get Built? In 2020, the Utah Department of Transportation announced three possible strategies to help reduce traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon. The proposed solutions were a cog railway or a gondola to shuttle visitors to ski resorts Alta and Snowbird or a new and improved bus system to shuttle more skiers up the canyon. The gondola was the option that was chosen […] Industry News Gregg Frantz | March 25, 2025 2 Comments