Way We Were: Otto Carpenter built more than Snow Park
Otto's most enduring legacy may be a modest one-story building off the beaten path at 1361 Woodside Avenue in Park City.
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Otto's most enduring legacy may be a modest one-story building off the beaten path at 1361 Woodside Avenue in Park City.
In 1946, Otto Carpenter and Bob Burns opened Snow Park, Park City's first alpine ski area.
It was O-Dark-30 as the patrollers climbed on board a shiny gondola cabin at the base of the new Treasure Mountains ski area. Coffee in hand, plus a copy of the day's Salt Lake Tribune newspaper to while away the time, they settled in for the long ride to the top of the ridgeline — 11 minutes to the angle station, another 11 more to the summit.
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Park City Museum researcher A 1996-1997 ski season map and guide for what was then known as Wolf Mountain. The terrain is now the Canyons Village side of Park City Mountain Resort. Park City Historical Society & Museum, Sandra Morrison Collection People have been skiing in Park City since at least the 1890s. Skiing was a local affair for a while, but as mining on our mountains became less profitable, we used our mountains to build skiing into Park City’s business. The first ski jumps were made on the Creole Mine dump on the hillside west of Old Town. In 1937 the Works Progress Administratio...