Solitude Mountain Resort Solitude Mountain Resort Solitude Mountain Resort is positioned in Utah Solitude Mountain Resort - Solitude Mountain Resort Location of Solitude Mountain Resort, Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort positioned in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.

With 66 trails, 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) and 2,047 feet (624 m) vertical, Solitude is one of the lesser ski resorts near Salt Lake City, along with its neighbor Brighton.

It is a family-oriented mountain, with a wider range of beginner and intermediate slopes than other close-by ski resorts; 50% of its slopes are graded "beginner" or "intermediate," the highest such ratio in the Salt Lake City area.

Solitude was one of the first primary US resorts to adopt an RFID lift ticket system, allowing lift lines to move more efficiently while reducing "lift poaching".

Solitude is contiguous to Brighton Ski Resort near the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Most of Solitude's trails descend from a ridge (Eagle Ridge trail) which runs alongside with The Big Cottonwood Canyon Scenic Byway as it rises up the center of Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Two lifts quad chairs Powder Horn II and Eagle Express run to the top of Eagle Ridge, while quads Apex Express and Moonbeam Express feed the intermediate and beginner terrain (respectively) immediately below it.

The back of Eagle Ridge drops into Honeycomb Canyon, a long valley with most of the resort's bowl skiing.

Honeycomb Canyon is primarily accessed by the Summit Express Chair lift, which runs behind Eagle Ridge to the mountain's summit; return access from the bottom of Honeycomb Canyon is also available via the Honeycomb Return quad.

The Summit Chair also provides access to contiguous Brighton Ski Resort.

Barrett decided to start his own ski resort after being denied the use of the restrooms at Alta, which were reserved for Alta guests only. He started assembly at Solitude in 1956, having bought all the territory in Big Cottonwood Canyon, the next canyon over from Alta. The resort opened for company one year later, and passed through ownership shifts until it was acquired by a company group led by Gary De - Seelhorst in 1977. De - Seelhorst became the resort's sole owner in 1986 and implemented an aggressive renovation project, including the 1989 assembly of Utah's first express quad chairlift, Eagle Express. Accommodations upgrades in this reconstructionencompassed the assembly of the Creekside lodge in 1995. On October 3, 2014, Deer Valley Resort reported that they had entered into an agreement to buy Solitude from the De - Seelhorst family and took over operation of the resort on May 1, 2015. During the summer of 2015 under the new leadership of Deer Valley Resort the existing Summit double chair was replaced with a new high speed detachable quad with a new alignment.

The Solitude Nordic Center, nestled between the Solitude and Brighton ski areas, offers a range of nordic sport opportunities, including snowshoeing, skate and classic cross-country skiing.

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