Canyons and Solitude Propose Gondola to Link Park City and Big Cottonwood Canyon
By Rocky Thompson on November 18th, 2011
Photo by Cindi & Jason
Park City residents who lament the other side of the range getting more snow may soon have a way to get to Big Cottonwood without driving 45 miles down Parley’s Pass, around Salt Lake City and up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Solitude. A proposed gondola would move 1000 skiers ever hour from Canyons resort to Solitude. This is good news for Park City skiers who stick to resorts, bad news for skiers who cherish the relative emptiness of Solitude, and even worse news for the Save Our Canyons contingent. The U.S. Forest Service would sell 30 acres of land for the development. I wonder if that recently passed jobs bill that sought to make it easier for resorts to develop National Forest land had anything to do with the timing of this proposal?
Write a comment… bad idea! Just more greed! I hope the US forest service takes care of just that…maintain the foresrt just the way it is!
This sounds like it will take tons of polluting cars out of the canyon commute. Perhaps skiers will impact the environment LESS by riding point A to point B in an electric gondola rather than driving the family SUV around for hours to get there.
Greed? I don’t buy it. This just makes practical and environmental sense.
Look at the European Alps. They do this in their mountains with great success. Get out of your cars!! We could learn from them.
So where is this eye sore of a parking lot going to be in Big Cottonwood to aid in getting people over to Poser City (I mean Park City)