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Show Park City: Something for everyone One hundred years ago, travelers made their way to Park City through winding mountain passes on foot, horseback horse-back and stagecoach, drawn by the glitter of silver deep beneath the ground. Today, they come by 727 and turbo-charged autos, but now it's to take advantage of the riches on the surface. Modern technology may have made it simpler to get to Park City, but the growing list of things to do here has made it that much harder to leave. Because Park City is nestled at the bottom of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains, people tend to think of it as a winter recreation rec-reation area, and with good cause. Ever since the first ski lift opened in Deer Valley east of town in 1945, powder hounds have been coming to Park City to take advantage advan-tage of the nearly 300 inches of light snow that falls annually. Today, skiers have a trio of challenging chal-lenging ski resorts to try within minutes of the center of town: the Park City Ski area, Parkwest Resort Re-sort and the Deer Valley Resort, which opened its inaugural sea Park Hotel backed by experience The Park Hotel Condominiums Condo-miniums represent a step forward and a step back. It's a step into the future world of timeshare ownership, and step back in time to the elegant era in Park City's silver mining history. Who are the people responsible for this innovative approach to vacation va-cation living? Bob and Cindi Johnston are the owners and developers of the Park Hotel Condominiums. Mr. Johnston John-ston has been involved in real estate es-tate in a variety of capacities since 1976, and knows the concept of timesharing development and understands un-derstands its sound principles. The Johnstons also own a home in Park City, which was built in 1898. It has been carefully and beautifully restored, and now is filled with the antiques they have been collecting for the past seven years. Many of the fine pieces of furniture that will grace the units in the Park Hotel were collected by the Johnstons, who feel that Park City's colorful history must be preserved. "I used to ski in Park City years ago, and I became attracted to the Old Town historic district," said Mr. Johnston. "I wanted from the very beginning to build a project on Main Street, and we wanted it to be in keeping with that historic style." Marketing the Park Hotel is John Paul Brozyna of California Resorts, who has been working with timeshare projects for the son in December 1981. For those who prefer to slap on their skinny skis, there's the White Pine Ski Touring Center, and plenty of open territory for cross-country skiing. For the more daring, all three resorts invite cross-country skiers to ride the chairlifts for runs down the groomed slopes. Other popular winter pastimes include in-clude the annual U.S. Film and Video Festival, the Winter Carnival, Carni-val, Snow Sculpture Contest and dog sled races, as well as skating, sleigh rides and sledding. The summers are hot, too There's no doubt that Park City has a lot to offer in the winter. But the secret's out-the summers are hot with activity, too. Imagine sunny, cloudless days with temperatures tem-peratures in the low 80s and clear, starry nights in the refreshing 50s, and you'll understand why Park City has long been a retreat from the heat of the big citv. Because of the compact nature of the city, it's easy to get around on foot. As you walk up Main Street, imagine it in mining's hey- past decade. The Johnstons became be-came involved with Mr. Brozyna after visiting Jackson Court in San Franciscoa project that also places emphasis on the turn-of-the-century elegance. "Timesharing is different from everything else, and "J.P." (Broyzna) is experienced at marketing mar-keting it," said Mr. Johnston. "We have a great deal of respect for his abilities after looking at the properties prop-erties he's been involved in." And Mr. Broyzna practices what he preaches. He owns a timeshare unit himself, and intends to buy at the Park Hotel Condominiums. "Of all of the timeshare projects I've worked with, I think the Park Hotel is the best designed, best priced, and located in the best resort re-sort town," he said enthusiastically. enthusiasti-cally. The architect for the hotel project pro-ject is Ross Viehweg and Associates As-sociates of Orem, Utah. The main emphasis in the design of the building is to give it the style and elegance of the silver mining era, but the efficiency of today. By using space efficiently, the architect ar-chitect has prevented passing on unnecessary costs to the buyer. Richards-Woodbury Mortgage Corporation of Salt Lake City provided pro-vided the financing for the Park Hotel Condominiums. Through the efforts of Greg Johnson and August Brand, the financing has been handled from pre-construc-tion