Park City Mountain ResortThe largest ski resort in the United States — 7,300 acres, 41 lifts, ski-to-Main Street

Park City Mountain opened on December 21, 1963 as Treasure Mountains, with the longest gondola in North America at the time, a double chair, two J-bars, and a base lodge — built by United Park City Mines as a way to revitalize an 1869 silver-mining town. Sixty-three years later it's the largest ski resort in the United States by skiable terrain: 7,300 acres, 41 lifts, more than 330 trails, and a vertical of 3,226 feet.

The acreage came together in 2015 when Vail Resorts connected the original Park City Ski Area with the neighboring Canyons Resort via the Quicksilver Gondola — a 7,300-acre, two-mountain operation under one lift ticket, with three base villages (Mountain Village, Canyons Village, and the Town Lift on Main Street). The Town Lift remains the resort's signature: it loads directly off Park City's historic Main Street and runs back up the mountain, the only major U.S. resort with a chairlift integrated into a downtown.

Park City has been the home of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team since 1974 and hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics — and it'll do it again in 2034 when Salt Lake City returns the Games to Utah. The mountain holds the Olympic halfpipe and slopestyle courses, six terrain parks, the McConkey's Bowl tree skiing, and Jupiter Bowl's lift-served chutes — plus 8% beginner, 42% intermediate, 50% advanced terrain spread across two mountains.