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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
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12-03-2025
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Park City To Begin Multi-Year Parking Structure Project
Construction on a new parking structure at Park City Mountain, Utah, will soon begin in the Canyons Village, and reductions to free parking are expected starting March TownLift reports that, on March 17, 50% of the Cabriolet lot at the Canyons Village will close. About two weeks later, capacity in the Cabriolet lot will reduce further between April 1 and April 20 before closing entirely until December 2025 as construction on the new garage continues. Via the Cabriolet lot, visitors to Park City Mountain can park and then ride a small ropeway to the Canyons Village base.'The arrival and parking experience to Canyons Village will undergo some adjustments,' Vail Resorts, the owners of Park City Mountain, said in a press release, noting that additional staff and signage will be used to help guests navigate the changes to to keep up with the best stories and photos in skiing? Subscribe to the new Powder To The People newsletter for weekly the period of reduced parking access, Vail Resorts recommended that Canyons Village visitors use public transportation. Several lines of the free Park City transit system pass through the Canyons Village base. All surface lots in the Canyons Village remain free this winter, and guests with four or more passengers in their vehicles can park in the upper Lot 4. Paid parking is available in the Upper Village garage parking structures and designated spaces along W. High Mountain a press release, Vail Resorts said that the garage will increase carpooling and reduce congestion, as well as feature a ground-floor pedestrian plaza, electric vehicle outlets, and easy, walkable access to the Cabriolet. 'This new parking plaza creates a single, convenient, covered point of arrival with multiple entrances that gets guests on snow with ease,' the press release structure will be located at the southeast corner of Lower Village Road and the Frostwood Drive/Canyons Resort Drive roundabout and joins the construction of the new Sunrise Gondola in ongoing Canyons Village projects. The Sunrise Gondola, which will transport guests from the base to the Red Pine area, has a planned opening next ski garage consolidates and replaces surface parking throughout the Canyons Village. The TownLift reports that once complete, it will house approximately the same number of currently available stalls alongside pre-existing surface asked if the new garage would offer free or paid parking, resort officials didn't provide confirmation, saying that details haven't yet been finalized, the TownLift reports.
