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Yesterday, Brandon Harvey skied Esplanade Burghal Abundance Resort. Today, he’s on the gondola headed mid-mountain at The Canyons.
“Tomorrow, I’m gonna analysis out Deer Valley,” the San Francisco built-in says. “Never been. I apprehend it’s affectionate of austere but not adamantine like the Canyons.”
That’s one of the big draws of Esplanade City. If you accept three days, you calmly can ski three resorts. In fact, if you accept the money and the inclination, you could ski all of them on the aforementioned day, because they’re alone about 10 account apart.
Park Burghal sits 32 afar east of Salt Lake City, in north-central Utah. Like Moab, the state’s added big resort town, it has the outdoors to acclaim it, including some abundance biking, fishing and hunting, hiking and golf.
Moab and Esplanade Burghal assume like opposites, however. Moab is all about the warm-weather activities, and Esplanade Burghal is far added about the cold.
Most people, though, accept heard about Esplanade Burghal because of the Sundance Blur Festival, which captivated up actuality a few weeks ago.
But not continued afterwards the town’s founding in 1870 by miners, association apparent that aloft the abundance shafts and underground alternation passageways sat mounds and mounds of creamy white stuff, and it kept on coming, alms prime skiing absolute acreage that they started demography advantage of as aboriginal as the 1920s.
Many debris of the town’s mining accomplished abide beneath the resorts, and the boondocks still sports added than 60 aboriginal Victorian barrio alternating its Main Street.
Add to the address a about airy drive from Salt Lake. In acceptable weather, which is best of the time, and during nonpeak times — which is any time that is not blitz hour or aloof afore or afterwards the lifts accessible and abutting — the drive takes about 30 to 40 minutes.
The association in Esplanade Burghal alike like to blow that it’s aloof as fast — or faster — to get from their abundance resorts to Denver than it is from Aspen to Denver any day, or to Denver from best resorts alternating the Interstate 70 aisle on those backward Sunday afternoons in mid-February afterwards a crumb day.
And it turns out that they’re right: My biking time to Esplanade City, including accepting to the airport 90 account early, was four hours and 50 minutes.
It’s that aggregate of accessible access, three varied-terrain ski areas and the bizarre — admitting added commercialized — boondocks that makes Esplanade Burghal a always alluring winter draw.
According to some longtime visitors — and added than a few association — the downside is that, amid the bigger absolute blur anniversary and the growing cardinal of Californians allotment Utah’s ski areas over brimming hills in their own state, Esplanade Burghal has changed. It’s too crowded, they say, and no best cool.
But you can acquisition affluence of blessed echo visitors who disagree.
“I started advancing to Deer Valley in 1998,” says David Adamson. “I acclimated to go to Colorado every year, but the snow in Utah is the best in the world, and the biking to and from L.A. is so easy.”
Adamson and his son Oskar, 6, who sports a winter cap with a bright-red mohawk bottomward its center, are benumbed out a continued delay on the Sterling Express chairlift with me at Deer Valley. There’s a bells demography abode on the run beneath us, and they’ve chock-full the lift to let the conjugal affair get bottomward safely.
The Adamsons — including Oskar’s brother, Charlie, 7, and mom Siulan Adamson — alive in Malibu, Calif. They appointment Deer Valley at atomic already a year. Oskar started skiing aback he was 3, and Adamson says this division he and Charlie accept been hitting Lucky Bill, a short, acute black-diamond run off the blooming Success on Bald Eagle that offers an accomplished befalling for progression on bumps.
“They’ve been able to get bigger so bound here,” David says, abacus that the ancestors additionally skis Mammoth Mountain, bristles hours from Los Angeles, as able-bodied as Utah’s Snowbird. “Mammoth gets so crowded, but actuality there’s allowance to move around, and there are places we all accept as favorites to ski.”
His are Daly Chutes and Daly Bowl, two double-blacks that authority a lot of crumb off the backbone of Empire Mountain, and Rattler, a arduous black-diamond off the Wasatch Express lift on Bald Mountain.
But those will accept to delay for accession day. The additional we are off the chairlift, he and Oskar are off to watch the NASTAR contest on the Race Advance run off Nabob, centermost bottomward the impeccably clean-cut mountain, one of the things Deer Valley is acclaimed for, alternating with its amenity-filled accessible bathrooms and analgesic on-mountain aliment (organic bistro bloom bar and abstraction station, oh my).
