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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Alta Ski Area, American Fork Canyon, American Fork River, Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah), Big Cottonwood Canyon, Big Cottonwood Creek, Big Mountain Pass, Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Chad's Gap, Deer Valley, Emerald Lake (Utah), Ensign Peak, Francis Peak, Granite Mountain (Utah), Hastings Cutoff, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Creek, Little Dell Reservoir, Lone Peak, Lone Peak Wilderness, Mill Creek Canyon, Mineral Fork Formation, Mount Nebo (Utah), Mount Ogden, Mount Olympus (Utah), Mount Timpanogos, Mount Timpanogos Wilderness, Mount Van Cott, Ogden Canyon, Parley's Canyon, Pfeifferhorn, Pineview Dam, Red Butte Garden and Arboretum, Rock Canyon (Utah), Soldier Summit, Utah, Solitude Mountain Resort, Strawberry Reservoir, Strawberry River (Utah), Timpanogos Cave National Monument, Timpanogos Glacier, Twin Peaks (Utah), Utah Olympic Park, Wasatch Mountain State Park, Weber Canyon, West Mountain (Utah). Excerpt: Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range, located 36 miles (58 km) east of Salt Lake City, in Park City, Utah, United States. The resort, known for its upscale amenities, is consistently ranked among the top ski resorts in North America. Deer Valley was a venue site during 2002 Winter Olympics, hosting the freestyle moguls, aerial, and alpine slalom events. It also regularly hosts competitions for the International Ski Federation. With a number of other large ski resorts nearby, Deer Valley competes by catering to a more upscale audience than its neighbors, offering amenities such as free ski valets, free parking shuttles, fine dining and boutique shopping in the main lodge. The resort's mid-mountain lodge, the Stein Eriksen Lodge, offers luxury accommodations and spa facilities. Stein Eriksen, its gold medalist namesake, is host of the lodge and director of skiing at the resort. Deer Valley uses more grooming equipment than other Wasatch ski areas, and limits access to avoid overcrowding; as of 2006, the resort limited ticket sales to 7,500 per day. Deer Valley's total uphill lift capacity of 46,500 skiers per hour is approximately 50% higher than the capacity of each of its larger neighbors Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons. Deer Valley has 21 chairlifts, including 12 high speed detachable quads and an enclosed 4-passenger gondola. View of Ruby Express from new Lady Morgan terrainSkiing began at Deer Valley with the Park City Winter Carnivals of the 1930s, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the first ski trails and other facilities during the winter of 1936-1937. The first ski lifts appeared in 1946, when local residents Robert Emmett Burns, Sr. and Otto Carpenter constructed them, largely from nearby lodgepole pines. The ski area was called the Snow Park Ski Area, a name which endured from 1946 to 1969. In 1981 a private resort officially opened in the same area as Deer Valley and has grown to include six mountains with six bowl
