Deer Valley

Utah (Wasatch Back, Summit County), United States · 1,966–2,917 m

Vertical
951m(3,120 ft)
Pistes
202km(126 mi)
Lifts
31
Summit
2,917m(9,570 ft)
Day pass
from329 USD
Season
December – March

Trail map

Published by Deer Valley Resort (Alterra Mountain Company), panorama by Rad Smith; this copy via Deer Valley Resort. The current official map is at Deer Valley Resort (Alterra Mountain Company).

Routable 3D map

The whole lift and piste network of Deer Valley is routable in the app: difficulty limits, live lift and piste status, alternative ways to the same place, and a 3D view of the terrain.

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The verdict

Deer Valley is Alterra's ski-only resort in Park City, sold on the Ikon Pass, which roughly doubled in size for the 2025/26 season: 4,300 skiable acres across the original Empire and Flagstaff terrain plus the new East Village expansion, reached from a base near Jordanelle Reservoir by the 3-mile East Village Express Gondola. No snowboards have been allowed since it opened in 1981. It sits minutes from Park City Mountain in the same town, but the two resorts share no lift, run or pass.1234

Goes well for

  • Confident intermediates who want groomed mileage: 44% of the mapped terrain is intermediate, the largest of the three bands, spread across six connected peaks after the expansion.
  • Skiers who want a quiet lift line without a snowboard crowd: Deer Valley has capped daily skier numbers and banned snowboarding since it opened in 1981, one of only three US resorts that still does.
  • Families and first-timers who value service over steepness: ski valet, dedicated learning zones on five of the six mountains, and no lift-line jostling from riders.

Goes badly for

  • Budget skiers: a peak-day adult ticket ran $329 for 2025/26, among the highest in North America, and access requires a full-price Ikon Pass rather than the cheaper Ikon Base tier.
  • Snowboarders: banned resort-wide since opening, and neither a lift ticket nor an Ikon Pass bought for Deer Valley is any use on a board here.
  • Skiers chasing the steepest lift-served terrain in the Wasatch: the mapped split is only 21% difficult, and Deer Valley's hardest runs (Daly Chutes, the bump lines under Lady Morgan) are shorter and less committing than Park City Mountain's Jupiter Peak bowls or the Cottonwood Canyons resorts twenty minutes south.

Key facts

Every card opens. The headline number is the answer; underneath is how it was measured and where it came from.

Elevation 951m vertical · 1,966–2,917 m
Village1,966 m1
Lowest piste1,966 m1
Highest lift-served point2,917 m1
Vertical drop951 m

Deer Valley's own June 2026 Expanded Excellence update gives the resort-wide range as a 9,570 ft (2,917 m) summit at Empire Peak down to a 6,450 ft (1,966 m) low point, a 3,120 ft (951 m) vertical span. That low point is new: it belongs to the East Village base near Jordanelle Reservoir, opened with the 2025/26 expansion. The resort's long-standing FAQ page still cites the older Snow Park base figure of 6,570 ft (2,003 m), the historic entrance used before East Village existed, which is higher, not lower, and is now not the resort's lowest skiable point. Our own graph measurement of the connected network spans 1,964 to 2,918 m, within 2 m of the operator's East Village base and within 1 m of Empire Peak's published summit.

Pistes 202km measured, not marketed
5
  • Easy 72km 36%
  • Intermediate 90km 45%
  • Difficult 40km 20%

