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Nordic Valley Resort offers a variety of skill levels to accommodate each skier, and snowboarder. Approximately 20 percent of the mountain is appropriate for beginners, 50 percent for intermediate skiers and 20 percent for advanced skill levels. Nordic Valley Resort also boasts the best slopes in Utah for night skiing with the entire mountain lit up each evening. Located in Weber County, Utah, Nordic Valley is less than 60 miles from Salt Lake International Airport.
On January 15, 1939, Alta Ski Area opened the second chairlift in the country – the Collins Lift. A ticket for the lift that first season was .25 cents.
With a spectator stadium large enough for 10,000 people, Deer Valley hosted several events during the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics – including freestyle aerials and moguls.
In 1936, members of the Wasatch Mountain Club installed a rope tow at Brighton, creating one of the first lift-served ski areas in the country.
At a time when only 7% of the nation’s ski areas permitted snowboarding, Powder Mountain threw open the gates and became one of Utah’s first snowboard-friendly ski resorts. By the end of the decade, Powder Mountain was hosting some of the state’s earliest snowboard pipe and slalom contests.
