Alta, Utah Alta, Utah Alta Ski Area Alta Ski Area Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
Location in Salt Lake County and the state of Utah.
Location of Utah in the United States Location of Utah in the United States Country United States State Utah County Salt Lake Alta is a town in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States.
It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Alta is also the locale of Alta Ski Area, a ski resort that has 500,000 visitors a year.
Cecret Lake near Alta Alta has been meaningful to the evolution of skiing in Utah.
Alta was established about 1865 to home miners from the Emma mine, the Flagstaff mine, and other silver mines in Little Cottonwood Canyon.
Facing back taxes on quarrying claims he owned, Watson donated much of the territory in Alta to the U.S.
Watson stipulated that the Forest Service use the territory to construct a ski area.
In 1935, Norwegian skiing legend Alf Engen was hired to help precarious the area, and Alta opened its first ski lift in 1938.
Today, Alta is a small town, centered around the Alta Ski Area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 4.1 square miles (10.5 km2), of which, 4.1 square miles (10.5 km2) of it is territory and 0.25% is water.
At 8,950 feet (2,730 m), Alta is one of the highest metros/cities in Utah, and one of the highest in America.
The ethnic makeup of the town was 93 percent white and 4 percent Hispanic or Latino.
The populace was 67 percent male and 33 percent female.
Alta experiences a high altitude humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), which borders on a subalpine climate (Dfc), due to its high elevation.
Due to its adjacency to the Great Salt Lake, the town receives very heavy snows, averaging over 507 inches (12.9 m) per year.
During the very wet season of 1982/1983, Alta received as much as 900 inches (23 m) of snow, dominant to record flooding of Wasatch streams as the snow melted amid May and June that year. Alta's total rain of 108.54 inches (2,756.9 mm) amid 1983 is a record for a calendar year in any state of the Mountain West; strangely Villanueva only 675 miles (1,086 km) away recorded only 0.91 inches (23.1 mm), which is a record low for New Mexico, in that same year.
Climate data for Alta, Utah (Elevation 8,730ft) Record high F ( C) 57 Twister (tree) positioned near Alta United States Enumeration Bureau.
United States Geological Survey.
Dan Plazak, A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-87480-840-7, p.39-77.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Utah Battles Floods, Mud"; in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; June 3, 1983; p.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Alta, Utah.
Town Of Alta Official Website Alta Ski Area Official Website Alta Community Enrichment, the Alta Arts Council Alta Visitors Bureau Alta Municipalities and communities of Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
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