Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range, located 36 miles (58 km) east of Salt Lake City, in Park City, Utah, United States. This resort, known for its luxurious amenities, is consistently upgraded among the best ski resorts in North America.
The Deer Valley was the venue for the 2002 Winter Olympics, hosting freestyle mogul, aerial, and alpine slalom events. It also regularly organizes competitions for the International Ski Federation.
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With a number of other large ski resorts nearby, Deer Valley competes by serving a more luxurious audience than its neighbors, offering amenities like free valet skiing, free parking transport, sumptuous dining and boutique shopping at the main lodge. Stein Eriksen, the namesake of Stein Eriksen Lodge, is the host of a mountain inn property and resort's ski director until his death in 2015.
Deer Valley uses more maintenance equipment than other Wasatch ski areas, and limits access to avoid overcrowding; the resort limits ticket sales to 7,500 per day. The total capacity of Deer Valley hill lift of 50,470 skiers per hour is about 50% higher than the capacity of each of the larger neighbors, Park City Mountain Resort and former Canyons Resort (now joined by PCMR). Deer Valley has 21 chairs, including 12 removable high-speed quads and a closed 4-seater gondola.
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History
Mountain development
Skiing begins in the Deer Valley with the 1930s City Park Winter Carnival, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the first ski runs and other facilities during the winter of 1936-1937. The ski lifts first appeared in 1946, when locals Robert Emmett Burns, Sr. and Otto Carpenter built it, mostly from lodgepole pine nearby. The ski area is called the Snow Park Ski Area , a name that survived from 1946 to 1969. In 1981 Edgar Stern founded Deer Valley Resort in the same area and above. It has grown to include six mountains with six bowls, 930 hectares (380Ã, ha) of glade skiing and 670 acres (270Ã, ha) of snowmaking. The resort has a total of 2,026 hectares (820 hectares).
Expansion and upgrade
Deer Valley opened in 1981 at Bald Eagle and Bald Mountains, with five lifts built by Lift Engineering, also known as Yan: the Burns double (which is the only original lift left on the mountain), and Carpenter, Homestake, Sultan , and Fold three chairs. Elevator Sterling was added in 1982, followed by Clipper in 1983. The first major field expansion came in 1984 with the addition of a Mayflower lift at Bald Mountain.
In 1991, Deer Valley's first high-speed quad, Carpenter Express, was installed at Bald Eagle Mountain. In the same year, the resort expanded to Flagstaff Mountain with Red Cloud and Viking elevators. This area adds a new medium and advanced mogul run. Crown Point Lifts are also under construction. Further expansion took place in 1993 with the addition of the Northside Express lift, with a popular midfield. The double starter snowflake is also built this year. All the new Deer Valley lifts built since 1993 have been built by Doppelmayr CTEC and its predecessor from Salt Lake City.
In 1996, Carpenter Express and Wasatch lifts were replaced by two new high-speed quad Garaventa CTEC. The old Triple Wasatch was moved to create the Quincy lift in 1997. Also in 1997, the quad fixed Deer Crest was built, though it did not open until the following year.
For the 1998-99 season, Deer Valley underwent a major expansion, adding two more mountains. At Little Baldy Peak, the Deer Crest and Jordanelle Express Gondola lifts are opened with 8 lanes: 2 green, 3 blue, and 3 black. At Empire Canyon, a proposed long expansion includes a high-speed quad Empire Express and a Ruby fixed quad. The Empire region adds advanced and expert fields, including 2 blue trajectories, 4 black tracks, and three expert skill fields.
Deer Valley built many new elevators on the terrain that existed in the early 2000s. In 1999, Triple Homestake was replaced by a fixed grip quad, and an old triple was transferred to the Empire Canyon the following year to become Little Chief (which itself was issued in 2009). In 2000, Silver Lake Express replaced the triple Clipper to provide a direct connection between Snow Park's cottage garden and Silver Lake hut in the middle of the mountain. Quincy and Ruby were replaced by high speed quads in 2001 and 2002, respectively. In 2004, the Silver Strike Express and Judge lifts were built on Flagstaff Mountain. Sultan Express replaced the original Sultan's lift in 2005. Sterling was upgraded and extended in 2006.
