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| Heading up to The Canyons Resort in Park City |
In case you can’t tell by the title of this article, we love Park City. With first class snow, an awesome mountain town atmosphere and great dining what’s not to love. We were having so much fun that we extended our planned three night stay to a five nights and would have stayed longer if we had the time.
We caught an early morning (6:30am) flight from Reno to Salt Lake City in order to take advantage of the Quick Start Program which allows you the chance ski/snowboard for free on the day you fly into Salt Lake City. We landed at 9:00am, were quickly chauffeured to the Park Plaza hotel, checked in and on our first chairlift at Park City Mountain Resort by 10:30am. Anyone going to Park City for a ski holiday should definitely check into the Quick Start Program to see if you can save yourself $96 USD per lift ticket the day you arrive.
After our day on the slopes we ended up back at the Park Plaza hotel hot tub to soak our weary muscles. Unfortunately our peaceful soak was interrupted by a very obnoxious middle-aged Dermatologist (he told us 20 times he was a Dr.) who couldn’t go one minute without saying something rude to someone. I’ll refer to him as Captain Annoying. He told Pamela she was going to get skin cancer about 30 seconds after meeting her, he then proceeded to tell us, and everyone else in the hot tub, many-many tasteless and not very funny jokes. Abandoning Captain Annoying we hopped on a free shuttle to Main St. to check out some of the many art galleries before dinner. Dowtown Park City, aka Main St., has quite a few different galleries to peruse and admire. One of our favorite was a galleria featuring the nature photographs of Michael Fatali.
After our day on the slopes we ended up back at the Park Plaza hotel hot tub to soak our weary muscles. Unfortunately our peaceful soak was interrupted by a very obnoxious middle-aged Dermatologist (he told us 20 times he was a Dr.) who couldn’t go one minute without saying something rude to someone. I’ll refer to him as Captain Annoying. He told Pamela she was going to get skin cancer about 30 seconds after meeting her, he then proceeded to tell us, and everyone else in the hot tub, many-many tasteless and not very funny jokes. Abandoning Captain Annoying we hopped on a free shuttle to Main St. to check out some of the many art galleries before dinner. Dowtown Park City, aka Main St., has quite a few different galleries to peruse and admire. One of our favorite was a galleria featuring the nature photographs of Michael Fatali.
There are so-so many places to choose from for dinner in Park City. Our first night we tried out A Taste of Saigon for dinner and walked out of there completely stuffed from a beef stew and chicken curry. Our second night in Park City we had dinner at the Wasatch Brew Pub, where Pamela had a beer called Polygamy Porter which looked more like motor oil to me. We also tried out Bangkok Thai on Main St. for a dinner consisting of great satay and massaman curry, we can highly recommend them both.
One of Utah’s advertising slogans is “Utah, the greatest snow on Earth” and to the best of my knowledge they are not wrong. There are three main ski resorts within minutes drive of downtown Park City: Park City Mountain Resort, The Canyons and the ski only resort of Deer Valley. We snowboarded three days at the Park City Mountain Resort and had relatively decent snow on two of the three days. On the middle day the snow was more like pavement but a couple inches of snow overnight softened things up a bit. We also had a bit of celebrity sighting while on our lunch break, we were eating our lunch and noticed Josh Hartnett was sitting next to us.
Our fourth day of snowboarding was spent at The Canyons Resort. The Canyons is such a huge place, the fifth largest resort in North America, and is complete with the Orange Bubble Express chairlift with heated seats and an orange chair cover for protection from the wind and snow. Our après ski experience at Canyons was spent at the “ski beach” watching live musicians and sitting by a fire. While snowboarding at Canyons we ran into Captain Annoying again, this time he was harassing some other young people at one of the ski lodges. One of the girls was recording his ridiculous rants and subsequently uploading them to YouTube, it was pretty funny.
Unfortunately the time came around for us to fly back to Los Angeles. Had we more time we would have definitely stayed longer, maybe we’d even be there now if the snow was good. Hopefully next year or the year after we’ll be back in Park City for another snowboard trip.
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| Pamela testing out a thin coverage area |
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| Empty slopes means lots of picture taking opportunities |
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| The Sidewinder run at Canyons. We loved this run |
All the photos from our trip to Park City can be found here: https://picasaweb.google.com/117257906652666550268/ParkCityUtah?authuser=0&feat=directlink
Cheers for Now –
Pamela and Dave
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| Enjoying the views from Canyons |
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| Pamela and I on a really slow chairlift. I feel like I aged a bit. |
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| Looking down on the town of Park City from the top of Park City Mountain Resort |
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| Ready for a massive meal at the Wasatch Brew Pub |
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| Main St. trees at night |
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| Checking out Main St. Park City |
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