Finish in Park City for the Tour of Utah

We aren’t too much into spectator sports, but we made another exception to go to Main Street, Park City and watch the final and 6th stage of this year’s Tour of Utah that traditionally ends with a spectacular climb on Park City most picturesque historical street, loudly cheered by thousands of enthused spectators.

This is the 10th year Park City has served as a host city, and the seventh time it has hosted the final stage of the Tour. We do our best not to miss this event if we’re in town.

The atmosphere is festive, sponsors have booths where they liberally distribute the usual and fun schwag, it’s loud and we found a great spot where to sat in the shade while people-watching and following the race on a giant TV screen.

This last stage was a tough one, under 85 degree temperature and with 10,000 of climbing spread over some 78.2 miles with a climb to 9,700 feet at Empire Pass, just above Park City.

At the end, Joseph Dombrowski, an American, won the stage while Ben Hermans, a Belgian, won the Tour before the Canadian James Piccoli.

We returned home happy and fully satisfied and that’s good!