About Park City Utah

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Park City is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Wasatch Back. The city is 32 miles  southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and 20 miles  from Salt Lake City’s east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80.  In normal years the tourist population greatly exceeds the number of permanent residents.

The city has two major ski resorts: Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort (combined with Canyons Village at Park City) and one minor resort: Woodward Park City (an action sports training and fun center).

The city is the main location of the United States’ largest independant film festival, the Sundance Film Festival;  It is also the home of the United States Ski Team; training center for members of the Australian Freestyle Ski Team; the largest collection of factory outlet stores in northern Utah. The 2002 Olympic bobsled/skeleton/luge track is located at the Utah Olympic Park; and also has a number of courses to choose from. Some scenes from the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber were shot in the city. Outdoor-oriented businesses such as backcountry.com, Rossignol USA, and Skullcandy also have their headquarters in Park City. The city has many shops, clubs, bars, and restaurants, to choose from and there are nearby reservoirs, hot springs and forests to visit with hiking and biking trails.

n the summertime, many valley residents of the Wasatch Front visit the town to escape high temperatures becasue Park City is usually cooler than Salt Lake City. This is becasus it lies mostly higher than 7,000 feet above sea level while Salt Lake City is situated at an elevation of about 4,300 feet.

In 2008, Park City was named by Forbes Traveler Magazine as one of the “20 prettiest towns” in the United States. In 2011, the town was awarded a Gold-level Ride Center designation from the International Mountain Bicycling Association for its mountain bike trails, amenities and community.