From Deseret News archives:
High adventure: Ski resorts offer a variety of summer thrills
The resort has also set aside a number of hiking-only trails. There is a short quarter-mile hike, with very little elevation change, that offers views of Jordanelle Reservoir and the Uinta Mountains. There is a longer five-mile hike, Sultan Out & Back, that offers easy descents and moderate ascents, that starts at the Silver Lake Lodge.
The resort also offers a number of summer adventure camps for kids.
All-day lift bike $24
Single ride bike $16
Scenic ride adult $13
Scenic ride kids $10
Park City Mountain Resort
Phone: 435-649-8111
This is the area with the widest range of summer activities, ranging from the new Alpine Coaster, to the alpine slide, ZipRider, climbing wall, mountain and hiking, scenic lift rides, the human maze, legacy launcher (trampoline with safety harness), miniature golf, kiddy rides, which includes a merry-go-round, and horseback riding.
At 3,000 feet, the resort's slide is one of the longest in the world. There are four different tracks, each winding and turning and dipping mid-mountain to the base.
There are four different cables for the ZipRider that carries riders, at times, up to 110 feet off the ground at speeds approaching 45 miles per hour.
There are also a number of rides open to keep the kids entertained.
There are two lifts open to bikers, hikers and scenic riders the Town Lifts that begins on the town's Main Street and the PayDay lift located at the base of the resort.
Coaster single ride $17
Coaster passenger $5
Alpine single ride $11
Alpine passenger $3
ZipRider single ride $19
Lift ride single $11
Snowbasin
Phone: 801-620-1013
Web: www.snowbasin.com
Disc golf, lift-served mountain biking and hiking through stands of trees and open meadows are among the options available.
The mountain biking trails are considered among some of the most enjoyable and scenic in the state. There are 25 miles of trails on ski-area property, and more trails running off the property that are controlled by the U.S. Forest Service.
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