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Show Brian Head looks forward to summer season; building booms j With its reputation for being one of the best winter resort sites in the west firmly fir-mly established, Brian Head is now gearing up for the summer recreation trade. pioneered Brian Head as a ski resort in 1964 with one chair lift, a T-bar and sleeping facilities for four couples. Now he has four chair lifts and other in- r ,! awn-"1 -Win, 4. .:-- ' i, , , " & businesses are on the drawing boards. It is expected ex-pected that Holiday Inn, Ramada Inn and Hyatt Regency will come in and signal the beginning of convention business. Nichol's Brian Head Enterprises plans to eventually operate 10 chairlifts. The firm will invest some $ millions this summer for new facilities which will include two new lifts and a snowmaking machine. This will advance the skiing season from November 25 to October 15. SUMMER RECREATION Most of Brian Head's investors will foster summer recreation as well as winter sports. The community will sponsor horse shoe pitching, games, tennis, swimming, chair lift rides to the top of Brian Head Mountain, scenic trail rides, back packing, guided walking and driving tours, weekend dances and parties and will provide day care for children. Satellite Television reception will become available this summer, too. The town is close to many hiking, camping, picnicking, trail riding, fishing and sight seeing areas. Seven lakes and rivers are nearby. Zion j and Bryce Canyon parks, j Cedar and Parowan Breaks, Kodachrome, Kolob, Snow Canyon and Parowan Gap ! are within short driving j ranges. ( The massive Gothic walls j and sphinx-size natural 1 statuary of Cedar Breaks j National Monument make it a popular year-round attraction. at-traction. A five-mile road j winds through forests of bristlecone pine and wild-flower wild-flower fields and offers many panoramas of the Breaks and high country. ' FOUR VIEWS Cedar Breaks can be seen from four major view points along the route. The Breaks fill an amphitheater almost half a mile down and two miles from rim to rim. The cliffs, white and orange at the top, break into colors of deep rose and coral. Approach Ap-proach to the monument via Utah 14 is from 1-15 at Cedar City, or from Parowan by way of Utah 143. Another advantage is proximity to the towns of Beaver, Parowan, Cedar City, St. George and Kanab on U.S. Highway 1-15 connecting con-necting Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. And Brian Head contpage32 "Being near to fishing and some of the most spectacular spec-tacular state and national I parks and monuments in the U.S., I think the area has great year round potential," declares Burton K. Nichols. Former Hughes Aircraft engineer Nichols, from J Marina del Rey, California, vestors, mostly from California, have surrounded them with 400 condominiums and cabins, three restaurants, a general store, city hall, fire station, three sport shops, snowmobile center and a post office. Hundreds more condominiums con-dominiums and related Brian Head has become a city 1 cont from page 14 J is the closest Utah resort to the west coast and Pacific Islands. Brian Head is at 9,770 feet elevation, one of the highest towns in the country. The air is cool and bracing. TOWN GROWS The community continually con-tinually grows. Presently under construction are 70 condominiums by Brian Head Environments, Inc. which has already built 80. Its president Douglas Perry predicts that 150 to 200 condos a year will go in until available land is used up. He will also soon begin three major projects called Giant Steps, a totally owned condo complex of 120 units; the Mall, a residential-commercial residential-commercial layout, whose condos will be time-share and stores leased; and Mountain View, whose first phase will be 36 condominiums con-dominiums this year and 36 next. The Evergreens con- dominum of 20 units is now being completed by Evan Dobson of Cedar City and he plans another 20. Vincent Carroll of Palos Verdes, California, says he will start 80 more units for Chalet Village in 1982. Chalet is managed by Mike Golden. Nearly all these housing projects will include swimming pools, spas, saunas, game rooms and the like. A tennis court will be ready for use this year and racquet ball courts are planned. A CITY Brian Head became a city in 1975. Now it has a fire fighting department, sewer line, water system, ambulance, am-bulance, garbage truck and two fulltime employees. Permanent polulation is 85. The city is on a solid pay-as-it-goes basis as these charges indicate: house water and sewer connection, $4,000 and $49 a month for sewer, water and garbage service. Mayor is Rex Emenegger, formerly of Ventura, California, son of a newspaper editor. Now he is president and manager of Taurus corporation which operates five restaurants, three in Brian Head and two in Cedar City. Emenegger is as enthusiastic en-thusiastic about Brian Head's potential for being a summmer resort as Burt Nichols. "We may pull more tourists in summer than in winter," he predicts. "But we will have to give them good reasons." Most of Brian Head's visitors have been from Nevada (50 percent) with California accounting for 35 percent. BUSTLING BUSINESS The business community is small but bustling. Taurus established Ferdinand's Fer-dinand's restaurant in 1970; Milt's Stage Stop in 1975, Minnie's Mansion and Mickey McQ's in 1978. It brought Los Hermanos cafe in Cedar City as of May 1 this year. Emenegger employs about 80 persons during the summer. He plans to open another restaurant in Fiddler's Canyon near Cedar City in early 1982. "Apple Annie" (Ann Goldstein) once operated a sandwich shop at the old Mountain Market in Brian Head, which she changed later to a store, so Larry Cahill of Parowan suggested to Joyce and Jean Buttery that they call their store Apple Annie's Country Store. It also includes the U.S. Post office. ANOTHER ANNIE'S The Butterys have opened another Apple Annie's in Cahill's Old Rambouillet Barn in Parowan. Jean also operates Alpine Stables in Brian Head, offering horseback hor-seback rides, horses for rent and riding lessons. Eidelweiss Condominiums, Con-dominiums, managed by John Davis, will be enlarged by a Jacuzzi bath and recreation room. Doug, Deb, Tim and Chip Deutschlander run Brian Head Sports. They will sell the tickets this summer for the large chair lift that will take patrons to the top of Brian Head mountain. During Minnie's Mansion Days celebration in August they will stage a 1981-82 ski season sale. Meantime they will landscape around their building. Dutch Deutschlander manages Brian Head Village of 84 privately owned condominiums, con-dominiums, established in 1970, and a rental agency. Barbara and Chris Dwyer operate The Aspens, a 26 condo project. Chris is also manager of the Brian Head office of Color Country Realty, Parowan and Cedar City, developer of The Aspens. OUTDOOR EXPERT Former university professor Bill Morris, operator of - Bristle Cone Hostel, is considered Brian Head's expert cross country ski and outdoors expert. His operation consists of three cabins that sleep 4 to 8, 6 to 10 and 10 to 17 respectively and a lodge underway that will accommodate 38 to 48 persons. Bill conducts a hiking guide service, professional retreats, summer camps, scouting expeditions, family reunions, a tour from Parowan to Cedar City via Brian Head and the like. cont page 19 |