I was just curious if anyone knew where and what happened to the Summit Recreation Area in Park City, Utah. While looking at the 1980 lift installation survey, I noticed that there was a Hall double chair installed there. The lift had a length of 3113 ft. and a vertical of 1110 ft.
I presume the area no longer exists and I don't think it is the snow tubing place that Park City Mountain Resort owns just down the Interstate. It had two Hall doubles though.
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Summit Recreation Area in Park City, Utah
Started by SkiBachelor, May 28 2005 06:59 PM
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Posted 04 June 2005 - 09:33 AM
I believe this could be Gorgoza (the tubing place owned by PCMR) as no other Park City resort has been around for a long time and I believe before they turned Gorgoza into a sledding hill it had two chairlifts so my best guess would be that Cameron as no other Park City resort area was around at that time I don't think.
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Posted 09 June 2005 - 02:11 PM
I believe that the old Gorgoza chairs were just to the left of where the current Gorgoza Tubing hill is, though I have to point out the there is no way a chair could have 1110 ft of vertical in that area. An interesting article in the Deseret News notes that the vertical at the old Gorgoza Ski area (which actually had 2 chairs and a tbar) was 350 ft.
Perhaps the old ParkWest resort was using Summit Rec as a dba, I don't see many of their old lifts in the survey?
Perhaps the old ParkWest resort was using Summit Rec as a dba, I don't see many of their old lifts in the survey?
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 08:24 AM
Park West did have at least one Hall but I think it was older than 1980. I think I've got a trail map from 1992, I'll see if I can match up the dimensions. What about the ski jumps at Soldier Hollow? What do they have for a lift?
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 09:02 AM
Soldier Hollow is the cross-country venue down in Heber, there's no lifts there. The Utah Olympic Park has two CTEC doubles and a handle tow, if that's what you meant
http://www.skilifts....olympicpark.htm
http://www.skilifts....olympicpark.htm
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Posted 09 July 2005 - 12:11 AM
When I was a little kid, we'd go to my grandparents cabin east of Park City. Riding past there in the car I remember pretty well (I'm 28 now) that there were FOUR distinct "cable lifts" (specifics are a little vague). There were two chairs to the west (right) that went from the base to the edge of the trees. Both of these "shorter" lifts were doubles. The one on the west of the two was white and the one on the east was brown/rust red. Both were around 350' or so and as I said the top terminal ended at the bottom of the tree line (at the top of the tubing hill now). Both of these lifts served the area now used as the active tubing area. The white lift was the last lift to be removed and was gone in 1999 or 2000 (memory is somewhat vague).
There were two other lifts that served the more open, broad hill area that's to the east and isn't used for tubing (at least not yet). I'm pretty sure one was a chair and it's bottom drive terminal was essentially where the parking lot is now. It went to the top of the ridge line that is visible from Interstate 80. I remember it there in the early 80's and then it slowly was torn down/scraped over a year I think. The top terminal platform was perched out over the face of the ridge line just a tiny bit so if you knew there was a lift there you could spot it. The platform lasted a few years more but either was torn down or succumbed to the elements. Perhaps the data was entered wrong, because if it had even (for sake of a typo) 1110', that was pushing it. I'm more inclined to think 700' - 900'. But then again distances and size's can been deceiving when moving. Suffice it to say, this was the largest lift of this small resort.
The other (fourth) lift was on the far east (left) of the hill over some what in the bushes, starting about 1/4 of the way up the hill and ending about 3/4 of the way up the hill. I believe I remember this one to be a "T-bar" (or something along those lines(pun intended)) I think this was the second to last lift to be removed if my memory serves me correctly.
I also remember a "square-ish" building at the base that I guess was the lodge/warming hut/food stand. I also remember seeing one of the lift's counter weights and it seemed to me to be rather large for the size of lift (even if it was the largest one) but again I could be wrong. Seemed to look to be on par size wise as the earlier 50's style Riblet counterweights ("upside down squatty "T" shaped") Not to may years before the entire area was razed of all structures (1999 or 2000) there was also a business sign at the entrance. I think it read either "parley's park" or "parley's summit resort". It was in pretty rough shape even from my first recollections. The old Gorgoza resort (as my dad tells me) was many years before this and I don't know anything about it.
I'm pretty sure all the lifts had bottom drives.
If someone has a picture (even current) I could easily draw in where the lift lines were. If someone does, let me know and I'll do that. memory is good enough for that.
There were two other lifts that served the more open, broad hill area that's to the east and isn't used for tubing (at least not yet). I'm pretty sure one was a chair and it's bottom drive terminal was essentially where the parking lot is now. It went to the top of the ridge line that is visible from Interstate 80. I remember it there in the early 80's and then it slowly was torn down/scraped over a year I think. The top terminal platform was perched out over the face of the ridge line just a tiny bit so if you knew there was a lift there you could spot it. The platform lasted a few years more but either was torn down or succumbed to the elements. Perhaps the data was entered wrong, because if it had even (for sake of a typo) 1110', that was pushing it. I'm more inclined to think 700' - 900'. But then again distances and size's can been deceiving when moving. Suffice it to say, this was the largest lift of this small resort.
The other (fourth) lift was on the far east (left) of the hill over some what in the bushes, starting about 1/4 of the way up the hill and ending about 3/4 of the way up the hill. I believe I remember this one to be a "T-bar" (or something along those lines(pun intended)) I think this was the second to last lift to be removed if my memory serves me correctly.
I also remember a "square-ish" building at the base that I guess was the lodge/warming hut/food stand. I also remember seeing one of the lift's counter weights and it seemed to me to be rather large for the size of lift (even if it was the largest one) but again I could be wrong. Seemed to look to be on par size wise as the earlier 50's style Riblet counterweights ("upside down squatty "T" shaped") Not to may years before the entire area was razed of all structures (1999 or 2000) there was also a business sign at the entrance. I think it read either "parley's park" or "parley's summit resort". It was in pretty rough shape even from my first recollections. The old Gorgoza resort (as my dad tells me) was many years before this and I don't know anything about it.
I'm pretty sure all the lifts had bottom drives.
If someone has a picture (even current) I could easily draw in where the lift lines were. If someone does, let me know and I'll do that. memory is good enough for that.
This post has been edited by sd40t-2: 09 July 2005 - 12:20 AM
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