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SKIING DOUBLE: DEER VALLEY EAST An expansion of staggering scope, once dreamt of in the original plans for Deer Valley more than 50 years ago, is coming to life.
A digital overlay of the planned new trails (shaded light green) over the topography of the expansion area. Existing Deer Valley terrain is at right.
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years. “But adding nine or ten lifts in two years (via Phase 1 of the expansion) is substantial,” he says. “We saw the writ- ing on the wall.” When the team start- ed getting into the heavy construction mid-summer, “the reality came that we might be able to pull this off.” When complete, the entire expan- sion will encompass 16 new lifts includ- ing a gondola, 135 new ski runs, and 3,700 added acres of skiable terrain. If it were a standalone resort, it would be the largest new public U.S. ski area built in about a half century. Combined, Deer Valley’s total skiable acres will be 5,726. The expansion taps previously unde- veloped land that lies to the east between the existing resort and Route 40 and to the south of Bald Mountain, essentially creating mid-mountain ski lifts out of some that had once been at the resort’s boundary. » continued
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MAYFLOWER MOUNTAIN MASTER PLAN Overall Resort - Aerial View November 2021
BY APRIL DARROW
In mid-November, crews at Utah’s Deer Valley Resort were working around the clock to complete “Phase 1A” of the ambitious Deer Valley East expansion. The plan was to open three new lifts, 21 new runs, and about 300 additional acres by late December, almost a full
year earlier than planned. Phase 1 will more than double the resort’s skiable acreage by 2025-26. It wasn’t the intention for any new terrain to open this season, says Deer Valley VP of mountain operations Steve Graff, who’s been at the resort for 32
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