Deer Valley additionally is accepted and arguable as one of the aftermost three holdouts in the U.S. to prohibit snowboarding. (The added two are Utah’s Alta and Vermont’s Mad River Glen.)
That’s why on accession day, I acquisition myself administration a shuttle from Deer Valley to Esplanade Burghal Abundance Resort with Aaron Khosh, 15, his brother, Ryan Khosh, 17, and their best acquaintance Travis Jones, 17.
Avid snowboarders, they accept been advancing to Esplanade Burghal with their families from Newport Beach, Calif., together, and occasionally separately, for about six years.
They action the accepted articulate abutment and advance for one accession for their demographic — meaning, they frequently accuse anniversary others’ shredding abilities audibly and use the chat “sucks” a lot — alternating with administration their affidavit Esplanade Burghal is a abundant snowboarding abundance and their picks for the best runs.
“Park Burghal is absolutely advance out,” Jones says. “There’s never a lot of people, and the runs are absolutely wide, there’s absolutely a lot of room, which agency we can get up some acceleration and fail about afterwards accepting to anguish so much, like at places breadth it’s absolutely packed.”
The brothers, who biking absolutely a bit with their family, like that Esplanade Burghal is rarely icy. “The snow absolutely holds up,” Aaron says. “Even aback it’s cold, you’ll get some of that abrupt stuff, but it’s not super-slick like some ski areas breadth it turns into a afterlife zone.”
Ryan says he brand to appear up with loops that they can do afresh afterwards accepting tired, breadth there are wide- accessible runs with abbreviate lift curve and affluence of allowance to move. “We like to go up the Payday lift and afresh bottomward Homerun, it’s one of the beyond runs, and afresh go up Payday afresh and over to the Bonanza lift and do Homerun over there,” Ryan says. “And afresh we’ll do a bend of Claim Jumper bottomward to the Silverlode lift and about again, to Homerun and Claim Jumper. If you do that aboriginal in the day, everybody abroad is still over at the base.”
Aaron adds that they additionally like the smaller, adapter runs off the Bonanza lift. “There are all of these attenuated little chutes in there that you can find,” he says. “And you can aces about in amid the copse and acquisition little crumb stashes in there too.”
Park Burghal additionally sports the enviable Boondocks Lift, a armchair accurately in the average of it all that makes it heart-wrenching to be a bounded with a day job. It adds to the faculty that Esplanade Burghal is the Everyman’s mountain, the one with the best analytic priced eateries dotting its abject and the best assorted terrain, with the bigger cardinal of abecedarian trails of the three areas (27 percent).
All of that additionally adds to the crowds — on any accustomed day, it’s the alone one of the three that ability accept what can be alleged annihilation abutting to a lift line.
By comparison, The Canyons usually feels dead. But that’s partly because it’s huge — at 3,700 skiable acreage over eight mountains, it’s one of the bristles bigger in the country, and bodies get advance out quickly. And its low allotment of abecedarian breadth (10 percent) agency avant-garde and able skiers and snowboarders can mostly zoom about in accord afterwards annoying they’ll alarm the billowing pants off big packs of fluctuant starters.
The Canyons additionally has it set up so that if you’re not blockage at the resort, you esplanade in one of the parking lots aloof alfresco and hop on the Cabriolet, an amphitheater tram that brings guests in. It cuts bottomward on cartage and abuse central the resort, and makes for a beneath chaotic, added absolute feel.
Kendra Watts and Shelly Watson accept been advancing from Los Angeles for bristles years, blockage at a friend’s address and agreeable their time amid the Canyons and Esplanade City. Like the Adamsons, they ski Mammoth in California, but additionally are weary of the crowds and the expense.
“It’s aloof easier to pop over actuality and achieve in,” Watts says. “With the shuttles activity aback and alternating all the time, we aloof esplanade our car at the address and don’t alike drive afresh until we leave.”
The brace has been skiing calm for 10 years, and they’re acceptable abundant to absorb a lot of time in the copse and on the Canyons’ bowls.
“I adulation Murdock area, the copse in Condor are absolutely fun to bead in and out of from Boa,” Watson says. “She brand to backpack up and do the chutes up on the bowl. I like the chutes, but I abhorrence the hiking.”
They both acclaim Redpine Bowl, as well, for the copse in Magic Lines, and accept had abundant crumb canicule on Dream Peak.
“Some of these mountains go through all this actuality breadth bodies live, which is cool, to attending at these places while you’re skiing, and it can be some assignment to get way over to some of the peaks,” Watts says. “But it can be account it, because bodies are lazy; they don’t appetite to go breadth they accept to work. So if you do that, you’ll acquisition some bigger lines.”
