The Canyons usa
Review of snowboarding and skiing in The Canyons USA.
The Canyons Ski Holiday Facts
Established in 1997 the American ski resort The Canyons lies at ? metres altitude in the Utah region of the American Wasatch90 snow cannons ensure artificial The Canyons snow making covers ?km of ski trails, which equates to around 25 of the ski slopes. The nearest airport transfer to The Canyons (USA) is Salt Lake City at a distance of 53km or approximately ? minutes driving time. The Canyons ski season runs from November to April.
SNO-man says
Formerly Park West and for a brierf period Wolf Mountain, The Canyons was re-christened in 1997 adding Utah's first gondola (8 seater) and a host of other new high sped lifts, creating one of North America's largest ski areas.
alpine downhill runs to ski in The Canyons USA
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The Canyons Resort & Holiday Info
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| Ski Pass Prices (adult 6 day) | $? - $? |
Traditional Ski Village / Purpose Built Ski Resort |
| Ski Resort Opens | Nov 2011 |
| Ski Resort Closes | Apr 2012 |
| (snow conditions often influence resort opening & closing) |
Ski Area The Canyons Mountain
| Downhill Ski Runs | ?km |
| total length of The Canyons trails |
| Longest lift serve Run | 4km |
| longest piste or trail reachable by ski lift |
| Ski Slope Orientation | N S |
| direction The Canyons ski areas face |
| Top Altitude | 3044.952m |
| top station of highest ski lift |
| Bottom Altitude | 2073m |
| bottom of lowest ski run |
| Resort Altitude | 1887m |
| centre of The Canyons ski resort |
| Vertical Drop | 972.3m |
| total descent from top lift to bottom piste |
| Skiable Vertical | ^v 972.3m |
| can include extra hike up which may be possible above top lift - stat used by some resorts to con us about true "vertical drop" which is lift-served |
Skiing in The Canyons
Skiing The Canyons you'll enjoy 146 pistes and trails and that means approximately ?km of ski runs. The Canyons lifts number 17 with the capacity to uplift 25700 skiers up the mountain per hour. The longest ski run in the American ski resort of The Canyons is over 4km long.
The Canyons Ski Area
The Canyons ski area has ?% beginner ski runs or nursery slopes, ?% intermediate, ?% advanced ski slopes and ?% for expert skiers - the most difficult The Canyons piste is the ?km Ninety Nine 90 run, with a steepness/slope angle of ?%. You can't ski The Canyons after dark.
The Canyons for skiing gets 4 stars out of 5 overall
The Canyons Apres Ski
The apres ski The Canyons scene and off-slope or "non-skier" activities include:
2 apres ski bars 12 restaurants 0 bowling 0 night club 0 cinema 0 billiards / pool 0 games room 0 concert 0 indoor swimming 4 outdoor heated pools 1 saunas 3 hot tubs 0 solariums 1 masseurs 0 indoor ice skating 0 outdoor ice skating 4 indoor sports centre 0 indoor tennis 0 squash racquetball 0 sleigh rides 1 ballooning 0 horse riding 0 prepare winter walks 0 climbing 1 golf 1 fishing 0 museum 0 library Plus these additional apres ski facilities Ballooning, Fishing, Massage, Snowcat Skiing, Spa (Some of These and Other Facilities in Park City).
SNO-man says
Park City itself has a vast list of activities available through the season, as well as a schedule of big events that include concerts, snow sculpture contests and the annual Sundance Film Festival in late January each year when more than 100 movies are shown. Some of the more unusual opportunities include bobsled rides and ski jumping at the nearby Utah Winter Sports Park, a tour 1500 feet down in the operational Park City Silver Mine or the surreal experience of scuba diving in a mineral-rich warm-water crater!
Utah's only historic train operates through the winter also so that you can journey over the snow fields of the Heber Valley. All this makes sleigh rides, dog sled rides, snowmobiling, ice skating, hot air ballooning, winter fly fishing or a nature tour seem rather pedestrian.
Indoors there are plenty of tennis and squash clubs as well as spas and massage professionals to visit.
The Canyons for apres ski gets 3 stars out of 5 overall
More The Canyons Snow Ski Area and Resort Information
The Canyons resort - ski The Canyons by any other name
The American ski resort of The Canyons ski resort is also known as The Canyons and has the following common misspellings:
The Canyons ski area has ski slopes which face N S
The direction which the various The Canyons ski slopes face can make or break your skiing or snowboarding holiday. If you want to guarantee good snow and ski conditions, you should choose a resort with ski slopes which face the right way for the time of year you're travelling.
- In the coldest winter months of January and February you need a ski resort with some sunny south facing ski slopes, so your days on the snow doesn't feel like a polar expedition. Conversely, in the warmest spring skiing months of March and especially April, a ski resort with some cool and shady north facing slopes will ensure you're not skiing on slush, but benefitting from best late season snow. The best ski resorts have ski areas and slopes which face in all directions so that you're guaranteed greating skiing whatever the weather. The Canyons ski resort has ski slopes facing N S.
The Canyons for snow gets 4 stars out of 5 overall