Marketed vs measuredDeer Valley publishes its terrain as 4,300+ skiable acres across 200+ trails rather than a piste-km figure. Skiresort.com's own measurement puts the network at about 202 km, split 72/90/40 km across easy, intermediate and difficult; that 35/44/21 split matches Wikipedia's infobox trail-count percentages exactly, though Deer Valley's own FAQ page separately states 27% of runs are beginner terrain, a figure that does not reconcile with either and may not yet reflect the expanded beginner terrain at East Village. OpenStreetMap records no separate Deer Valley ski area at all: one entry named Park City Mountain Resort covers 439 km and binds every lift in the district to it, Deer Valley's Empire, Ruby, Lady Morgan, Northside and Sultan chairs included, along with the whole East Village network near Jordanelle Reservoir, a separately owned resort on a different pass with no on-snow link to Park City Mountain. So the split is ours: each lift is assigned to the resort that operates it, from the two operators' own published rosters, and every piste to whichever side's lift network it lies nearest. The measured figures below therefore rest on a boundary we drew rather than one the data ships with. Two independent checks support it. The split keeps exactly the 31 named lifts Deer Valley operates for 2025/26 and drops all 38 of Park City Mountain's; and the network that remains spans 1,964 m to 2,918 m, within 2 m of the operator's own 1,966 m East Village base and within 1 m of Empire Peak's published 2,917 m summit.

Lifts 31 6 types in the fleet
  • High-speed quad 20
  • Fixed-grip triple 5
  • Gondola 2
  • High-speed six-pack 2
  • Fixed-grip double 1
  • Fixed-grip quad 1

Deer Valley's own count for 2025/26 is 31 lifts, and skiresort.com's independent listing of named lifts matches it exactly once two things are set aside: skiresort.com counts the East Village Express Gondola's two cable sections (base to the Big Dutch midstation, then on to Park Peak) as two separate gondolas rather than one, and its total of 41 also includes 8 magic-carpet conveyors and the Hail Peak Express quad, which is built but was not yet running for skiers in 2025/26. Wikipedia's infobox figure of 36 lifts is older, from before the 2025/26 build-out completed.6

Season December – March winter season
Winter seasonearly December – late March
Lift hours09:00–16:00
Day pass USD 329 adult, main season
AdultUSD 3297
YouthUSD
ChildUSD
Multi-resort passesIkon Pass: full adult pass $1,449 for 2025/26, unlimited Deer Valley access with no blackout dates; the cheaper Ikon Base Pass does not include Deer Valley.
Deer Valley Unlimited Pass (local, adult): from $4,100, unlimited access with no blackouts.
Deer Valley Select Pass (adult): from $3,270, seven-day access with peak-day blackouts only.
Deer Valley Midweek Pass (adult): from $2,145, Monday-Friday with peak-day blackouts.
Park City Mountain's Epic Pass does not work at Deer Valley, and Deer Valley's own passes do not cover Park City Mountain — the two resorts sit on opposite sides of the Epic/Ikon split.

Deer Valley uses dynamic, date-based pricing rather than one fixed rate; the operator's own ticket page does not publish a flat number. Industry press put the 2025/26 peak-day adult window price at $329, among the first Alterra-owned resorts (with Steamboat) to cross $300 for a single day.

The mountain

These figures come from measuring the resort's actual piste and lift network rather than from its brochure. Measured from the SkiAllDay routing graph on 8 September 2026. Where the resort publishes a figure of its own, that figure is the one shown.

Piste km per lift km

2.55

Piste km opened by each kilometre of lift line. It measures how sparse the lift network is, not how good it is: a high figure means long runs off few lifts, so more skiing between rides but more traversing and more people funnelled onto each lift; a low one means dense lift service, quick laps and short waits, at the cost of repeating the same runs.

measured

Lift minutes per ski hour

40 min

Time riding up for every hour spent descending, from the graph’s own traversal times.

measured

Longest continuous descent

7.7 km(4.8 mi)

we measure 9.1 km

The longest run of linked pistes that never rides a lift.

official

Reachable on easy runs only

28%

Share of piste a skier can reach from the base without ever descending something harder than an easy run.

measured

North-facing terrain

61%

Piste facing N, NE or NW, from the bearing of each descent. Shaded aspects hold snow longest.

measured

Vertical on that descent

891 m(2,923 ft)

measured

Uphill on surface lifts

1%

Share of climbing served by drag lifts and platters, weighted by vertical rather than by lift count.

measured

Piste above 2,500 m

45%

measured

Median piste altitude

2,465 m(8,087 ft)

Half the piste length lies above this height and half below, weighted by length.

measured

Mean piste gradient

22%

Length-weighted across every piste. Comparable between countries in a way that piste colour is not.

measured

Piste measured

182.7 km(114 mi)

measured

Lift length measured

71.5 km(44 mi)

measured
metres piste length in this band 1,750 2,000 2,250 2,500 2,750 3,000 1.5 km 74.7 km 104.3 km 4.9 km
Piste length by altitude band, against the villages and lift stations that sit at each height.

