The Park City Planning Commission is set to consider one of the first lift projects in Deer Valley’s Expanded Excellence expansion next week. The new Lift 7 would become not only become Deer Valley’s first six pack but also its first bubble chair and first D-Line lift. Though relatively short, Lift 7 will form a key link between existing terrain on Bald and Flagstaff mountains and Park Peak, the summit of Expanded Excellence terrain. In the below map, Lift 7 is the uppermost red alignment surrounded by green runs. It will be accessed from existing Ontario and Trump ski runs and carry 3,000 skiers per hour. Guests will unload near the top of the future East Village gondola and Lift 6 six pack on Park Peak.
The project currently under review includes 4.62 miles of beginner ski runs that will be among the highest elevation trails at Deer Valley, topping out at 9,285 feet. Lift 7 will include 58 bubble chairs both for guest comfort and wind protection. The top drive, bottom tension machine will ascend 624 vertical feet in just 3.5 minutes at 1,000 feet per minute. Half the chairs can be parked in the bottom terminal with the rest in an adjacent 8,500 square foot storage facility. Deer Valley proposes to install 10 lift towers ranging in height from 19 to 53 feet.
Lift 7 is one of ten lifts set to be built over the next two summers as part of Expanded Excellence, set to open in winter 2025/26. If approved, Lift 7 and perhaps other lifts could open as early as next winter. Alterra typically announces specific capital plans for all its resorts in March but has not yet done so for 2024 (the only reason we know these details about Lift 7 is because it falls within the purview of the Park City municipal Planning Commission. The rest of the expansion is outside Park City boundaries in Wasatch County.) The Grand Hyatt Deer Valley is slated to open next season and in order to be ski in, ski out, the out-of-base Lift 3 would need to be constructed this summer to connect to Sultan Express. That project would likely also be a Doppelmayr bubble six place. Other real estate access chairlifts may be constructed this summer as well. I have reached out to Deer Valley for more information on 2024 lift plans and will update if I hear back.
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I don’t know much about how municipal planning commission works, would this lift get rejected like Park City’s lift upgrade ?
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Likely not for the same reason. The issue with the other lifts at PC came up because of complaints of parking. the Deer Valley expansion is opening a new base area outside if the city so it’s a new place for people to enter the resort and not increase traffic
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This entire new development is a joke in my opinion. There is absolutely no parking at the base of this new ski area unless it’s underground. The only parking lot is this which will fit about 120 cars. https://maps.app.goo.gl/pR1koRckNgNwYaQh9
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They’ve promised 1,200 day skier parking spots in addition to parking for the village.
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I’m confused by the location of the Park Peak and the restaurant. So this bubble chair and the nearby Lift 6 don’t service the peak or restaurant? Seems silly to me.
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Nevermind. Closer look on 3rd map. They hit summit and looks like the restaurant will be downhill from the summit and these 2 lifts. First map showing the (I assume) gondola/restaurant doesnt serve the summit.
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Will this lift have stitched individual seats?
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Deer Valley has surprisingly little beginner terrain, this should be easily accessible from the future gondolas, and it will help link future terrain to the current mountain. Beginner terrain up high, where you can see the vistas and feel the mountains more is always a draw.
I’m assuming they’re going bubble due to the exposure? This seems like a slightly odd place for a first bubble and six given the DV clientele.
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Yeah a lot of the greens only amount to transit trails for moving between different sections of the resort, or as the means of getting to blue trails.
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