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Leave your skis and snowboards at home! Park City, Utah has so much more to offer than the tired and worn traditional winter activities. Outdoor adventure has never been more exciting or more varied than in quaint and inviting Park City. Autumn or Winter, Park City provides spectacular views and amazing adventure for every intrepid vacationer!

When sparkling, powdery snow dots the picture perfect, sometime rugged landscape, work off all those holiday cookies and candy with a fantastic snowshoeing adventure through the picturesque Wasatch Mountains. Not just for Alaskan tundra, try your hand at driving a dog sled for a fun and unusual way to explore the backcountry without a lot of legwork. The whole family will enjoy Gorgoza Park's tubing hill complete with lifts as well as a special winter themed play area just for the little ones. Lace up those skates, take to the ice, and perfect your triple lutz or salchow in one of the area's superb skating rinks. Look out below! Gaze out over the jaw dropping beauty of glittering snow covered Park City while floating serenely and peacefully along in a colorful and vibrant hot air balloon!

It may be common knowledge that Park City holds remarkable winter activities, but somehow autumn in Park City has remained a well kept secretuntil now! The Wasatch Mountains hold a tremendous opportunity for outdoor thrills. Considered to be the home of one of the best mountain biking trail systems in the country, the Wasatch Mountain State Park and the Deer Valley Resort deliver terrific paths for the cyclist and some lifts as well. Enjoy the mountain view from horseback or be carried along by an age old Autumn tradition; the hay ride! Fly fishers will love the Provo River, with Brown Trout sometimes tipping the scale at ten pounds. Go for an eagle at Park City's gorgeous championship golf courses who offer terrific reduced Autumn rates. Clamber onto a toboggan style sled, racing around 4000 feet of exciting track that twists and zooms down the mountainside, not that youll have the time to admire the view!

Autumn through Winter, Park City tops the list for fabulous outdoor options. Mountain Biking or Dog Sledding, the possibilities seem endless. Visit Park City, Utah and have all the wonders of big momma nature right at your fingertips!

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