Park City, Utah Park City, Utah City Park City in 2006 Park City in 2006 Daly West and Quincy Mines in Park City (1911) Park City Utah Historical Wood Cabin Historic Miners Hospital in Park City Utah Park City is a town/city in Summit County, Utah, United States.
The town/city is 32 miles (51 km) southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and 19.88 miles (31.99 km) from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80.
After a populace decline following the shutdown of the area's quarrying industry, the town/city rebounded amid the 1980s and 1990s through an expansion of its tourism business.
The town/city presently brings annuallyly average of $529,800,000 to the Utah Economy as a tourist hot spot, $80,000,000 of which is attributed to the Sundance Film Festival. The town/city has two primary ski resorts: Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort.
Additionally the town/city is the chief locale of the United States' biggest autonomous film festival, the Sundance Film Festival, home of the United States Ski Team, training center for members of the Australian Freestyle Ski Team, the biggest compilation of factory supply stores in northern Utah, the 2002 Olympic bobsled/skeleton/luge track at the Utah Olympic Park, and golf courses.
Some scenes from 1994's Dumb and Dumber were shot in the city.
Outdoor-oriented businesses such as backcountry.com, Rossignol USA, and Skullcandy have their command posts in Park City.
The town/city has many retailers, clubs, bars, and restaurants, and has close-by reservoirs, hot springs, forests, and hiking and biking trails.
Park City is usually 20 F (11 C) cooler than Salt Lake City, as it lies mostly above 7,000 feet (2,100 m) above sea level, while Salt Lake City is situated at an altitude of about 4,300 feet (1,300 m).
In 2008, Park City was titled by Forbes Traveler Magazine among one of the 20 'prettiest towns' in the United States. In 2011, the town was awarded a Gold-level Ride Center designation from the International Mountain Bicycling Association for its mountain bike trails, amenities and community. 5 Park City Transit 6 Park City High School 7 Sister metros/cities The region was traveled by the early Mormon pioneers on their journey to where they settled and assembled Salt Lake City.
The pioneer named it "Parley's Park City", which was shortened to "Park City" in the early 1900s.
Connor, who instigated his men to search the region in bringing non-Mormons to the Utah region. The finding of silver, gold and lead sparked the first silver mines in Park City in the 1860s.
Park City's large quarrying boom brought large crowds of prospectors setting up camps around the mountain terrain, marking the first quarrying settlements.
By 1892 the Silver King Mine and its owners Thomas Kearns and David Keith took the spotlight as one of the most famous silver mines in the world. While silver was grow in Utah, other mines around the world were depleted, drawing many of these miners to Park City.
However, the town/city almost became a ghost town by the end of the 1950s because of a drop in the price of silver.
This is said to be when tourists first largely began to visit Park City.
Since the rise of the skiing and tourist economy, Park City homes more tourists than residents.
In the 1950s, Utah began to feed on Park City as a mountain getaway, and not until D.
James Canon promoted winter sports in Utah, with the promotional scheme of "Ski Utah" and "The Greatest Snow on Earth" did many drive to see the city.
In a small town with a populace of 8,000, the average number of tourists in Park City is 600,000 per year.
Growth has accelerated in the last several decades, and Park City is now one of the most well-to-do and lively resort suburbs in the United States.
According to the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, in 2012 travel, tourism and recreation generated $7.4 billion in spending and $960.6 million in state and small-town tax revenue for the State of Utah. That same year Utah's total gross domestic product was $128 billion, making tourism 5.8% of GDP for the Utah economy as a whole. Park City draws in 3,006,071 average annual visitors; in the winter 1,603,775, and in the summer 1,402,296. Park City prospers from the average eveningly visitor spending ranging from $100 to $350.
Currently, Park City primarily relies on its tourist trade from skiing to restaurants to hiking and biking.
The makeover of Park City has stimulated an entirely different culture of expenditure, adventure, and wealth, and their promotional material indulges it.
As long ago as the 1920s, miners in Park City were using underground trains and shafts to gain access to the mountain for skiing.
To this day, there are still more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of old silver-mine workings and tunnels beneath the slopes at Park City Mountain Resort and neighboring Deer Valley.
Park City might be a fairly nondescript-appearing town were it not for its colorful and evocative Main Street, where 64 Victorian buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
There are many remaining mine buildings, mine shafts (most blocked off from outsiders with large steel doors), and hoists, including the weathered remains of the California-Comstock and Silver King Mines and the water towers once used to hydrate one of the biggest mines, the Silver King, furnish a hint of the history of this quarrying town transformed in economic upheaval into a skiing resort.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 17.567 square miles (45.50 km2).
Park City is positioned at the south end of Snyderville Basin and climbs steep mountain peaks to the southeast, south, and west.
Summers in Park City are warm with cool evenings, while winters are cold and snowy.
Park City has a humid continental climate (Dfb).
Climate data for Park City, Utah The City Hall building in Park City, Utah As of the census of 2010, there were 7,558 citizens , 2,885 homeholds, and 1,742 families living in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.0% White, 0.6% African American, 0.30% Native American, 2.1% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 13.5% from other competitions, and 2.3% from two or more competitions.
As of the census of 2000, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $65,800, and the median income for a family was $77,137.
The per capita income for the town/city was $45,164.
Park City Transit Park City operates its own no-charge intra-city transit fitness (with extra service to limited areas of Summit County northeast of town).
Routes include service to the Canyons Village, Deer Valley Resort, Empire Pass, Jeremy Ranch Park & Ride lot, Kimball Junction, Park City Resort, Park Meadows, Pinebrook, Prospector Square, Silver Lake Village, Silver Springs, Silver Summit/Highland Estates, and Thaynes Canyon. All Park City Transit buses are ADA accessible, however, there is also a paratransit service for those ADA certified travelers that are unable to use the regular service. Hubs (or transition points) include Canyons Transit Hub, Newpark (Kimballs Junction), Old Town Transit Center, and Park City Mountain Resort.
Park City Transit has a Safe Haven Program where by all bus drivers have direct contact with the Park City Police Department.
Anyone who is in imminent danger is encouraged to board any of the buses to obtain assistance. Park City Transit buses are only allowed to stop at designated bus stops, but the street car may stop anywhere on chief street.
In addition to those routes directed by Park City Transit, two extra routes furnish transportation from Salt Lake Valley through Parleys Canyon to Park City. These routes are alluded to as Park City-Salt Lake City Connect or simply PC-SLC Connect and directed by Utah Transit Authority (UTA) through a cooperative accomplishment of Park City Transit, Summit County, and UTA.
However, since Park City Transit routes are free, transfers from PC-SLC Connect to Park City Transit are not an issue.
Park City High School Park City High School is positioned at 1752 Kearns Blvd Park City, Utah.
Park City School District's size is in the middle of the other Utah school districts, with over 4,500 pupils.
Stein Eriksen: 1952 Olympic gold and silver medalist in Alpine skiing; freestyle skiing innovator and skiing legend Eric Heiden, who won all five men's individual speed skating gold medals available at the 1980 Olympics, has lived in Park City since 2006; he presently maintains one of his two orthopedic surgery offices in the city. Barry Sims: NFL offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers, graduated from Park City High School "Park City (UT) Gold-level - International Mountain Bicycling Association".
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Park City Chambers of Commerce, Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2009.
Struck, Don (September 14, 2013), "From Echo to Park City: The Story of Union Pacific's Park City Branch", Utah - Rails.net.
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