Is Park City Mountain too big?

I’ve always been one to complain about Park City Mountain’s old and slow chairlifts.

Well, when Vail Resorts purchased Park City Mountain in 2014, it got itself a huge mountain with plenty of lift and much acreage, but probably didn’t realize that many of the lifts it got were old (fixed grip) and needed replacement.

By contrast Whistler-Blackcomb in Canada has only 37 lifts that serve more than 2 million skier-days, Vail has just 31 for 1.8 million and Park City a whopping 42 lifts for just 1.5 million skier-days.

Lifts aren’t self-driving yet, require plenty of attendants and lots of TLC. Call Park City less efficient if you will and certainly much more costly for Vail Resorts to operate, maintain and upgrade, so we shouldn’t be surprised to have to put up with so many old and slow lifts.

We just need to be patients in more than just one way!