Best ski resorts in the Utah Wasatch

Alta is the powder mecca of North America: a skier-only mountain founded by the US Forest Service in 1938, hidden at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon, buried under 14 meters of snow a year. The lodges are deliberately old-school, the locals divide themselves between Wildcat and Sunnyside, and snowboards have never been welcome.

Snowbird sits at the head of Little Cottonwood Canyon, where more than 14 meters of snow fall each winter on a wall of granite. The Aerial Tram lifts a hundred skiers to Hidden Peak in seven minutes, the Cliff Lodge stands in raw concrete at the base, and there is no village beyond the resort itself.

Park City is the largest single ski resort in the United States, a 7300-acre playground that swallows Park City Mountain and The Canyons under one pass. Historic silver-mining Main Street still curves down through the valley, the airport sits 35 minutes away, and every January Sundance comes to town.

Deer Valley is the white-tablecloth address of the Wasatch, a ski-only resort where attendants park your skis at lunch and the dining rooms keep their linen pressed. Beneath the polish lies a surprisingly broad mountain, and the Mayflower expansion will nearly double the place by 2026.