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Deer Valley Plans Gondola Link to Park City’s Main Street

More big news out of Park City, UT following Vail Resort’s $50 million dollar plans to connect Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort. Deer Valley Resort has unveiled plans to build a gondola transporting people from the ski lifts at Deer Valley directly to Main St. in Park City center. The gondola will provide a convenient and effective way to move skiers, tourists, and even employees from the slopes to the most popular spots in Park City. Deer Valley is considering two alternative plans, one involving a single gondola from Park City’s Old Town transit center to Silver Lake Village, the other […]
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Skier Takes 500-Foot Ride in Avalanche in Park City, UT

A skier was caught in an avalanche Friday afternoon in the Dutch’s Draw area near Canyons Ski Resort. After triggering the slide up near the “Goal Posts”, he was carried about 500 feet, managing to stay on top of the wash. Buried up to his neck, the skier was dug out by his party, and he luckily walked away unharmed. According to the report from Utah Avalanche Center, the avalanche was 300 feet wide and ran 500 vertical feet. UAC received a report from the skier caught in the avalanche, who’s said to be “one of the most experienced […]
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Park City & Canyons to Connect in 2015 | Largest Ski Resort in USA Being Formed

Park City and Canyons will connect

Park City was bought by Vail this year after an epic legal battle with PowdrCorp. Vail now owns Park City and The Canyons ski resorts and they are adjacent to each other. The logical next move? Join them together and make the largest ski resort in the USA at 7,300 acres of skiable terrain. Vail will be putting $50 million into the two resorts. Projects include a new gondola, a new restaurant, some undefined new chairlifts, and more. This […]
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VAIL: Park City & Canyons WILL CONNECT in 2015/16

Park City - Canyons connect.

Vail just bought Park City ski resort last week for $182.5 million. What many of us missed in the announcement is that they stated that they will be connecting Park City ski resort to the Canyons ski resort (also run by Vail). When these two ski resorts connect, it’ll create the largest ski resort in the USA. The Canyons has 4,000 skiable acres. Park City has 3,300 skiable acres. Combined, they’d have over 7,400 skiable acres making it the biggest ski […]
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BREAKING: Vail ACQUIRES Park City for $182.5 million in CASH

VAIL BUYS PARK CITY

We just saw on the newswires that Vail has settled its lawsuit against Park City by acquiring the resort from Powdr Corp. for $182.5 million in cash. This is surely the outcome that Vail was aiming for from day one. What does it mean for local and visiting skiers? Mountain operations of PCMR and Canyons will remain separate for the 2014-2015 ski season. However, Vail’s Epic and Epic Local passes will be valid at PCMR. All PCMR passes for the […]
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Park City, UT Pays $17.5 Million to Operate This Winter:

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On Friday, September 5th, 2014 a Utah District Judge stated that Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) would have to post a $17.5 million bond to operate the Park City ski resort during the 2014/15 winter season. If they don’t post this bond, they’d be evicted and would not be able to open the ski resort this winter. Yesterday, PCMR agreed to pay the $17.5 million to operate this winter. This is great news as it means that the ski resort will be open this winter. PCMR is appealing the ruling that they have to move out and Vail is going to move […]
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Did Park City Execute the Greatest Blunder of All-Time?

A recent court order all but seems to have closed the book on the struggle to control the resort at Park City, Utah. In what apparently was an oversight of the most colossal variety, the former operators of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) missed the deadline for renewing their lease. Always the opportunist, Vail Resorts swooped in and snatched it from their grasp. A shocking turn of events to say the least. Somewhere, someone at PCMR […]
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