Park City Mountain Resort

Number of lifts: 16 — 4 high-speed six passenger, 2 high-speed quad, 5 triple, 4 double, 1 kids carpet

Vertical drop: 3,100

Skiable acres: 3,300

Terrain: 17 percent beginners, 50 percent intermediate and 33 percent expert

Top elevation: 10,000 feet

Number of runs: 104

Snowboarding: Yes

Halfpipes: 1

Terrain parks: 4

Comment: It was in the winter of 1963 that Treasure Mountain Ski Area — Park City Mountain Resort's precursor — opened, boasting America's longest gondola, a double chairlift and two J-bar tows. The lifts served 18 miles of skiing terrain and transformed Park City from a silver mining town gone bust to the beginning of the premiere resort it is today.

Over the past 40 years, the resort has been building and improving.

One thing skiers like about Park City is that it offers a wide choice of areas to ski and terrain to challenge. It also offers variety in the type of sliding an individual chooses to do.

Powder Mountain

Number of lifts: 7 — 2 quad, 1 triple, 1 double, 3 surface

Vertical drop: 2,005 feet

Skiable acres: 2,800 (5,500 available)

Terrain: 10 percent beginner, 50 percent intermediate, 40 percent expert.

Top elevation: 8,900 feet

Number of runs: 113

Snowboarding: Yes

Terrain park: 2

Halfpipe: 1

Comment: While riding horses in the 1950s, a friend suggested to Alvin Cobabe that his high-mountain land would make a great ski area. He liked the idea and started to acquire adjacent land. Powder Mountain opened in 1972 with the Sundown lift and, along with lessons, lights for night skiing.

There's much more to the resort than people realize. Along with the packed runs, there are acres and acres of open powder runs, thus came the name.