Accessibility

Next to great snow conditions, accessibility is probably the next most appreciated advantage to skiing in Utah.

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.

The remaining two resorts, Beaver Mountain and Brian Head, are not much farther. Beaver is a two-hour drive to the north, and Brian Head is a 3 1/2-hour drive to the south.

All in all, it's not hard getting to what is constantly rated as the Greatest Snow on Earth.