Sometimes it’s aloof bigger to try accession mountain, as in the case of Gerry DeFilippo from Atlanta. He sitting in the snow abutting to a angle of trees, breadth the dejected Echo meets the blooming Zap, patiently cat-and-mouse for ski convoying to appear lift him down. He’s the additional actuality I’ve appear beyond on a blooming run who is disturbing with the Canyons as a beginner.
“I’m aloof giving up,” he says. “My wife and kids are accomplishing great, but I anticipate the greens actuality are harder than the greens I was on before. I can’t do it, and I don’t appetite to get hurt.”
DeFilippo’s wife, Sarah DeFilippo, and their three kids, Anthony DeFilippo, 13, Christopher DeFilippo, 15, and Emily Bermingham, 15, are off convalescent their skills, alike aggravating a few blues.
“The kids took lessons, and they’re accomplishing great,” Gerry says. “Anthony is acquirements how to snowboard, and he’s accomplishing amazingly well. I aloof feel like I’m in over my head.”
He doesn’t anticipate he’s accessible to accord up on skiing, however. “I’m activity to try one of the added ski areas first,” he says. “Then if I can’t accomplish it there, I’ll apperceive it’s me.”
And, of course, because they’re on a five-day visit, there’s still affluence of time to hit one of the two added resorts aloof bottomward the road.
Kyle Wagner: 303-954-1599 or travel@denverpost.com.
THE CANYONS
Season: Now-April 12, altitude permitting
Information: 435-649-5400; thecanyons.com
Terrain: 3,700 acres. 46 percent expert; 44 percent intermediate; 10 beginner. 163 trails, 2 breadth parks. Summit: 9,990 feet. Base: 6,800 feet. Vertical: 3,190 feet. Longest run: 1 mile.
Lifts: One eight-person gondola; one amphitheater gondola; one beating gondola; two fixed-grip doubles; one accelerated six-pack; bristles fixed-grip quads; four accelerated quads; two fixed-grip triple; one apparent lift.
Lift tickets: All-day: $79 adults, ages 7-12 and chief $46.
Hours: 8:45 a.m.-4 p.m. daily.
DEER VALLEY
Season: Now-April 12, altitude permitting
Information: 800-424-3337; deervalley.com
Terrain: 2,026 acres. 32 percent expert; 41 percent intermediate; 27 beginner. 99 trails, one breadth park. Highest summit, Empire: 9,570 feet. Base: 6,570 feet. Vertical: 3,000 feet. Longest run: 2.8 miles.
Lifts: One accelerated gondola; 11 accelerated advertisement quads; two fixed-grip quads; six amateur chairs; two bifold chairs.
Lift tickets: Full-day: developed $83, chief $59, ages 4-12 $50, ages 3-under $21. Half-day: developed $58, chief $41, ages 4-12 $40, ages 3-under $14.
Hours: 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. daily.
PARK CITY MOUNTAIN RESORT
Season: Now-April 12, altitude permitting
Information: 800-222-PARK; parkcitymountain.com
Terrain: 3,300 acres. 33 percent expert; 50 percent intermediate; 17 beginner. 107 trails, four breadth parks. Summit: 10,000 feet. Base: 6,900 feet. Vertical: 3,100 feet. Longest run: 3.5 miles.
Lifts: Four high-speed, six-passenger chairs; three accelerated quads; bristles triples; four doubles; one Magic Carpet.
Lift tickets: Full-day: developed $83, chief $56, ages 7-12 $52, beneath 12 free. Half-day: developed $66, ages 7-12 $42. Price includes night skiing.
Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily; Aboriginal Time and Payday lifts accessible for night skiing/riding until 7:30 p.m. through March 30.
Source: Resort websites
GET THERE: Frontier, Delta, United and US Airways fly into Salt Lake Burghal International Airport (SLC) from Denver International Airport (DEN) ceaseless starting at $98 annular trip. To get from Salt Lake to Esplanade City, you can hire a car at the airport, with the cars anchored beyond from the terminal barrio on the arena attic of the parking garages. There are assorted shuttle and van services, with the amount depending aloft the cardinal of bodies (about $30-$50 per actuality anniversary way), as able-bodied as clandestine cars and vans starting at $110 for the agent (try esplanade cityshuttle.com or parkcitytransportation.com). Additionally analysis the Esplanade Burghal Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau at parkcityinfo.com for added options.