In 2007, Lady Morgan's expansion added Deer Valley's sixth mountain. The peak has 9 paths: 5 green, 1 blue, and 3 black, along with a large area known as Centennial. The chair of the Lady Morgan Express can be accessed from Flagstaff Mountain and the Empire Canyon. The elevator extends the Deer Valley ski area and adds 200 acres of skiing. The vertical rise of the elevator is 1,150Ã, ft (350 m)
Deer Crest's hanging chair was upgraded from a fixed handle to a high speed quad and renamed The Mountaineer Express in 2012.
On October 3, 2014, Deer Valley Resort announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase Solitude Mountain Resort and take over operations on May 1, 2015.
In August 2017, the Deer Valley was sold to a newly formed multi-resort entity, Alterra Mountain Company, a joint venture made up of KSL Capital Partners and Intrawest Resort Holdings, LLC.
Evolution of guest services
Deer Valley is one of the first resorts to offer valet ski to bring guest ski equipment, free parking, and state licensed childcare facilities, and to the uniform of all its employees. It also provides a network in the elevator line, refers to the customer as a "guest", and provides a free overnight ski skiing service.
International competition
2002 Winter Olympics
During the 2002 game, the Deer Valley entertained moguls and freestyle antennas, and the alphine boy and daughter slalom show. Three of the resort resorts are used during the game including Champion (freestyle mogul site), Know You Do not (alpine slalom site), and White Owl (freestyle aerial site). The temporary audience stadium is located at the end of each run, they are 12 stories high and include seating for 10,000 people, while the audience standing area is located along each side of the path; a standing area and a combined stadium allow about 13,300 spectators to view each event. 99.4 percent of the tickets available for the event at the venue were sold, totaling 96,980 spectators watching the competition at the resort. During the game, 95 percent of the Deer Valley remains open to the public for normal seasonal operations.
World Cup events
The resort hosts the 2003 FIS and Freestyle Ski World Championships in 2011, becoming the first American place to host twice.
Deer Valley is a regular host for the World Cup event, having hosted men and women as well as annual air competitions since 2000 (with the exception of 2003 and 2004). The resort also hosts skicros in 2008, and is scheduled to host World Cup events annually until 2019. Deer Valley's track record has made it described as "Mecca for free-style skiing".
Awards
Deer Valley was ranked first overall in a 2017 magazine resort resort survey SKI . Since 1998, the resort has always ranked in the top three and was ranked first for five consecutive years between 2007 and 2011. In the history of the survey, no other resorts have been ranked first for more than three consecutive years. In the 2017 survey, the resort received first place ranking in the care, service, lodging and hospitality categories of children. In addition, the Deer Valley has received top 10 rankings in the snow category, elevators, weather, instant skiing, outdoor activities, access, feeding, food on the mountain, and overall satisfaction.
At the inaugural World Ski Awards, the Deer Valley won the award for the best ski resort in the United States for 2013. The resort continues to be ranked first for 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Deer Valley's Mariposa in Silver Lake has been rated # 1 restaurant in Utah by Zagat Restaurant Guide .
Snowboard ban
Deer Valley is one of three American ski resorts banning snowboarders alongside Alta and Mad River Glen. The resort is sometimes subjected to protest and hunting by snowboarders such as when snowboarder Burton Snowboards offered $ 5,000 for video footage of snowboarding riders in Alta, Deer Valley or the Gila Glen River in late 2007. According to Burton's website, a point of their campaign is that such discrimination implies a "glaringly aggressive indifference" to the US Constitution.
Park City Mountain Resort, adjacent to Deer Valley, allows snowboarding and also offers terrain and half-pipe parks.
Climate and terrain
This climate area is characterized by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm summers to hot (and often humid) and winter (sometimes very cold). According to the KÃÆ'¶ppen Climate Classification system, Deer Valley has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on the climate map.
Aspect Medan: North 45%, South 2%, East 45%, West 8%.
References
External links
- Deer Valley - Official website
- Deer Valley - A brief history
- Park City Guide - Resort Info, lodging options, and real estate
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