Comments about ‘Deer Valley voted No. 1 resort in America’

for skiers! park city mountain resort gets all the big names and currently has the #7 terrein park in the world! the canyons is number 9.. i prefer not just doin s,s down the hill give me some jumps!

Consider the source of this rating: Ski Magazine. Ski Magazine has very little to do with actual skiing...instead they choose to focus on the ski lifestyle: Condos, dining, SUV's, apres-ski activities, resort town shopping, expensive ugly sweaters. Their demographic is mostly female, married, mid-40's, intermediate skier, household income around $125k.

This explains why they rated Deer Valley #1.

The other major ski magazines (namely Powder and Skiing) are more focused on the actual sport of skiing, not the lifestyle that surrounds it. That's why they typically rate Deer Valley in the 30's or 40's. Their top-rated resorts in Utah? Snowbird/Alta, with Solitude not far behind.

No resort in Park City deserved to even be mentioned alongside the big boys - they just don't get enough snow. The reason PCMR & Canyons need big terrain parks is to diguise the fact that they don't get enough snow and their mountains aren't actually very good for real skiers.