Park City Mountain Ski Resort Guide & Reviews Ski Area, Apres-Ski, Things to See & Do in Park City
Park City Review
As one of the venues for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, Park City Mountain Resort has everything you could wish for on and off the slopes. The resort is known for being extremely family friendly, easy to get around on foot and caters for all levels of skier and boarder. Once a frontier mining town, Park City is not just a winter playground but also home to the Sundance film festival held during January - the second largest in the world!
Après-ski
Main Street is the hub of the resort with boutiques, saloon bars and restaurants that have managed to retain their traditional look and feel whilst offering state of the art facilities and services. For early apres-ski, you can ski down the Quit 'N Time or Creole runs at the end of the day where you'll find several lively bars.
| Key information (whole area) | |
|---|---|
| Altitude | 2103m |
| Top lift | 3048m |
| Family | |
| Beginner | |
| Intermediate | |
| Expert | |
| Ski area (acre) | 3300 |
| Longest run | 5 km |
| Off piste | |
| Cross country | km |
| Season | Nov - April |
| Snowboard parks | 4 |
| Heli Skiing | ✘ |
| Summer skiing | ✘ |
| Glacier skiing | ✘ |
| Babysitting | ✔ |
| Creche | ✔ |
| Apres ski | Lively & fun |
Park City Ski Area Guide
Park City Mountain Resort offers 7 Mountain Zones that provide a ski and ride experience for all ages, interests and abilities. Some of these areas are reserved for experts only so its important to undertstand the level of difficulty before jumping on the chairlift.
Beginners
Crescent Mountainzone is the gateway to the slopes, providing access to over 2,000 acres of skiing and riding terrain and home to the main nursery slopes.
After learning the basics, beginners can try the 5km Homerun from the summit of the Silverlode/Bonanza Mountainzone - skiing right down the mountain to the village.
Intermediate
The King Con Mountainzone provides the most intermediate terrain on the mountain, including the new Neff Land terrain park and Merrill Mini 13 halfpipe.
Advanced
With new snow, experts tend to head to the Jupiter Mountainzone where there is plenty of backcountry off-piste trails, wide-open meadows, challenging chutes and big powder stashes - most of these require a short hike from the Jupiter lift.
The other area for experts is Thaynes/Motherlode Mountainzone.
Snowboarding
The Crescent Mountainzone is home to the Eagle Superpipe and 3 Kings terrain park which allows you to ski under floodlights during the evenings. The other terrain parks are located at King Con Mountainzone and PayDay/Town Mountainzone.
Park City Mountain Lodging
There is a wide selection of rental accommodation from condos, chalets and lodges that range from being ski-in, ski-out at the base of the mountain to those where you need to use the free ski bus.
Many families choose to stay in a self catering vacation rental close to the slopes as this allows more flexibility and convenience of being near the slopes, ski lift and being able to walk in to Main Street.
Childcare
Ski schools take children from the age of 3 1/2 years but if you have toddlers, there are several day care centres to choose from such as Monkey Mountain that look after children from 6 months old.
For baby sitting, ParkCity Sitters provide in-room baby-sitting services - this needs to be booked in advance.
Things to See & Do
A superb resort for all the family with many things to see and do no matter what age. A few suggestions for your ski holidays...
- Gorgoza Park is a short drive - geared towards family fun with kids' snowmobile rides and tubing
- Alpine coaster and Flying Eagle zip line
- Toboganning
- Try a scenic ride behind a snow cat
- Take a scenic horse-drawn sleigh rides up to Snowed Inn Lodge - these can be booked through the lodge and can include dinner
Our view on Park City Mountain Resort
If you like family friendly ski resorts, long cruising blues, deep powder bowls and tree lined skiing, similar resorts to Park City Mountain Resort includes Copper Mountain and Sun Peaks in the Canadian Rockies.
