USA Park City Ski Holidays

Skiing in Park City

Park City has two centres: the traditional Main Street in the heart of PC and the more recent Resort Plaza, where the majority of the uplift is located. Dependent on where you stay you will no doubt start the day on the Town Lift or the Payday chair near the plaza.

Beginners will most likely master the art of loading and unloading from a chair lift on the aptly named First Timer lift. This can be a less than graceful learning process - without even mentioning the skiing - and it's nice to have a bit of privacy away from sniggering on-lookers. So thankfully PC have an enclave exclusively for beginners where the newly initiated can fumble, stumble and bumble in peace.

Further up on Mid-Mountain intermediates will find King Con Ridge - even those who generally like things a bit fruitier will enjoy this stash of trails. There are ten worthy blues that curve off the ridge like ribs; all re-group on the 'Broadway' cat-track that leads to the King Con Chair. By the time you have completed all ten you can guarantee that snow conditions will have changed and you may find your favourite trail that was groomed to perfection is now a mogul field - so you just have to start again! For a highly recommended pre-lunch blast, take the Pioneer lift, veer left at the top and swoop down onto 'Comstock' - so it's black.... but c'mon, they keep it pretty well groomed - just let yourself go! But don't miss the 'Mid-mountain Cut Off!' This will bring you right round to the Mid-Mountain Lodge for some hearty skier fayre.

A spectacular freebie for the advanced skiing fraternity is the Black Diamond Tour. This is a free guided tour leaves from the Resort Plaza every Tuesday and Saturday at 9.30am. Let the bad boys show where they play - up in the Jupiter Bowls. There's a lot of scary nonsense out there in the craggy chutes and the sheer bowls. These dudes might even have you hiking - working hard for your reward of extreme terror and adrenalin surges.