Park City

[JohnnyM]

Won a trip, going next weekend (Mar 9-12). What do I need to do, where do we need to eat, etc.

I can't ski right now b/c of a leg issue, but any advice on that will be helpful to the gf.

Thanks.

 

[iamtigerwoods]

Definitely start by going to the Wasatch Brewery on Main Street and fetching a growler of the Hefeweisen. While there, you can drive up and down Main and get a feel for the restaurats/bars/etc. Foodwise, there is not a bad restaurant on the street.

Skiing-wise, it just depends on what you are into. Deer Valley is awesome for its service and grooming. Canyons is the biggest, but furthest from Main Street. Park City Mountain is large as well and you can catch the lift in town.

 

[Pepper Brooks]

I go spend about 10 days there per year and am heading out again this Thursday. I will say ski at Deer Valley to see it. Have lunch at the Stein Erickson buffet, and have a hot buttered rum upstairs in the Apres ski lounge. Then ski the Cayons the rest of the time. It is an enormous mountain and so poorly laid out that you can always find huge stashes of untracked poweder particularly on the far east side of the mountain. If you are a great skier head up 9990 lift and check that out. IN the afternoon head over to the west side and ski devils friend, thrasher, super fury, etc. Lots of simply great terrain over there. Park City mountain is a clear cut below the other two in terrain, on mountain food is horrible at best, too many snowboarders, and by far the least desireable of the bunch by a long margin IMO.

Food wise make a reservation now for Chimayo for fantastic southwestern food like grilled buffalo flank steak in a chile sauce, london broil of elk, encho chili rubbed rib eye, and margaritas. Other fine dining would be Grappa for very upscale Italian, Whaso for upscale Asian. Lower end type things are Bandits BBQ which has pretty decent ribs and 20 oz beers. There is a Prime Steakhouse that is awesome. Windy Ridge cafe is another very good lunch type place in Prospector Square. Also in PS is Blind Dog which is a cool restaurant that now flies in fresh sushi each day. Bachuus Wine Bar is a cool place, but hard to find. It is on Main Street, but located below street level. Ask for help finding it.

Also if you have an extra day to ski instead of hitting Park City MOuntain it would be well worth your while to go hit Alta/Snowbird (one lif tticket for 2 mountains) as I think they provide the most incredible terrain in the US. They get more snow, it is generally less crowded, and is all about skiing. Amenities are pretty pedestrian, but damn if that skiing is not just insanely good. If you like bowl skiing Snowbird man is simply unreal.

 

[triplehorn]

I'm flying into SLC this Sunday morning and will be on the slopes at Park City that afternoon and ski all next week. I'm going with some friends from grad school for the second consecutive year -no wives and no gf's. We started skiing together at Taos in the 90's when we were overworked and poor. Last year we skied PC, Deer Valley, Alta, and Snowbird. This year will be the similar but we might shoot for Powder Mountain (shhhhh) as well.

We ate in SLC more than PC only because it's so freakin convenient.

The resorts in Utah have had 4-7' feet of snow in the last few weeks with more than 50" in the last 7 days. f'nA !


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[smwhorn]

The lovely wife, kids and I leave Thursday evening to go for a week. We are pumped.

 

[JohnnyM]

well **** since everyone is going to be there where are we watching the basketball games on Saturday (hopefully) and Sunday (hopefully)?

 

[Pepper Brooks]

There is a place at the bottom of Main Street - near the Town Lift called JB Mulligans. It is a great place to watch games and drink beers.

 

[iamtigerwoods]

Second Mulligans. Watched many a tournament games there, as we always tend to ski during the first week of the tourney.

 

[triplehorn]

Just got back this afternoon and had a great trip. Butcher's chop house in Park City is one place we ate at worth mentioning. We made reservations for dinner in the bar which I'd recommend if its a group of grown-ups. We had a full kitchen where we were and cooked several of our meals. That worked out so well that the others suggested making a pre-organized menu for next year. We stayed in a new 3/3 condo in the Redstone development just outside of PC. It was ideal for us because we knew we would be driving to other resorts in different canyons so the convenience was particularly good with Main Street Park City less than 10min away. Redstone has a lot of shops and restaurants in its own right. I bet it balloons.

Skied the first half-day at Canyons, then full days at Snowbird, Park City, and Solitude. Good thing it dumped for a couple weeks before we got there because a massive high pressure system sat on the region for most of the week - warm temps and tons of sunshine. But Wednesday night it snowed and after checking the Th morning snow reports, we went with Solitude. Had to have been 10" of fresh up top all said before the sun came out late morning. One of the best days I can recall having. Fresh tracks up top and in the trees lasted all day because nobody else was there.


here's a pic from near the top of Honeycomb canyon at Solitude I took yesterday:

and a pic taken at dawn from the condo in Redstone. We watched a coyote hunt for critters beyond the other side of the water for a long time early one morning.

 

[Vince4Heisman]

I am heading out tomorrow..cant wait..weather looks awesome...lows in the 30's and highs in the 50's

 

[austintexas]

What are the nicest resorts in Park City? May be planning a trip.

 

[iamtigerwoods]

Most anything in the Deer Valley area would be considered the nicest. Stein Erikson is excellent, but extremely pricey. Given the thought that most folks ski all 3 resorts while at Park City, it makes the most sense to look at renting a private home or condo. Plenty of choices in town..