Winter strong for Olympic Park

By Nancy Barth
May 15, 2012

According to a recent article in the Park Record, the Utah Olympic Park located in Park City just finished its strongest winter on record. Between increased marketing efforts, the 10-year anniversary of the Utah Olympics and the Summer Olympics gearing up in London, the nonprofit has seen numbers stay strong throughout this past winter season.

“We did not have a slow moment up here this winter,” said Lindsey Wolff, the communications coordinator for the Utah Olympic Park. “We expected a lull after Christmas or after President's Day weekend, but we were consistently busy this winter season. The lull never came.”

Overall, visitor numbers were up from the year before, and a handful of weeks were booked solid with back-to-back sessions for the bobsled rides. The Utah Olympic Park saw a 20 percent increase on tours, a 20 percent increase in group events and a 60 percent increase in bobsled and skeleton rides.

Utah Olympic Park Goes For Gold

By Nancy Barth
Mar 24, 2012

According  to an article in the Park Record, the Summit County Council this week approved a beautiful new addition to the Utah Olympic Sports Park.  Summit County Council members called the Utah Olympic Park rezone an enormous asset to the community prior to approving the expansion of the park to include 67,000 square feet of athlete housing comprising about 112 lodge units, a 40,000-square-foot sports medicine and training facility, expansion of the existing Day Lodge, and additional office space.

The Olympic Park was built prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics and since then has been operating as a venue for international and local athletes to train as well as hosting World Cup events for skeleton, bobsled and ski jumping competition.

Colin Hilton, head of the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, said “the additional buildings will show Utah's commitment to the legacy of the Olympics, increase the possibility that Utah will host the Olympics again, and keep the venue financially viable without relying on the Olympic endowment fund”.

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