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Here are our Editors Favorite Park City
Attractions!
Utah Olympic Park
The
Utah Olympic Park is a winter sports park built for the 2002 Winter
Olympics, and is located 3.5 miles from Park City, Utah. During the 2002
games the park hosted the bobsleigh, skeleton, luge, ski jumping, and
nordic combined events. It still serves a training center for Olympic
and development level athletes. Other facilities in addition to the ski
jumps and bobsled track located on site include a 2002 Winter Olympics
and Ski Museum, day lodge, summer aerial training splash pool, ziplines,
and a mountain coaster.
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Park City Main Street Mall
P ark
City Main Street is lined with quaint shops, boutiques and galleries.
Here is where you can find the latest fashions for every occasion. There
are children stores, funky teen shops, sporting goods and designer
collections for women. Art Galleries present a distinctive selection of
original paintings, sculptures, engravings, woodwork, and fine jewelry
from professional local artists as well as nationally acclaimed artists.
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Park City Mountain Resort
City Mountain Resort is a ski resort in Park City, Utah. The resort has
been a major tourist attraction for skiers from all over the United
States, as well as a main employer for many of Park City's citizens.
Park City, as the resort is often called by locals, contains several
training courses for the U.S. Ski Team, including slalom and giant
slalom runs. During the 2002 Winter Olympics the resort hosted the
snowboarding events and the men's and women's alpine giant slalom
events.
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Deer Valley
Deer
Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range, located in Park
City, Utah. The resort, known for its upscale amenities, is consistently
ranked among the top ski resorts in North America. It is also one of the
world's few remaining ski resorts that prohibit snowboarding. Deer
Valley was a venue site during 2002 Winter Olympics, hosting the
freestyle moguls, aerial, and alpine slalom events. It also regularly
hosts competitions for the International Ski Federation.
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The Canyons
Canyons
Resort is one of three alpine ski resorts located in Park City, Utah.
With 19 chairlifts and over 4000 acres of skiable terrain, Canyons is
the largest ski resort in Utah.
The ski area opened as Park City West in 1968, a sister resort to the
nearby Park City Mountain Resort, opened five years earlier. It was
renamed ParkWest in 1975 after a change in ownership, and the name was
changed again in 1995 to Wolf Mountain for two seasons, then became "The
Canyons" in 1997.
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Kimball Art Center
This
non-profit organization celebrates the visual arts with gallery exhibits,
adult education programs, art workshops, and cultural seminars. While all
ages participate in most of the center's programs, adults benefit from
six-week adult education programs including courses on drawing, jewelry,
ceramics, and clay sculpting. Kids get creative during Fun Friday workshops,
where instructors teach a variety of specialty classes for youngsters. Bring
your children here for a fun learning experience
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Park City Museum
Learn
about mining history and Park City's colorful past at one of the nearby
museums. You can also learn about the history of skiing, see memorabilia
from the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and learn about area wildlife by
visiting sites listed below:
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Alpine Coaster
The
Alpine Slide at Park City Mountain Resort has become quite famous. It allows
normal people to experience a little of the spirit of the Olympic luge and
bobsled, rocketing you down a fixed track of banked turns and exciting
straight-aways.
The Alpine Slide is one of the longest slides in the world, with over 3,000
feet of track.
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Union Pacific Rail Trail
The
Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail is a 28-mile non-motorized trail. One end
of the trail begins in Park City and follows Interstate 80 through Wanship
and Coalville to Echo Reservoir, the other end of the trail. Activities
include hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, jogging, Nordic skiing
and wildlife watching. The Rail Trail is managed by the Mountain Trails
Foundation.
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The Egyptian Theatre
Originally
designed to accommodate 400 patrons, Park City's historic Egyptian Theatre
is a replica of Warner's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif., and was
built in 1926 as a venue for traveling vaudeville shows. It has also been a
saloon, a movie theater and a live theater venue. Designated a historic
building in 1984, the theater underwent a $1.5 million renovation in 1998
and remains one of only two Egyptian-revival buildings in Utah--the other is
the Egyptian Theatre in Ogden.
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Downtown Park City
Home
to quaint shops, fine dining establishments, art galleries, bars and live music
venues and of course...it's just a short walk to the Park City Mountain Resort.
Additional storefronts showcase Park City's eclectic nature holding everything
from hardware to sportswear, handcrafted furniture to designer boutiques.
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