Life In the Valley

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Life Park City

With its clean, clear, dry air and sparkling

blue skies just visiting Park City is therapeutic. But if you want to take it to the next level, Park City offers more than a dozen luxury and day spas, including specialty treatments for your canine companions and for golfers.

Park City’s

Photo: Katie Eldridge, Courtesy the Canyons® Resort

year-round residents are an outdoorsy bunch.

Park City also offers plenty of ‘retail

therapy,’ too. From the charming shops and galleries lining Main Street to the branded bargains at the factory outlet mall, Park City has something for everyone.

And when you come, bring your appetite

to Park City. There’s more than 100 restaurants and bars to choose from and every kind of cuisine imaginable. And Park City attracts many of world’s finest chefs and restaurateurs. Chef Bill Hufferd’s Riverhorse on Main became

The Canyons Resort holds many festivals throughout the summer months

of-the-art steel track allows riders to weave down

the first restaurant in Utah to earn the coveted

a narrow course on an open speed-controlled sled.

DiRoNA award dedicated to “excellence in

Olympic Park also offers the Xtreme Zip… the

dining.” Seven Park City restaurants… Bangkok

world’s steepest… which jets along at 50 miles

Thai on Main, Glitretind, Spruce, 350 Main,

per hour along the 120 meter ski jump hill, or

J&G Grill, Jean-Louis, and The Mariposa…

for a milder ride, the Ultra Zip travels along

have been awarded the Wine Spectator Award

the winter freestyle hill. For the daring, three-

of Excellence. Bill White’s French-Asian

man summer bobsled rides are available on

restaurant, Wahso, was rated one of the top ten

“The Comet” which accelerates to 70 miles per

restaurants “in the World” by Fodors Travel.

hour and pulls 4 G’s of force – an equivalent of a 40-story drop – piloted by an experienced bobsled track. It’s over in a minute, but your kids will never forget the thrill. And every Saturday in the summer months Olympic freestyle hopefuls and national ski and snow­board team members delight and amaze audiences with

Above –

Photo: Rebekah Stevens, Courtesy The Canyons® Resort

choreographed stunts and high-flying acrobatics. 150

Photo: Rebekah Stevens, Courtesy The Canyons® Resort

driver, down the entire length of the Olympic


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