It takes 30 to 45 account to drive to Esplanade City. Arch out of the airport activity east on Interstate 80. Merge assimilate Interstate 15 South/Interstate 80 East. Exit I-80 at the Kimball Junction/Park Burghal Exit 145 and buck right, branch southbound on Utah 224, until you appear into Esplanade City, breadth it turns into Esplanade Avenue.
GET AROUND: Esplanade Burghal could not accomplish it easier to get from point A to point B, including all three ski areas, as able-bodied as from lodgings to restaurants and shops. The town’s free, biodiesel-fueled bus arrangement runs circadian from 6:10 a.m. to 2:10 a.m. during the winter, and the Main Artery Trolley goes up and bottomward Main Artery and stops at the Old Boondocks Transit Centermost so you can affix to the bus. Download a map of the accomplished arrangement at parkcity .org/citydepartments/transportation /index.html. In addition, best of the above lodgings accept their own shuttles.
STAY: Chateau Après Lodge (1299 Norfolk Ave., 800-357-3556, chateauapres .com) sits in the affection of Esplanade Burghal and is adamantine to exhausted for the bargain. The basic apartment (think “That ’70s Show”) are dispersed but comfortable, and accommodate a clandestine bathroom, TV, buzz and WiFi, as able-bodied as continental breakfast. If you absolutely appetite a deal, do the abode affair for $38 a person. Winter ante alpha at $105 per night.
Goldener Hirsch Inn (7570 Royal St. E., 435-649-7770, goldenerhirschinn.com) does the Austrian ski berth affair right, alms an affectionate ambience mid-mountain at Deer Valley Resort (which agency ski-in, ski-out). The apartment are acquiescently busy with hand-painted furnishings, and the bathrooms are adapted with spa tubs and granite; best apartment accept clandestine balconies and wood-burning fireplaces. Added draws accommodate underground parking, ski valet, indoor-outdoor hot tubs and chargeless breakfast that includes made-to-order omelettes and waffles. Ante alpha at $469 per night in winter.
Newpark Auberge (1476 Newpark Blvd., 877-649-3600, newparkresort.com) isn’t like added Esplanade Burghal lodgings — it’s abundantly analytic priced, alike in winter, and this address auberge has a added abreast attending and feel. A one-bedroom apartment comes with a active allowance with sleeper sofa, absolutely abounding kitchen, spa tub, acrimonious floors and clandestine balustrade with hot tub for $169 a night. In February. Granted, this isn’t ski-in/ski-out — you’re about 10 account from The Canyons and 15 from Esplanade City. Ante alpha at $129 a night in winter for queen bed with queen sleeper daybed and mini kitchen setup; some time periods do accept a minimum-stay requirement.
Stein Eriksen Lodge (7700 Stein Way, 435-649-3700, steinlodge.com) does its namesake, the Norwegian Olympic Gold medalist, appreciative by consistently appetite (and mostly succeeding, see Page 2T) to be a accepted for luxury. The Deer Valley lodging, which sits mid-mountain and appropriately offers ski-in/ski-out appropriate to the Sterling Express lift, is expansive, with 180 rooms, all with jetted tubs and DVD players, and some with hot tubs on the decks or fireplaces. The sprawling circuitous has two lodges, one for arrivals, the added apartment the restaurant and lounge, a basin and hot tub, spa and advanced fettle centermost and agreeable alleviation area. One of the best amenities would accept to be the included bistro breakfast, with an eggs Benedict of the day, maple-glazed bacon and absolutely a advance of pastries, beginning bake-apple and house-made granola. Ante alpha at $835 in winter.
Washington Academy Inn (543 Esplanade Ave., 435-649-3800, washingtonschoolinn .com) is aloof two blocks from the Esplanade Burghal Boondocks Lift and adorable, an 1889 architecture that was absolutely a school, with the original, colossal windows that let in affluence of ablaze and 15 comfortable apartment abounding with aeon appliance and calamus beds. Clandestine bathrooms, robes, acceptable articles and a breakfast bistro anniversary morning featuring a appetizing acceptance and affluence of beginning bake-apple and pastries accomplish this a top B&B pick. Ante alpha at $185 per night in winter.
DINE: Aerial Internet CoffeeHouse & Cybercafe, 738 Main St., 435-649-0051, alpineinternet.net). Some comfortable daybed chairs, affluence of tables, an allurement to linger, bags of computers and acceptance with a acquirement — as able-bodied as best lattes with the ambrosial arced patterns — accomplish Aerial a abundant best for a cold, albino day or post-slope analysis on e-mail. Appetizing broiled appurtenances too.
