Escapees May-June 2024

PHOTOS COURTESY OF PARK CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU

A short walk from the museum, you’ll fi nd the Town Lift, which offers unbelievable downtown access to Park City Mountain Resort’s summertime hiking and biking routes. Relaxed activities are also options. You can take a wild fl ower walk or watch the sunset, then ride the lift back down the mountain. Payday Lift also offers scenic and hiking access. Town Lift is at the foot of Main Street. From here, walk uphill to fi nd the majority of Park City’s bars, restaurants, shopping and art galleries. Artists shown here are some of the best in the country, and their work runs the gamut from pop art to traditional nature scenes and photography. The Park Silly Market On Sundays during June, July and September, Main Street is packed end to end with an open-air market and street festival. The Park Silly Sunday Market is a free event featuring regional arts and crafts, music and performance art, antiques, a farmer’s market, a beer garden and gourmet foods. Weekly attendance regularly reaches 15,000. “Everyone is invited,” says Kimberly Kuehn, who founded the market 18 years ago. “It’s a great day for free family fun. The market is purposefully for elderly, children in strollers or wagons and people with dogs. Everyone. It’s a weekend ritual.” Kuehn founded the market to transform a day that was typically very quiet. “We decided to do something to bring people to Main Street on Sunday, to get it exciting and start incubating businesses,” she says. More than 170 businesses have gotten their start with a booth at the market. In August, Main Street hosts the juried Kimball Arts Festival, which features approx imately 200 fi ne artists and craftsmen from around the nation, along with music, food and drink. This is a ticketed event. Mountain Biking Park City Mountain Resort is more than 10 miles across, so it needs two base areas: Park City on the south end and Canyons Village on the north. Nearly 75 lifts and gondolas pepper the mountainside, but only four of these remain in operation during the summer months.

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ESCAPEES Magazine May/June 2024