guardsman pass

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 […]

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 […]

Today, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) announced that work to clear snow from Guardsman Pass, nestled between Big Cottonwood Canyon and the Park City Ridgeline in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, is complete, and the pass is open to the public. The announcement is a remarkable achievement considering work only began on Monday, June 5th. The pass is a short stretch […]