Park City

Deer Valley Heaven for Skiiers

Imagine a ski resort where you are greeted by friendly staff and asked if you they can assist you with your skis each morning? 

Imagine being able to drop your skis in at the end of the day and collect them each morning free of charge? 

Imagine great food, no lift lines, a variety of terrain and no snow boarders in sight? 

If you want to ski in a board free zone, with great facilities, conditions, terrain, and exceptional service, go to Deer Valley. 

Snowflower condos are ok, probably represent good value for money and convenient if you''re skiing Park City, but only a short drive to Deer Valley (easy parking there).

Utah 2012

The Park City area is a terrific place to ski with Deer Valley being the pick of the crop.

Fantastic array of terrain with good infrastructure. Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) is a good mountain as well and Canyons is also worth a ski. Snowbird is an intimidating mountain with some fantastic off piste terrain and is really only for advanced skiers.

Eating out in PC was a bit ''hit and miss''. The best meals we had were at the Mexican restaurant at PCMR and the meals we cooked ourselves. PC was a great location, only 30 mins from Salt Lake City airport.

Having to pay $30 for each piece of luggage for flights within the US was annoying.

Deer Valley would have to be in the top 3 of all the places that we have skied in the world and we look forward to returning when there is a bit more powder on the ground and possibly bringing a bigger group.  You should note that Deer Valley does not allow snowboarders and limits the number of tickets it sells each day to keep the crowds down.

Park City Mountain Resort

Prior to our trip I was quite excited about skiing Park City - after 2 days I was rather disappointed. Our main concerns; 1) badly laid out lifts, 2) poor service, 3) too many boarders, 4) average terrain.  Many of the so called black runs would have been blues runs at many other US resorts.  The exception here is the terrain off Jupiter which was excellent.  The constant ticket scanning at the lower lifts also gets extremely tiresome (especially when many of the lifties seem to resent you interupting their conversations to get your ticket scanned).  There is no comparison between PCMR and Deer Valley - but both have the same day ticket price.  Do yourself a favour go to Deer Valley. Would we go back to PCMR - Not likely