Deer Valley, home to the Olympic Mogul competition on the run "Know You Don't", is widely known as the upper crust of the three Park City-area resorts. What many people don't know is that Deer Valley has established many standards in the ski resort industry that simply didn't exist when the resort opened in 1981. Owners Edgar and Polly Stern had come from a background in the luxury hotel and real estate business, and saw a brand new opportunity to apply hospitality industry standards to a ski resort.

As a result, Deer Valley has established a list of "firsts" in the industry that most skiers take for granted at any major resort these days. They run the gamut from beautiful lodges in the National Park building style to free parking lot shuttles and tissue boxes in the lift lines. Deer Valley was also the first resort to have a state-licensed child care facility on-site, and the first to offer truly fine dining. Impeccable service has also been a Deer Valley tradition from the start, as the area was the first to uniform all of its employees, and the first to offer ski valets and complimentary overnight ski storage.

Deer Valley is a perennial contender in the magazine rankings in the categories of food and service, and most often appears in the Top 5 overall in North America. But you don't get to be ranked in the Top 5 for service alone. You need great skiing, and Deer Valley is renowned for both its precise grooming, and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, its excellent and uncrowded tree skiing. Rumors abound of untracked snow left in the trees at Deer Valley for days or longer after a storm.

The Stein Eriksen Lodge is one of the premier lodging and dining facilities in ski country, and the only AAA Five-Diamond resort in Utah. The resort is named for the legendary Norwegian who won the first Olympic Giant Slalom event-by more than two seconds-in Oslo in 1952. Stein now serves as Director of Skiing for Deer Valley.

Of course, you'll definitely want to spend time exploring downtown Park City for more dining and entertainment options.

One more thing you should know: when you go to Deer Valley leave your snowboard at home-it is one of four resorts remaining in North America that do not allow boarding.


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