Deer Valley Resort is a luxury ski resort located near the historic mining town of Park City, Utah approximately 36 miles (58 km) east of Salt Lake City. A ski area is a developed recreational facility usually on a Mountain or large Hill, containing ski trails and vital supporting services Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the US state of Utah. Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U It has 22 chairlifts, 99 runs, and three day lodges. Deer Valley has 2,026 acres of mostly North-facing ski slopes. Lift ticket sales are limited to 6,500, capping crowds and reducing liftlines.
Deer Valley Resort is known as one of the few remaining ski resorts in the world that still does not allow snowboarders. A snowboard is a thin hourglass shaped board ridden down a sloped section of earth covered in snow
Deer Valley Resort opened in December 1981. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 It was one of the first ski resorts to offer ski valets to carry guests' ski gear from their cars to the slopes, to provide free parking lot shuttles, to have a state-licensed child-care facility on site, to uniform all its employees from kitchen staff to lift attendants, to provide tissues in the lift lines, to refer to customers as “guests” as they would be called at a hotel, to provide complementary ski check even overnight, to offer pagers to parents with children in the Children's Center, so they can be reached at a moment's notice.
- More than 560 acres have snowmaking machines.
- Hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games freestyle moguls and aerial, and alpine slalom events. The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIX Olympic Winter Games were a Winter Multi-sport event which was celebrated in 2002
- Deer Valley's Olympic stadium was 12 stories tall with seating for 10,000 guests.
- During the summer season Deer Valley Resort hosts multiple outdoor events including:
Deer Valley was built at the former site of "Snow Park," a ski area which operated from 1946-69. Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range in the Park City area of northern Utah. Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
External links
- Deer Valley Resort official Website
- Deer Valley - a brief history
- Park City area history - timeline
- Deer Valley Ski Resort - resort info, lodging options, real estate
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