UTAH

 
  Utah Ski Areas
         
   
Ski UTAH Greatest Snow on Earth!  Skiing Utah's world famous powder snow is truly the ultimate experience!   Winter Sports Near Ogden Utah   Wasatch Mountains, UT
    Alta    
 

 

Greetings from Alta, Utah, near Salt Lake City  A trip to romantic Alta at the head of Little COttonwood Canyon is a journey you'll never forget.  Marvelous mountain scenery, wonderful skiing where picturesque life of old time western mining days is still lived.  Here you may go underground and see where fortunes have been taken from the earth in gold and silver.  A trip underground in the romantic and interestind old Emma mine is alone worth traveling far to enjoy.

  

A speeding skier rockets down a powder snow slope toward Mt. Superior, at Alta, Utah
 
 
 
 

 
 

 

  
Alta, Utah, Beautiful, symetrical "figure 8s" created by Freidl Pfieffer, great ski stylist, on slopes of Rultler Mountain opposite New Alta Ski Lodge.  Alta's worls famous ski area offers excellent skiing and accommodations.  Hotel, 2 giant ski lifts, rope tows.  Skiing from November to June at altitudes from 8500 ft to 11,069 ft.

 
 
   
Alta, Utah  A bustling mining camp in earlier days, Alta is now a world famous winter resort located twenty eight miles south-east of Salt Lake City high in the Wasatch Mountains.  Ski lifts, Shelters, lodges and an observation lounge offer every accommodation for the visitor as well as the skier.   The trip through Little Cottonwood Canyon to Romantic Alta is a delightful excursion into an Alpine Paradise.  During June. July and August, one may go underground into a silver mine and find specimines of rich ore as a souvenir of the trip or climb the mountain sides among the riotous-colored wild flowers.  During the balance of the year, this granite-walled canyon offers the finest skiing in the world.   Where snow fun begins.  The Chair lift at Alta, in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, takes snow fans up the slopes where they can travel the famous runs at that resort.  Once a mining town, Alta is now a winter-sport center.
   
ALTA, UTAH   One of the finest winter sports areas in the country, Alta was once a rip-roaring early day silver mining camp.  A lodge, shelters, lofts and an observation lounge offer every comfort.  The eighteen-mile drive through the scenic Little Cottonwood canyon from Salt Lake City to Alta is kept open all year   Alta, Utah  High in the Wasatch Mountains, with an elevation over 8,600 feet, Alta offers skiing from early November through May.  Located twenty-eight miles southeast of Salt Lake City, this world-famous ski resort has every accommodation for the skier.

 

   Alta, Utah  One of the finest winter sports areas in the country, Alta was once a rip-roaring early day silver mining camp.  Lodges, shelters, lifts and an observationlounge offer every comfort.  The eighteen-mile drive through scenic Little Cottonwood Canyon from Salt Lake City to Alta is kept open all year.

 
   
Alta, Utah  Offering skiing from early November through May, this world-famous winter resort is noted for its excellent skiing conditions.  Numerous annual ski events are held and every accomodation extended to the visitor.  The scenic drive through Little Cottonwood Canyon is open all year and daily bus service is available from Salt Lake City.   Gorgeous wild flowers carpet this paradise during June, July and August.  During the balance of the year, it is blanketed with 8 to 12 feet of snow. offering the most superb skiing to be found anywhere.  Superior Mountain elevation 10,500 feet.  Lodge elevation 8,500 feet.   Alta, Utah.  Skiers and New Alta Ski Lodge Showing part of Rustler Mountain Ski-Bowl, at Alta's famous ski area.  Altitudes from 8500 ft. to 11,069 ft. Skiing from November to June.

 
   
Alta, Utah, elevation 8,600 feet.  Skiers begin their descent from the top of Germania Lift - Mt Superior towers in background.   Located in the incomparable alpine atmosphere of the Wasatch Mountain at an elevation of 8600 feet, Alta offers excellent accomodations and the finest powder snow and the best skiing in the world   Alta, Utah   Nestled in the beautiful Wasatch Mountains, Alta is one of the finest skiing areas in the country.  Shown is the Germainia lift which is the second of two ligts having a length of 6410 feet and a vertical rise of 1650 feet.
    Brian Head    
       
    Brian Head Ski Resort    
    Brighton    
   
Ski Lift Brighton, Utah.  This chair lift up the side of Mt. Millicent operates both winter and summer.  Nestled in a bowl-like valley almost surrounded by graggy mountain peaks, the deep powdered snow of the ski slopes at Brighton are readily accessible from Salt Lake City.   Ski lift and beautiful snow covered mountaind at the Alpine Rose Lodge in Brighton, Utah

 

 

 

   Alpine Rose Lodge,  Brighton, Utah

 

 

 

 
    Park City    
   
Park City Resort - Park City, Utah  National and international amateur and professional ski competitions are a big part of the winter scene at Park City Resort.  So is training for ski races --- members of the U.S. Alpine and Nordic Ski Teams train year round at U.S.S.A National Training Center located at Park City Resort.   Park City, Utah  Four passenger gondola and several double chairlifts serve over 40 miles of ski trails for beginning, intermediate and expert skiers at Park City Resort.  The Meadow, a beginning run, is enjoyed by skiers from November to April.

 

   Treasure Mountains Park City, Utah.  This major ski resort, with 18 miles of powder snow trails, served by a 2 1/2 mile gondola tramway, two chair lifts, two j-bar tows, is located in historic Park City, 24 miles east of Salt Lake City, on weather-free paved highways.

 
         
       
    Treasure Mountains, Park City, Utah.  This major ski resort, with 18 miles of powder snow trails, served by a 2 1/2 mile gondola tramway, two chair lifts, two j-bar tows is located in historic Park City,  24 miles east of Salt Lake City, on weather-free paved highways.

 

  

 
         
   
    Park City Utah, 2002 Olympic Winter Games   Park City Resort, Park City Utah.  Four passenger gondola's take Park City Resort skiers 2 1/2 miles up to some of the world's best skiing, including Utah's famous "Powder Snow."
         
    Salt Lake City    
     
Salt Lake City Utah, 2002 OlympicWinter Games       Salt Lake City Utah, 2002 OlympicWinter Games
         
    Snowbird    
   
The Tram at Snowbird, Snowbird, Utah 84070.  Phone (801)521-6040 Average snowfall 450.5" per year.  120 passenger jigback tramway. 6 minute travel time, 2900 vertical feet, 8395 ft. travel length, 1000 passengers per hour.   Snowbird Ski and summer Resort, Utah  Experience the winter in Little Cottonwood Canyon by lodging on the slope sides in Snowbird.  This resort offers fully appointed hotel and condominium units.  It also includes a wide range of amenities such as a spa, salon, child and infant care, deli, market, retail shops and more.   The Lodge and Tram at Snowbird
       
    The Tram at Snowbird, Snowbird, Utah 84070.  Phone (801)521-6040 Average snowfall 450.5" per year.  120 passenger jigback tramway. 6 minute travel time, 2900 vertical feet, 8395 ft. travel length, 1000 passengers per hour.

 

    

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