How steep is it, really

Piste colour is set by each resort under its own rules, so a red in one country is a blue in another. Measured gradient is comparable everywhere.

Share of piste length by gradient, measured along the run rather than at its steepest point.

Guide

Deer Valley skied as a compact, four-mountain resort for over four decades before the East Village expansion more than doubled it for 2025/26, adding four new peaks reached by a three-mile gondola from a new base near Jordanelle Reservoir.

Ski-only since 1981, and still ski-only through the expansion

Edgar and Polly Stern opened Deer Valley on December 26, 1981, with five chairlifts and 35 runs, built around a hospitality-first idea of skiing that included ski valets and on-mountain dining rather than just lift capacity. The resort has never allowed snowboarding, one of only three ski areas in the United States that still does not, and Alterra has stated it intends to stay ski-only through the East Village build-out rather than opening the new terrain to snowboarders.832

The East Village expansion, phased in since 2023

Alterra and developer Extell Development Company began building what was originally called Mayflower on land east of the existing resort, near Jordanelle Reservoir, with the first lifts and terrain opening in phases from the 2023/24 season. The centrepiece for 2025/26 is the East Village Express Gondola, a ten-passenger Doppelmayr line with a midstation at Big Dutch that carries skiers nearly three miles and about 2,570 vertical feet from the new East Village base up to Park Peak in roughly 15 minutes, officially opened February 3, 2026. Seven new chairlifts and nearly 80 new runs came with it, integrating Park Peak, Big Dutch Peak, Keetley Point and Pioche Point into the resort's lift network and taking skiable terrain from 2,026 to more than 4,300 acres.9610

Where the terrain sits

The mapped split across the enlarged resort is 35% easy, 44% intermediate and 21% difficult. The steepest lift-served terrain remains on the original mountains: Daly Bowl and Daly Chutes off the Sultan Express, and the bump lines under the Lady Morgan Express. The new East Village peaks lean toward long intermediate cruisers, including the 4.8-mile Green Monster run from the top of Park Peak down to the East Village base, currently Deer Valley's longest.536

Next door to Park City Mountain, not connected to it

Deer Valley sits a few minutes away by road from Park City Mountain, in the same town, but there is no on-snow route between them. Vail Resorts owns Park City Mountain and sells it on the Epic Pass; Alterra owns Deer Valley and sells it on the Ikon Pass. Park City Mountain also allows snowboarding across its whole terrain, unlike Deer Valley.43

Snow and season

Deer Valley depends on natural snowfall, averaging about 300 in (762 cm) a year, plus snowmaking across its 1,966 to 2,917 m range. The 2025/26 season opened December 6, 2025 and closed March 29, 2026.21112

SkierVerdictWhy
Confident intermediate excellent The East Village expansion added long, groomed cruisers like the 4.8-mile Green Monster off Park Peak, giving a strong intermediate several new full days of terrain that did not exist before the 2025/26 season.610
Family excellent Deer Valley built its identity on hospitality rather than raw terrain: ski valet, capped daily skier numbers, and dedicated children's programs at both the Snow Park and East Village bases.8
First-timer good Dedicated learning terrain sits on five of the resort's six mountains rather than one crowded beginner slope, and the absence of snowboarders on the same runs is something first-time skiers repeatedly notice.2
Second-week skier good 44% of the mapped terrain is intermediate, the largest of the three bands, and it is now spread across six connected peaks rather than the original four.5
Advanced or expert skier fair Only 21% of the mapped terrain is graded difficult, and Deer Valley's steepest runs, Daly Bowl and Daly Chutes off the Sultan Express and the bumps under Lady Morgan, are shorter and less committing than Park City Mountain's Jupiter Peak bowls a few minutes away.53
Snowboarder poor Snowboarding has been prohibited resort-wide since Deer Valley opened in 1981, and Alterra has said the ski-only policy continues through the East Village expansion.23
Budget skier poor A 2025/26 peak-day adult ticket ran $329, one of the highest single-day prices in North America, and season-long access requires the full-price Ikon Pass rather than a cheaper regional or base tier.7

