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Major Step In Gondola Replacement Completed at Park City
Park City Mountain Resort is currently in the process of replacing the Sunrise chairlift with a new gondola. The brand-new Sunrise Gondola will take guests from the base of the Canyons Village at Park City Mountain Resort to Red Pine Lodge at mid-mountain. Park City posted a video to their social media of the Gondola's new towers being placed via helicopter on June 12, marking a vital step in Phase 3 of the project. Tap or click to watch the video to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly updates.
In case you were hoping for more than just a cool video of a helicopter dropping heavy machinery, the new Sunrise Gondola will be a 6,500 ft., 10-passenger gondola starting next to Pendry Park City and the Lift Park City condos. The gondola's installation will hopefully bring a significant improvement to the guest experience. The resort anticipates a significant reduction in wait times in the Canyons Village base area by adding a third lift option to complement Red Pine Gondola and Orange Bubble Express to upper mountain. The project is being completed in three phases, of which the first two are complete. The third phase involves the removal of the existing Sunrise chairlift, installation of terminals, towers, rope, and cabins, and construction of a bottom terminal plaza. The old Sunrise chairs were decorated by local artists in representation of the mission statements of several local non-profits and auctioned off at an event on June 11. Any chairs not auctioned off at the event will be sold online to benefit the Park City Community Foundation's Early Childhood Alliance.
The chairlift's replacement comes in part due to the high winds that frequently impact the Canyons Village base area. The new gondola is aligned in a way that shelters it from the North, and has a profile that more closely follows terrain contour, as opposed to crossing wide spans of slope at a height which can create unsafe conditions in high winds. The increased weight of a gondola cabin over a chair also provides stability in turbulent weather. The combination of these factors will make the Sunrise Gondola generally less susceptible to these high winds and reduce the number of weather related holds and closures on the Canyons side of the resort. Park City Mountain Resort plans to open the new gondola for the 2025/26 winter Step In Gondola Replacement Completed at Park City first appeared on Powder on Jun 13, 2025
