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Alta / Snowbird It is part of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, Alta is known for its powder skiing and its decision to not allow snowboarding. Snowbird is known for alpine skiing and snowboarding area..

Bryce Canyon National Park

Canyon Point 25 MILES FROM Page, AZ Located in the Four Corners region-where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet. Surrounded by soaring plateaus of sculpted sandstone and desert wilderness with panoramic views of the dramatic sand-colored landscape

Garden City On the shores of Bear Lake and is a popular summer resort destination town, thus is nicknamed the "Caribbean of the Rockies."

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Park City

The Canyons "Largest Resort in Utah!" one of three alpine ski resorts located in Park City, In 2015, Park City Ski Resort and Canyons resorts merged

Deer Valley #1 resort in North America in 2001 Deer Valley, home to the Olympic Mogul competition on the run "Know You Don't", is widely known as the upper crust of the three Park City-area resorts. What many people don't know is that Deer Valley has established many standards in the ski resort industry that simply didn't exist when the resort opened in 1981. Owners Edgar and Polly Stern had come from a background in the luxury hotel and real estate business, and saw a brand new opportunity to apply hospitality industry standards to a ski resort.

As a result, Deer Valley has established a list of "firsts" in the industry that most skiers take for granted at any major resort these days. They run the gamut from beautiful lodges in the National Park building style to free parking lot shuttles and tissue boxes in the lift lines. Deer Valley was also the first resort to have a state-licensed child care facility on-site, and the first to offer truly fine dining. Impeccable service has also been a Deer Valley tradition from the start, as the area was the first to uniform all of its employees, and the first to offer ski valets and complimentary overnight ski storage.

Deer Valley is a perennial contender in the magazine rankings in the categories of food and service, and most often appears in the Top 5 overall in North America. But you don't get to be ranked in the Top 5 for service alone. You need great skiing, and Deer Valley is renowned for both its precise grooming, and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, its excellent and uncrowded tree skiing. Rumors abound of untracked snow left in the trees at Deer Valley for days or longer after a storm.

The Stein Eriksen Lodge is one of the premier lodging and dining facilities in ski country, and the only AAA Five-Diamond resort in Utah. The resort is named for the legendary Norwegian who won the first Olympic Giant Slalom event—by more than two seconds—in Oslo in 1952. Stein now serves as Director of Skiing for Deer Valley.

Of course, you'll definitely want to spend time exploring downtown Park City for more dining and entertainment options.

One more thing you should know: when you go to Deer Valley leave your snowboard at home-it is one of four resorts remaining in North America that do not allow boarding.

East Village, a massive expansion area of more than 3,000 acres that will more than double Deer Valley's skiable terrain and make it the fourth-largest ski area in the U.S.

Midway 28 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, known for the large "hot-pot" or geo-thermal caldera There is year-round scuba diving in the caldera's 90-95 degree water. The Homestead is also the site of an 18-hole golf course

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Solitude / Brighton Located in Big Cottonwood Canyon, 30 miles from the Salt Lake City International Airport and only 12 short miles from the edge of Salt Lake City, Solitude is the epitome of an easy access mountain retreat.

Sundance The mountains around you are reminiscent of the Canadian Rockies. The powder is unmistakably Utah. Yet there are no crowds, no industrial concrete structures, and no faux Alpine village. In fact there's not much development at all. And, Robert Redford just skied into the lift line and yelled "single".

Sound like some kind of strange dream?

The place was, at one time, only a dream. But with unwavering commitment from Redford, its founder -- who bought the area in 1969 partly to save it from a developer's bulldozer -- Sundance Resort has become a unique and well-loved resort, and, in the process, a dream realized.

Located on 6,000 private acres in the shadow of Mt. Timpanogos, the highest point in Utah's Wasatch Range, the resort offers 465 acres of skiing terrain. Though it seems obvious to assume the name came from Redford's famous 1969 role as the Sundance Kid, the resort's name, he says, evokes the way the sunlight dances off the Wasatch peaks.

Development at Sundance, (or the lack thereof), is guided by Redford's own philosophy, one that clearly favors the natural environment and understated elegance over all things crass and high-tech. While Sundance appeared to be falling irreversibly behind its competition during the capital improvements-frenzy of the 80's and 90's, the resort now finds itself filling a singular niche. In addition, its focus on the arts has expanded into a small empire of cultured enterprises, including the Sundance Institute, founded in 1980 to encourage independent filmmaking; the legendary Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City each January; Sundance Farms; a thriving summer theater program; and the upscale and eco-friendly Sundance Catalogue.

But skiing is still central to Sundance, and you can experience it here in rare solitude. 60,000 skier days is a strong season for the resort, while as Ski Magazine points out, "the Vail Valley racks up more business on President's Day weekend alone." One fixed-grip quad and two triple lifts serve the resort's 2,150 feet of vertical. There is plenty of challenge, and one recent visitor from Southern California found "no one there - no lines… just fabulous skiing."

As an increasing number of skiers decry the corporatization of the modern ski resort experience, Sundance offers a respite - an elegant oasis where size does not matter, and where the arts, the environment, and of course the skiing, are more important than fast lifts and palatial homes.

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