Deer Valley
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| Deer Valley | |
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| Location: | |
| Nearest city: | Park City, Utah |
| Vertical: | 3000 ft (914 m) |
| Top elevation: | 9570 ft (2917 m) |
| Base elevation: | 6570 ft (2003 m) |
| Skiable area: | 2,026 acres (8.20 km²) |
| Runs: | 99 |
| Longest run: | 2.8 miles (4.5 km) |
| Lift system: | 22 (1 Gondola, 11 High-speed quad chairlifts, 2 Fixed-grip quad chairlifts, 6 Triple chairlifts, 2 Double chairlifts) |
| Lift capacity: | 46,500 skiers/hr |
| Terrain parks: | Yes |
| Snowmaking: | over 560 acres (2.3 km²) |
| Web site: | Official Site |
Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range in the Park City area of northern Utah. Deer Valley is for skiers only, as it prohibits snowboarding. During the 2002 Winter Olympics Deer Valley hosted the freestyle moguls and aerial, and alpine slalom events. USAToday reported that more than 20,000 SKI magazine subscribers declared the resort the best North American resort in 2005.[1]
With a number of other large ski resorts nearby, Deer Valley competes by catering to a more upscale audience than its neighbors, offering skiers' amenities such as valet parking, fine dining and boutique shopping in the main lodge. Deer Valley limits the number of tickets sold each day to avoid overcrowding, and uses more grooming equipment than other Wasatch ski areas.
Deer Valley has 22 chair lifts including 11 high speed detachable quads.
Deer Valley is one of the few remaining ski resorts in the world that prohibits snowboarders. The resort has for many years been the subject of protest action by snowboarders, and is currently the target of a campaign by a group who claim in their manifesto that discriminating against them is a blatant disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America. [2]
It is the home of the world-renowned Stein Eriksen Lodge. Mr. Eriksen also serves as director of skiing at the resort.
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[edit] History
[edit] Mountain delelopment
Skiing began at Deer Valley with the Park City Winter Carivals of the 1930s. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built ski trails and other facilities during the winter of 1936-1937. The first ski lifts appeared in 1946, when local residents Bob Burns and Otto Carpenter built lifts, largely from lodgepole pines from the mountainside. Deer Valley Resort opened in 1981 on the former site of this "Snow Park" ski area, which had operated from 1946 to 1969. The resort has grown to include 6 mountains with 6 bowls, 800 acres (3.2 km²) of glade skiing and 500 acres (2.0 km²) of snowmaking.
[edit] Evolution of guest services
Deer Valley was one of the first resorts to offer ski valets to carry guests' ski gear, free parking-lot shuttles, and a state-licensed child-care facility, and to uniform all its employees. It also provides tissues in the lift lines, refers to customers as “guests”,and provides complimentary overnight ski check services.
[edit] 2002 Olympic Winter Games
Deer Valley hosted the 2002 Olympic Winter Games freestyle moguls, aerial, and alpine slalom events. Deer Valley's Olympic stadium was 12 stories tall with seating for 10,000 guests.
[edit] Awards
On September 10, 2007, SKI Magazine in its annual "Top 50 Resort Guide" named Deer Valley the top ski resort of North America; it also got other honors in Customer service, grooming, and dining. Other Utah resorts that were No. 1 in various categories included Snowbird, voted "Best Skier's Mountain," and Alta, top "Weekend Escape." Colorado had 6 resorts in the top 10, while Vail was No. 2, followed by Whistler Blackcomb, in British Columbia, Canada, 3rd; Aspen and Snowmass, both in Colorado; Park City, Utah; Breckenridge, Beaver Creek and Steamboat, Colorado, and Sun Valley, Idaho., 10th. Smuggler's Notch was top resort in the "Family Ski Trip" category.[1]
[edit] New For 2007-2008 Season
In the 2007-2008 season, Lady Morgan, will become the sixth mountain at Deer Valley. It will be accessible from the Lady Morgan Express Chairlift. The new peak will have 7 runs: 3 green, 1 blue, and 3 black. Also, 2 new trails will be added linking the Northside Express lift with the Lady Morgan lift. This new lift expands Deer Valley's tree skiing terrain and adds 200 skiable acres to the resort. Vertical rise of the new lift is 1,150 ft (350 m)
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