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Park City Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the western United States in Park City, Utah, located east of Salt Lake City. Opened in 1963, the resort has been a major tourist attraction for skiers from all over the United States, as well as a main employer for many of Park City's citizens. Park City, as the ski resort and area is known, contains several training courses for the U.S. Ski Team, including slalom and giant slalom runs. During the 2002 Winter Olympics the resort hosted the snowboarding events and the men's and women's alpine giant slalom events. The resort was purchased by Vail Resorts in 2014 and combined the resort with neighboring Canyons Resort via an interconnect gondola to create the largest ski area in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Goodbye Canyons, hello Park City: Utah ski resort on track to be biggest in U.S. )〕 During the ski season, most slopes and lifts are open from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with some runs open later for night skiing. Park City is one of the featured mountains in the video game Shaun White Snowboarding for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. ==History== The resort was opened on December 21, 1963 as ''Treasure Mountain'' by United Park City Mines. This company was the last surviving mining corporation in Park City, and the resort was opened with funds from a federal government program meant to revive the economically depressed town. When it originally opened, it boasted the longest gondola in the United States, as well as a double chairlift, a J-bar lift, base and summit lodges, and a nine-hole golf course. The gondola was a four-passenger Polig-Heckel-Bleichert (PHB, a German aerial ropeway company). Its sister lift was built at Sugarloaf/USA in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, after top members of Sugarloaf's management visited Park City's lift. When the slopes first opened to the public, a special ''Skier's Subway'' was used to transport skiers nearly into the mountain through the pitch-black Spiro Tunnel on a mine train, where skiers then boarded a mining elevator that lifted them to the surface, and from there they had access to the entire mountain.〔〔''(The Milwaukee Journal )'' - Skiing facilities grow with skiers - 1965-01-10 - p.7〕 Aerial trams once used for hauling ore were converted into chairlifts. To this day, there are still more than of old silver-mine workings and tunnels beneath the slopes at Park City Mountain Resort and its neighboring resort, Deer Valley. Treasure Mountain's name was changed to the ''Park City Ski Area'' for its fourth season of 1966-67, and in 1996, became known as the Park City Mountain Resort. The resort had grown to include eight peaks and nine bowls, with of skiing and 16 chairlifts. The resort has also developed summer activities including an alpine slide, alpine coaster, zip-lines, and several hiking and biking trails. A sister ski area, originally known as ''Park City West'' and later as Canyons Resort, opened in 1968. Deer Valley Resort opened in December 1981, at the site of the former ''Snow Park'' (1946–69). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Park City Mountain Resort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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