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Star locale: Celebrities call Park City and Deer Valley home
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"Without a doubt, snowboarding has helped my MS," Williams told USA Today a couple of years ago.
Being on a snowboard forces him to be aware of his feet in space and time, and he believes that his brain is "in the process of rewiring around those areas of MS damage."
"When I snowboard for four or five days, I don't even have to think about walking," he said. "It becomes just as natural as it can be."
While scores of movie stars, entertainers and athletes pop up in town, especially during the annual Sundance Film Festival, not many live or have vacation homes on exclusive streets like Stein Way and Bald Eagle Drive. Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg kept a vacation home in Deer Valley where the Clinton family vacationed a couple of times, but his name did not come up on current property tax records.
Corporate bigwigs, high-powered lawyers and accomplished doctors own most of the posh mountain digs. Though renowned in their fields, they are not household names.
But there are other recognizable people, some whose stars shine today and some whose luster has faded over the years.
Former Salt Lake Olympics boss and potential Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, currently the governor of Massachusetts, owns a $5.2 million "cabin" on the perhaps appropriately named Rising Star Lane.
Doctors apparently have an affinity for Park City. A couple of the more well known are Art Ulene and Eric Heiden.
Ulene, a longtime contributor to "Today" on NBC, splits time between Los Angeles and Park City. He is an advanced skier, an avid motorcyclist and a beginning snowboarder. His nationally syndicated health segments are seen on local television news programs around the country.
Heiden pulled off one of the greatest feats in Olympic history, winning five gold medals in speedskating at the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid. He accounted for all but one of the United States' gold medals that year. An orthopedic surgeon, he recently moved his practice to Utah to become the medical director at The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital in Murray.
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