to individual closing. day, when horses were tied to hitching posts and miners walked up the dirt road on their way to the tunnels. It was 114 years ago that three soldiers chipped away at a piece of quartz high on the mountainside and discovered the first signs of silver, lead and gold. Their discovery was the beginning of a bonanza that would eventually eventu-ally yield more than $400 million in silver from the nearby mountains moun-tains and make millionaires of 23 ordinary men with extraordinary luck and perserverance. One of those men was George Hearst, who used the fortune he amassed in Park City to found the famous newspaper chain. Then, as now, Park City was a melting pot, and in the late 1800s, the town boasted a population of Chinese, Cornish, Scots and Scandanavians, all drawn by the glitter of silver. The variety of cultures cul-tures can be seen today in the diversity di-versity of architecture lining Main Street. Thought to be the best remaining re-maining example of a metal mining min-ing community in Utah, Main Street has been named to the Na- tional Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. Take an historic his-toric walking tour around town, or hike beyond Main Street toward to-ward the Ontario and Daly Mines. Ah, the sporting life For the sports enthusiast, there are a multitude of things to do in Park City. City Park has three tennis courts, picnic tables, playing play-ing fields and a playground for kids. Aside from the Park City Golf Course, there's the Arnold Palmer course at Jeremy Ranch near the city, and construction is due to begin this summer on the Jack Nicklaus course in town. Two athletic ath-letic clubs offer additional tennis courts, plus swimming, racquet-ball racquet-ball and volleyball. If you have a yen to get away, there's hiking, camping, horseback riding, bicycling, and within a half hour's drive, there is great fishing, windsurfing and sailing at the Deer Creek and Rockport reservoirs. reser-voirs. For more sedate recreation, there are plenty of shops to browse through in five separate areas in town. There you'll find everything ev-erything from fool's gold to cowboy cow-boy hats, plus restaurants that offer food from all over the world. Keep your eyes open for some of the summer's special events, like the annual Park City Arts Festival in August, or see cowboys in action ac-tion at rodeos throughout the county. Take a ride on the Alpine Slide or ride the historic Heber Creeper train that takes a scenic cruise from nearby Heber City to the Bridal Veil Falls. Park City after dark Does Park City roll up the sidewalks at night? Not a Deer Valley PARK HOTEL CONDOM INlUS P.O. Box 547 586 Main Street Park City, Utah 84070 649-3200 7"0 Nicklaus Golf Course 1 I Park Hotel Condominiums are conveniently located in Park City's Historic Main Street District. chance. A movie theatre shows three first-run flicks a night, and two local acting companies present pre-sent a full schedule of live productions. produc-tions. And speaking of live entertainment, enter-tainment, the Cowboy Bar and the Egyptian Theatre have hosted the likes of Tim Weisberg, Juice Newton, New-ton, Pure Prairie League and Michael Murphey in the past year, with more of the same scheduled. Live bands play nightly, so there's always a place to kick up your heels. For some peace and quiet, try stargazing at night. The clear mountain air provides just the atmosphere at-mosphere for constellation-watching. constellation-watching. Or if the stars you like to watch are closer to the ground, chances are you'll run into the likes of Hal Linden or Robert Red-ford Red-ford enjoying a night on the town. While there's lots to do in Park City, the real heart of the town is its people. The smallness of the community creates an atmosphere atmos-phere of friendliness that extends from the very young to the very u I Historic I II Park Ur 1 el ml I Park City Resort Parkwest old. One of the most popular gathering spots in town is the post office on Main Street, where locals and visitors stop to trade stories or give advice and a warm hello. From that Main Street vantage point, you can see everything from an old miner's shack to modern mod-ern brick architecture; a skibum to a real estate agent; a beat up VW next to a Mercedes. There's something in Park City for everyone. Great recreation, quality accommodations, a wide variety of restaurants, historical architecture, unlimited investment invest-ment opportunitiesa great place to escape to. And though the city is growing in leaps and bounds, there's still not a single stoplight, another reminder that you're not in the big city. With uncrowded interstate highways leading to it and an international in-ternational airport just 40 minutes mi-nutes away Park City is easy to get to. But once you're here, you'll find that it's a hard place to leave. I Citv X |