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Area Highlights
The Wasatch Range is one of the nation's
premier mountain playgrounds. Uppermost in many visitors'
minds is the legendary skiing found at resorts such as Sundance,
Snowbird, Alta, and Park City. What many do not realize, however,
is that these same ski towns are also wonderful summer destinations.
Picturesque mountain communities and truly spectacular alpine
scenery add up to a community that is hard to beat.
Photo courtesy of Park City
Visitors Bureau |
Salt Lake offers the amenities
of a major metropolitan area with the friendliness of a small,
western city. The 2002 Olympic Winter Games highlighted Salt
Lake City as both a world-class travel and family-friendly
destination. Salt Lake is nestled in a valley at the foot
of the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains and has a climate with
abundant sunshine and low humidity that is comfortable year-round.
Today the Salt Lake Valley is one of the fastest
growing areas in the nation because of its thriving economy,
low unemployment rate, and good schools. Salt Lake City hosts
a number of professional sports teams and a variety of performing
arts companies, not to mention the Sundance Film Festival
in Park City and Salt Lake every January.
Salt Lake City also serves as a gateway to eleven
national parks within a day’s drive and to ten world-class
ski resorts with the Greatest Snow on Earth™. The ski
resorts and national parks provide countless opportunities
for year-round outdoor recreation, including hiking, camping,
rock climbing, mountain biking and more.
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