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There are more than 25,000 skiable acres open to skiers within a one-hour drive from the Salt Lake City International Airport.
In less than six hours, skies can put track down on six world-class resorts through Ski Utah's Interconnect Adventure Tour Deer Valley, Park City Mountain Resort, Solitude, Brighton, Alta and Snowbird.
In less than 10 hours, with proper planning, a skiers can ski 11 of Utah's 13 resorts. It's been done.
In the span of two days, a skiers can buy and use up passes at three of the country's highest rated resorts Deer Valley, which has been ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the country by SKI Magazine for the past several years, and Alta/Snowbird, which has been ranked No. 1 for five straight years by SKIING Magazine.
Plotted on a map, there are seven resorts Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton, The Canyons, Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort within a 38-mile radius of the airport.
Those seven and four more Snowbasin, Sundance, Powder Mountain and Wolf Mountain are within a 60-mile circle of the airport.
All in all, it's not hard getting to what is constantly rated as the Greatest Snow on Earth.
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