By car

From Salt Lake City International Airport, Deer Valley is about 41 miles, roughly 45 to 50 minutes outside of storms or rush hour. Most routes run east on I-80 through Parley's Canyon, then either south on UT-224 into Park City for the original Snow Park, Silver Lake and Empire Pass base areas, or continuing on US-40 for the newer East Village base near Jordanelle Reservoir. Winter storms can add 20 to 30 minutes.

By train

There is no direct passenger rail to Deer Valley. Amtrak's California Zephyr calls at Salt Lake City, from where the same road transfer applies.

Where to base yourself

Snow Park baseThe original 1981 base area at 2,003 m, closest to Park City's Main Street
Deer Valley East Village 10 kmThe new base near Jordanelle Reservoir off US-40, opened with the 2025/26 expansion at 1,966 m, the resort's lowest point
Salt Lake City International Airport 66 kmAbout 41 miles by road via I-80 and UT-224 or US-40, 45 to 50 minutes outside storms
  • Empire Canyon Grill

    Empire Canyon Lodge · 2,453 m

    Cafeteria-style stop with soups, chilies, panini and fresh-baked goods, plus outdoor decks looking over Daly Bowl and the Chutes.2

  • Royal Street Café

    Silver Lake Lodge · 2,545 m

    Sit-down lunch spot at the mid-mountain Silver Lake base, alongside the higher-end Mariposa in the same building.2

What skiers say

Gathered from public discussions, last swept 8 September 2026. Every tip links to the thread it came from.

  • On holiday or storm-disruption days, aim to be in the Snow Park lot by about 08:45; a January 2024 r/skiing thread reported the main lot full by 09:30 and a 15-minute Empire singles line.13

    A January 2024 r/skiing thread ('Lines at Deer Valley?') describes the reservation cap thinning queues without removing them, and notes that Cottonwood canyon delays push Salt Lake skiers over to Park City on exactly the days it is busiest.

  • Avoid Quincy on busy mornings by taking Red Cloud, Mountain Daisy or Lily, and Northside Express toward Flagstaff; later, use Crown Point instead of Homestake and Red Cloud toward Silver Strike instead of Quincy.1415

    Two r/DeerValley threads from February 2026 identify Quincy as the morning choke point and Ruby, Homestake, and Crown Point as the afternoon return crunch; one poster adds that Red Cloud can connect directly toward Lady Morgan.

  • Do not start at East Village if your priority is first tracks on Empire or the legacy mountain; park in town and bus to Empire Pass, or begin from Snow Park.16

    A January 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('Is East Village Gondola opening before 9?') reports the gondola not uploading early: a 09:00 departure reached Park Peak around 09:15, while Silver Lake Express commonly started earlier.

  • Check Empire's posted closing time before committing to a final Boundary Woods or Daly-area lap because Empire closes earlier than the main mountain.17

    A snowHeads trip report ('TR - Deer Valley, deep soft snow in the glade') describes patrol beginning its sweep after the last Empire chair unloaded, forcing a work-back toward Flagstaff and Bald Mountain.

  • From Salt Lake City or Heber, use East Village to bypass Park City traffic, but budget roughly 30–35 minutes from parking to Park Peak rather than treating it as instant slope access.1819

    A January 2026 r/UTsnow trip report ('Buttman's 1/30/26 Deer Valley Trip Report') parked at 08:45, lost 5–10 minutes to the parking shuttle and was up top by about 09:20; a March 2026 r/UTsnow thread has a local who prefers East Village after fresh snow and skis across to the older terrain.

