At times during the past seven winters, Rebekah Abrams has looked down from a Canyons ski lift and pondered changes. “Sometimes I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if this was here and that was there?’ ” said the 35-year-old Canyons season pass holder from Park City.
“And, voilà, some of it is happening. This is the beginning of the future and I’m excited to see how it goes.”
For starters, Canyons officials (the The from The Canyons has been dropped) have brought in the first bubble quad lift with heated seats in North America, opened up 300 more acres of mountain with the new Timberline lift on the south edge of the resort and designed a sexy new ski beach to give the après crowd even more of a reason to hang out on the mountain.
There is also the new mile-plus-long sic terrain park (which should leave boarders sore), double the snow-making capacity and too many lodging and food service changes to mention.
At a time when other ski resorts across Utah, North America and the world are making no or only minor improvements, Canyons has moved forward with a master plan and will spend tens of millions on capital improvements this year.
“We have been refreshing the plan over the past two years. Once it was complete, we were excited to get the projects under way. The timing is right,” said Mike Goar, managing director of Canyons.
Goar said the improvements make sense despite the poor economy, or perhaps because of it, as visitors to Canyons will feel like they are getting their money’s worth.
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