350 Main (350 Main St., 435-649-3140, 350main.com) makes itself accessible to acquisition and adamantine to leave. Everything about this adapted brasserie is delightful, from the hip but still agreeable and alike adventurous dining allowance — this is a acceptable abode to sit at the bar, because the aliment account agency you don’t accept to accompany the “club” — to the adroit and generally benign card (check out the abstracted “menu de sante,” which appearance dishes that are aerial in antioxidants and acidity but low in fats and calories). Adulation the ahi and hamachi “tower,” adulation the coconut-enhanced lobster bisque, adulation the salads. Abundant account and wine list.
Good Karma (1782 Prospector Ave., 435-658-0958, goodkarmarestaurants .com) is a locals hangout, one of those best-kept secrets that seems to be boring accepting around. Hefty portions of Indian and Persian aliment are beatific out to the small, simple dining room; dishes such as the burn fasl basin for $22 are ideal for sharing, because there’s abundant tandoori lamb, saffron-kissed craven and veggies actuality to augment two for sure. Entrees appear with a best of basmati or saffron rice or minted couscous; the closing is adorable and additionally contains almonds. The baklava is a must, as the candied account agents will acquaint you.
Grappa (151 Main St., 435-645-0636, grapparestaurant.com) has the best broiler in a restaurant in town, and that’s the table to snag. But no amount breadth you sit in this absorbing Italian cafe, with its apparent brick and trompe l’oeil trees, the atmosphere is balmy and welcoming. The card is innovative, Italian abstract with a twist, such as abstain bonbon “carbonara” and broiled arbor of lamb served with basis vegetables ancient into a lasagna. The grappa agenda is a acceptable one for admirers of the Italian brandy fabricated from pressed-grape residue.
Jean Louis Restaurant & Bar (136 Heber Ave., 435-200-0260, jeanlouisrestaurant .com) could be super-snooty, but the menu, while cher (almost all of the entrees are added than $30), surprises by actuality fabricated up of aboveboard book that’s done awfully well. Focused primarily on French and Italian foods, the dishes accommodate things such as North American elk loin with boysenberry booze and broiled Atlantic apricot sided by a auto risotto. But it’s all arbiter absolute and served in the affected amplitude by awful competent staffers. The amber souffle is the way to finish.
Lookout Cabin (on Lookout Peak at the top of Golden Eagle and Abbreviate Cut chairlifts, The Canyons) is a analytic priced sit-down advantage for an on-mountain lunch. The seared ahi adolescent cycle appetizer is appetizing and big abundant to share, and the accomplished house-made soups are meal-sized. The angle from the advanced aperture of the Wasatch Mountains are amid the best around.
The Mariposa (7600 Royal St., in the Silver Lake Lodge, 435-645-6715, deervalley.com) should carbon itself and afresh be plunked bottomward in every burghal — the account is spot-on, the aliment is amazing, and the adornment is admirable and adventurous but will achromatize abundantly into the background. The tasting card with commutual wines (especially if you aren’t driving) is the way to go, to accord yourself a adventitious to get the abounding ambit of the kitchen here, but if you aren’t up for that abundant aliment or time commitment, the agrarian augment beggar’s purse will accept you allurement for added beaujolais reduction, and the sablefish Mariposa, with its honey-tamari glaze, is awfully good. Additionally noteworthy: They’ll do the tasting all-vegetarian.
Seafood Bistro (1375 Deer Valley Drive, 435-645-6632, deervalley.com) puts the “buff” in bistro by featuring the abundant hitters that best all-you-can-eat spreads shy abroad from — namely, angle and mollusk and affluence of it, such as raw oysters, baron and Dungeness crab, peel-and-eat tiger shrimp, sashimi and sushi and house-smoked salmon. But a adeptness bounded warned us wisely to hit the adapted angle first, and those dishes were absolutely the best: yellowfin tuna, bass and halibut, all seared to adjustment with commutual sauces. A abstraction station, hot and algid appetizers and salads and a dozen desserts that included a adorable aliment pudding with caramel booze and a bottomless basin of afresh aerated cream, angled out a agriculture aberration that has fabricated this one of the best awash eateries.
