Skiing in Utah

Aside from booking your rental car in advance, I would spend some time looking online for hotels with "stay and ski" packages. The lift ticket is free or heavily discounted with a nights stay at hotels.

Park city resorts have a deal where you can ski free on the day you arrive by air. You need to fill out an online form at the PC chamber of Commerce site beforehand. Works well if you get into SLC befor 10am. You can be skiing for free by lunchtime.

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bennyboy wrote: Cincinatti

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Great traveling advice! I would love to get out there this year. Are they pretty fair on their lift costs?

What is your ability level? Do you want apres ski?

I have been skiing at Alta and Snowbird for the last thirty years and consider them the best for steep and powder, but there is zero apres ski, which is a negative for most. Snow Basin and Powder Mountain are also great powder skiing without much apres ski and are a longer trip from the airport. I also like Brighton and Solitude in Big Cottonwood Canyon, especially if your group includes a range of abilities. Park City Canyons and Deer Valley are better for after ski, but less good if you like steep and powder. All Utah areas have excellent grooming, wide corduroy runs for the early park of the day. Have fun.

We're going to Deer Valley Ski Resort in Park City, Utah in the middle of March. My friend said her brother says it's a great place for intermediate to advance skiers. I've skied Alta and it's only about 30 minutes from the airport in Salt lake so the drive isn't bad. It's a pretty good place for advance skiing but they don't allow snowboards so it's sort of a bummer.

I'm checking it out. We want snow and since my friend lives in Salt Lake our trip will be Utah this year.

I'm from San Francisco so South Shore is where I spent my winter months working at Harrahs and spending all my money on Heavenly.

I'm looking for suggestions for Utah skiing as well near Salt Lake.

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I'm interested in hearing from those who've been to Deer Valley. It looks like a great resort.

The site linked to the last post is not very informative. It does look a lot like SPAM though. Perhaps hotskier101 could take a slightly wider approach for an unbiased opinion, a Google search perhaps?

Welcome to J2ski :D

Thanks Bandit. I'm just trying to get some additional info. From someone who's actually been to Deer Valley. Hear say and google and the websites is all I've got. If you been there maybe you can shed some light.

If you've got first hand news great!

Thanks in Advance

Not skied Deer Valley sorry. Not much detail on J2ski, but a quick Google got me this, which may help you. Seems quite a comprehensive write up.

http://www.ultimate-ski.com/Ski-Resorts/United_States/Deer_Valley,_UT/index.html