![]() Vail Resorts has added new high-speed chairlifts and other amenities since buying Park City Resort in 2014 (Photo Courtesy of Vail Resorts) purchased Park City Mountain Resort for $182 million, making a big commitment towards upgrading facilities and improving the skier experience, including connecting Park City Mountain Resort with Canyons Resort by Gondola to create what is now America’s largest ski resort. Park City and Deer Valley are perhaps the best known, as they played host to the 2002 Winter Olympics and 31 consecutive Sundance Film Festivals, and boast some of the West’s best skiing, accommodations and nightlife. The air here is drier than the Colorado Rockies, so the snow tends to be fluffier and less prone to freezing into treacherous ice patches at Utah resorts. Utah’s resorts are famously known for their “perfect” skiing days. Sundance’s mountaintop eatery, Bearclaw Lodge, features a special menu prepared by the resort’s executive chef, and can only be accessed by a lift ride to the top of the mountain, which affords stunning views of the Wasatch Range and nearly all of the 10 ski resorts that lie within an hour of the Salt Lake International Airport. There are two exceptional restaurants on the property, The Tree Room and Foundry Grill, which feature sustainable dining with local organic produce, meats and fish, and both dining rooms are accented by Robert Redford’s private collection of Native American Art, with a roaring fireplace in winter. Thrillseekers can ride side-by-side on the zip line’s double cables and control their speed, cruising up to 65 miles per hour or stopping for breathtaking views of Mount Timpanogos.Ī Nordic Center offers equipment for cross country skiing or snowshoeing, or rods for fly-fishing Provo River’s abundant supply of Rainbow, Cutthroat and German Brown Trout. The resort’s new ZipTour boasts 2,100 feet of vertical drop – the most of any zip line tour in the United States. If you crave both the quietude and adventure of nature, there is no shortage of either here, from Alpine skiing and snowboarding on 45 snow-drenched runs, to pottery and wellness classes, fly fishing and zip lining. ![]() Wifi is complimentary, and please don’t tip the bell staff lodging gratuity is included. Some of the units have 52” Apple TVs, and if you need to check out a DVD, Redford’s entire filmography is available from Reception. ![]() “I like it just the way it is,” he says softly.Īn early morning skier at Sundance Mountain Resort gets the best powder of the day (Photo Courtesy Sundance Mountain Resort) The lodge, two small restaurants and general store have barely expanded since built, and Redford has vetoed any other progress along the way for his destination resort, such as brand hotels, chain restaurants or sky-rise condos at the mountain’s base. Redford and his German-born wife Sibylle live in a rustic home alongside the slopes, so there’s little that happens here that doesn’t escape his eye. “Bob is now skiing better, more elegantly, more smoothly than he’s ever skied at any other time of his life,” Warren remarks, as the acclaimed actor rolls his rugged hands over the edges of his new skis. When he’s not making movies or promoting the spirit of independent film at the Sundance Film Festival, which he created, Redford can be found here, skiing the 450 acres of skiable terrain with Warren or other buddies. “We decided to offer something really special and homegrown, in the form of art and culture, spirit and service.” ![]() “Our pledge to the area was really a pledge to the people,” he told Washington Life, as he sat in in the cramped office of Sundance Mountain Ski Director and longtime friend, Jerry Warren. He began upgrading the resort in the mid-80s, once he’d hit his stride as an iconic film legend. Redford purchased the 5,000-acre property deep in the heart of Utah’s Wasatch Mountain Range in 1969, his breakout year as an actor when he starred with Paul Newman in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” Money was tight back then for the Broadway actor just breaking onto the silver screen, so Redford had to get a loan from the local bank. “To me Sundance is and always will be a dream…The sights, the smells, the taste and feel of this place is a dream that we’ve carefully nurtured and worked hard to protect.” “Wonderful, just wonderful,” Redford exclaims, as he eyes the crowds lining up for the chair lift, before entering the ski school yurt to check out new Rossignol demos which he’ll use to ski down the mountain later. “The sights, the smells, the taste and feel of this place is a dream that we’ve carefully nurtured and worked hard to protect.” (Photo Courtesy of Sundance) “To me Sundance is and always will be a dream,” says Robert Redford. ![]()
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