Shabu (333 Main St., 435-645-7253, shabupc.com) gets some advice from the barter in the final artefact by accepting you advice baker the meal at the table. Named for shabu shabu, the Japanese hot-pot appearance of cooking, this beautiful beanery with its black-and-white table treatments and aphotic attic walls offers the advantage of allotment broths and meats you baker at the table, or approved entrees. If you go for entrees, the miso-glazed atramentous cod is a crispy, candied delight.
Yuki Arashi (586 Main St., 435-649-6293, yukiarashi.com) serves sushi and French-influenced Asian tapas, which agency you can eat as little or as abundant as you like from the diffuse and ambrosial card — the mollusk shooters with blanch egg and ponzu, the hamachi carpaccio and the lamb “lollipops” are all recommended, though. There are several means to banquet — the arrant sushi bar, which has fun people-watching and can be apparent from the artery but can get a bit noisy; an affectionate booth; or the air-conditioned booty on a tatami room, with a aloft board bank for ample groups or aloof two, afar by curtains. Cafeteria is usually beneath crowded.
Zoom (660 Main St., 435-649-9108, zoomparkcity.com) joins a ancestors of Sundance-owned eateries, which makes faculty for the home of the acclaimed blur festival. Rustic and funky, the abode is breach in two central the old Union Pacific railroad depot, with the account kitchen on one ancillary and a added accidental bistro amplitude and bar on the other. The card is flush abundance food: addle osso buco, buttermilk mashed potatoes, ribs, five-cheese ravioli. As with best Esplanade Burghal city joints, cafeteria is cheaper and beneath crazy.
ENJOY: Aerial Coaster (at Esplanade Burghal Abundance Resort, 800-222-7275, parkcity mountain.com). The aboriginal time, you’ll hit the anchor already or alert on this aerial accelerate because you won’t assurance that the little car won’t go aerial off. The abutting time, aloof let go. This affair is aloof too abundant fun and actual fast, a way to let go afterwards a day of arresting those anatomy on the slopes and instead scream bottomward the mountain, no holds barred. Kids of all ages — I watched a man and his two grandkids barrage accomplished aerial — adore the 4,000-foot drop, and the lift up is a nice, apathetic way to analysis out the Wasatch mountains. Cost: $20 for adults per ride, $7 kids over 3 and beneath 54 inches.
Kimball Art Centermost (638 Esplanade Ave., 435-649-8882, kimball-art.org). The nonprofit association arts centermost offers a well-lighted, warehouse-size amplitude to appearance exhibitions in three galleries, abounding from Utah artists. Advancing up: works from the Chicano-heavy accumulating of Cheech Marin, March 21-May 3. Chargeless admission, bankrupt Tuesdays.
Ski Butlers (877-754-7754, skibutlers.com) makes it accessible to abstain or cut bottomward on fees for added or ample baggage by affair you at your abode with accessories in hand. I brought my custom-fitted boots, and the accessible Ski Butlers association artlessly met me at the ski aide at the hotel, fit the boots to the skis I had best out advanced online, fabricated some adjustments, and I was acceptable to go. They’re accessible 7 a.m.-9 p.m. daily, and costs alpha at $25 a day for action and inferior achievement bales and go to $59 a day for a high-performance additional package. Bonus: Already your preferences and advice are in the system, they accept it permanently, and in accession to assorted Utah locations they action casework in Colorado, Wyoming and California ski areas.
Gorgoza Esplanade Tubing Hill (Gorgoza Park, 3863 W. Kilby Road, run by Esplanade Burghal Abundance Resort, 435-658-2648, parkcity mountain.com/winter/activities /tubing_at_gorgoza/index.html). The lift-served tubing at Gorgoza Hill hits bristles tube lanes, three for amateur tubers and four for those who appetite to let ‘er rip. Tubes provided. There’s additionally a acropolis comedy breadth for the under-6 set. Cost: tubing ages 3-6, $3 for 1 ride, $10 for 2 hours, $15 for 4 hours; ages 7 and up, $8 for 1 ride, $20 for 2 hours, $29 for 4 hours. Acropolis Frosty $6 or chargeless with tubing ticket.
White Pine Touring (1790 Bonanza Drive, 435-649-8710, whitepinetouring .com) can angle you up with the accessories to go cantankerous country skiing, snowshoeing, decline skiing, skating, you name it — either rentals or to buy, and they can set you up with advice on breadth to go or get you a guide. They additionally run the Nordic Centermost at Esplanade Avenue and Thaynes Canyon Drive (435-649-6249), which offers 3K, 5K and 10K loops.
MORE INFO: parkcityinfo.com
Kyle Wagner
