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Way We Were: Saving town history got urgent

After two decades of hard times during the 1950s and 1960s, Park City began to redefine itself from a mining town to a recreation destination.

Way We Were: Edgar Stern, the visionary who created Deer Valley

Deer Valley Resort is celebrating its 40th season in operation this ski season. This is the fourth article in a series covering Deer Valley from Park City’s mining era through the resort’s early days.

Way We Were: Preserving Park City — changing attitudes

After two decades of hard times during the 1950s and 1960s, Park City began to redefine itself from a mining town to a recreation destination. At the same time, the stars aligned nationally, statewide and…

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Way We Were: A brief history of Canyons Village

Park City Museum researcher A 1996-1997 ski season map and guide for what was then known as Wolf Mountain. The terrain is now the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Sandra Morrison Collection People have been skiing in Park City since at least the 1890s. Skiing was a local affair for a while, but as mining on our mountains became less profitable, we used our mountains to build skiing into Park City’s business. The first ski jumps were made on the Creole Mine dump on the hillside west of Old Town. In 1937 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built three ski runs, a ski jump, a toboggan run and a warming shack in Deer Valley. After World War II, Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns installed creative homemade lifts to take advantage of these ski runs. They called it Snow Park. That tiny resort closed in 1969 and re-opened in 1981 as Deer Valley Resort. In 1963 United Park City Mines used its patented mining land to open Treasure M