7 Salt Lake City Ski Resorts
7 Salt Lake City Ski Resorts Most ski buffs are aware that Park City has some marvelous ski resorts. After all, it was the site of the majority of the 2002 Winter Olympics here in Utah. But even with all that fame, most folks don’t know that there are actually 7 ski and snowboarding resorts within a 30 minute drive of Salt Lake City. That’s right, 7, count em 7. One for each day of the week! Ski resorts close to Salt Lake City include Solitude and Brighton Ski & Snowboarding Resort (right up Little Cottonwood Canyon), Snowbird ski and summer resort and Alta Ski Resort (up Big...
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Salt Lake City, Utah-Great Salt Lake One of the most picturesque sites in Salt Lake City is the Great Salt Lake and its 9 islands. This indeed is one of the most asked about tourist destinations. The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of the ancient Lake Bonneville, a pre-historic body of water which covered some 20,000 square miles of land in what is now Utah, Nevada and Idaho The lake is landlocked and is quite salty, much like the Dead Sea. The Great Salt Lake is the largest lake between the Pacific Ocean and the Great Lakes, and it’s the largest Salt Water lake in the Western...
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