Deer Valley's Plans for Snow Park Base

Posted by Kerri Whipple on Friday, March 29th, 2024 at 3:34pm.

Deer Valley Resorts vision for the Snow Park base involves a new ski beach with a gondola to Silver Lake, surrounded by hotels, restaurants, commercial space and an event center.

The resort still needs approval from Park City before construction can begin.

At an open house Tuesday, Deer Valley Vice President of Resort Planning Hannah Tyler said they want to break ground on the project by spring 2025.

Tyler also shared the recent changes including two new roundabouts to help with traffic flow.

“One is at the intersection of Doe Pass Road and Deer Valley Drive,” Tyler said. “The other is at the intersection of Royal Street… We tried not to do stop signs. We have roundabouts in town, people love it or hate it, but it does keep people moving… And if you’re coming out of Royal Street, you’ll be able to take a right and go right to drop-off which is something we heard loud and clear from the upper Deer Valley neighbors.”

Deer Valley President and CEO Todd Bennett said the biggest change is moving the proposed transit center and drop-off area closer to the base.

“We heard from a lot of folks it’s really important where the drop off occurs today, ‘We like the drop-off where it is,’” Bennett said. “So we’re going to put drop-off directly below the ski beach there, and we’re going to separate it so that transit that’s coming in is on a different level than the car and the auto drop-off.”

Bennett said escalators would move skiers up to the Carpenter lift and Silver Lake gondola, which would also connect to Deer Valley’s new East Village base in Wasatch County.

There will be a separate drop-off near the base specifically for ski school and daycare.

Tyler said the resort has also added more pedestrian crossings and connections to reduce conflicts with cars.

See some of the plans below:

Via @kpcwradio

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