Miner's Day Celebration

In Park City, Labor day is called “Miner's Day” because our lovely little town used to be the home of one of the largest mining boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1892, Park City was already famous for having one of the most famous silver mines in the world. This period of abundance came to an end in the 1950s when our community nearly became a ghost town before transforming itself as a fledgling ski town in 1963.

Over all those years, and through the hard work of its miners, Park City counts today as much as 1,200 miles of underground galleries, most of them running deep under many of our favorite ski runs from Deer Valley through Canyons! Yesterday was a wonderful opportunity after a parade through Main Street, a huge crowd gathering at City Park and that unique mucking and drilling contest, to remind us all where we, the Parkites, really come from.

In the 28 years we've lived in town, this was only the second time that we attended the mucking and drilling contest, but it was so fun that we may doing again next year!