Deer Valley Planning Four-Stage Gondola System, Parking Revamp to Complement Enormous Expansion

Deer Valley’s large 182% terrain growth isn’t the one main venture on the resort’s horizon. The skier-only resort lately introduced a collaborative partnership with Park Metropolis Municipal to shift visitors away from the resort’s in style Snow Park base, with a number of elevate, parking, and base space impacts ensuing from the venture.

As a part of this venture, the resort plans to fully redesign its Snow Park base right into a pedestrian-oriented base village, with a number of new inns, eating places, and condos. Deer Valley intends to shrink the variety of Snow Park parking areas by roughly 10-15%, however to make up for this, the resort plans a brand new base portal on US 40—close to the underside of the present Jordanelle base—with a further 1,200 parking areas.

Maybe most significantly, to hyperlink the Snow Park base with this new parking portal, Deer Valley plans to implement a four-stage gondola system overlaying over 5 miles. Fairly than immediately transporting company between the 2 bases, this method will service a brand new higher mountain space—particularly, the proposed Park Peak growth—alongside the way in which. Two phases of this gondola route will run principally alongside already current terrain, connecting the Snow Park base with the highest of Park Peak; the opposite two phases will run from Park Peak to the brand new entry portal, involving a barely modified line for a 10-passenger gondola already proposed in Deer Valley’s August growth announcement. The system would comprise two separate two-stage gondolas, with the Park Peak summit offering the switch level.

This venture nonetheless must obtain full approval from the Park Metropolis Metropolis Council, however ought to it transfer ahead, the total suite of upgrades will seemingly take the remainder of the last decade, with the remainder of Deer Valley’s growth initiatives taking priority. Every part is anticipated to be finished by the 2034 Salt Lake Metropolis Winter Olympics.

The total suite of adjustments will be discovered right here.