Accessibility

Published: Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006 3:30 p.m. MST
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Next to great snow conditions, accessibility is probably the next most appreciated advantage to skiing in Utah.

There are more than 25,000 skiable acres open to skiers within a one-hour drive from the Salt Lake City International Airport.

In less than six hours, skies can put track down on six world-class resorts through Ski Utah's Interconnect Adventure Tour — Deer Valley, Park City Mountain Resort, Solitude, Brighton, Alta and Snowbird.

In less than 10 hours, with proper planning, a skiers can ski 11 of Utah's 13 resorts. It's been done.

In the span of two days, a skiers can buy and use up passes at three of the country's highest rated resorts — Deer Valley, which has been ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the country by SKI Magazine for the past several years, and Alta/Snowbird, which has been ranked No. 1 for five straight years by SKIING Magazine.

Plotted on a map, there are seven resorts — Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton, The Canyons, Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resort — within a 38-mile radius of the airport.

Those seven and four more — Snowbasin, Sundance, Powder Mountain and Wolf Mountain — are within a 60-mile circle of the airport.

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The remaining two resorts, Beaver Mountain and Brian Head, are not much farther. Beaver is a two-hour drive to the north, and Brian Head is a 3 1/2-hour drive to the south.

All in all, it's not hard getting to what is constantly rated as the Greatest Snow on Earth.

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An aerial view of Trapper's Loop road to Snowbasin. The road makes Snowbasin more accessible from Salt Lake City. (Tom Smart, Deseret Morning News)
Tom Smart, Deseret Morning News
An aerial view of Trapper's Loop road to Snowbasin. The road makes Snowbasin more accessible from Salt Lake City.