  • If arriving around 10:00 on a snowy Saturday, skip Snow Park and target East Village or the Richardson Flat park-and-ride.20

    A February 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('How easy are the green runs on the east side?') expected Snow Park to be at capacity by mid-morning on a snowy Saturday, while East Village users in the same thread reported substantially easier parking.

  • With a valid physical Ikon Pass and a Deer Valley reservation, go directly to the lift rather than wasting time at a ticket window.21

    A December 2024 r/Ikonpass thread ('Deer Valley with Ikon') has several respondents confirming direct-to-lift access on a physical pass; the same thread puts most public parking at Snow Park, with Jordanelle the closer option for anyone lodging on that side.

  • When staying along Deer Valley Drive, use the free Park City buses instead of driving to Snow Park, particularly if you also need an off-resort rental shop.22

    A February 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('Coming to DV in March') describes frequent bus stops the length of Deer Valley Drive, and adds that guests of eligible Deer Valley lodging may also have the DV Direct shuttle.

  • For serious terrain, go straight to Empire and Lady Morgan: Daly Chute 10 is the comparatively approachable chute, while Chute 5 and the air-dependent entrance to Chute 6 are substantially more committing.2324

    A March 2024 r/skiing thread and a February 2026 r/UTsnow thread ('Deer Valley & Snowbird Runs to challenge myself') also single out Daly Bowl, X-Files, Centennial, Rattler, Triangle Trees and Mayflower Bowl; the later Daly chutes and X-Files cost a 10–15-minute traverse or hike and hold snow well because of it.

  • After a storm, hunt Boundary Woods off Empire, the woods beneath Ruby Express, Triangle Woods, and the mostly wooded terrain from Lady Morgan instead of joining the groomer traffic.1725

    The same snowHeads trip report and a February 2024 r/skiing thread ('Deer Valley is a surprisingly good value') both describe soft snow surviving in these glades after the open pistes had gone tracked or firm. Boundary Woods is not obvious on the map, so get the entrance landmarks from a host before looking for it.

  • On a freeze-thaw day, ski Empire first and let Mayflower soften for the afternoon; immediately after fresh snow, reverse the urgency because Mayflower gets chopped and sun-affected quickly.2627

    A December 2022 r/UTsnow thread ('Most technical areas at DV?') and a December 2019 r/skiing post agree that Ontario Bowl needs a recent substantial storm and bakes quickly, though its short hike keeps powder there after easier-reached terrain is tracked out.

  • In fog or flat light, move from exposed groomers into the Empire, Flagstaff, or Lady Morgan glades, where trees provide better visual definition.17

    A snowHeads party reported vertigo on open runs but good visibility and deep snow in the woods; Triangle Woods is large and quiet enough that partners should remain close and carry a whistle.

  • For an intermediate progression from Snow Park, warm up on Last Chance into Success, then try wide Hawkeye, Bluebell, or Lady of the Lake before moving to steeper double blues.1528

    Two February 2026 threads, one in r/DeerValley and one in r/skiing ('Deer Valley run suggestions?'), call Ontario, Homeward Bound and Success dependable but busy arteries, and Lady of the Lake broad and mellow — though lapping it needs an extra feeder lift back to Keetley Express.

  • A tentative blue skier returning to Jordanelle should download the gondola rather than ski Jordanelle, whose double-blue descent contains several genuinely steep pitches.29

    A March 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('How Hard is Jordanelle?') puts the gondola download at about eight minutes and treats it as the safer end-of-day option for anyone who struggles on steeper blue terrain.

  • Use Deer Valley's free parking, daytime ski check, and overnight ski-and-boot storage instead of paying for equivalent hotel or locker services.25

    A February 2024 r/skiing thread ('Deer Valley is a surprisingly good value') found all three genuinely free, though storage locations and availability are worth confirming for the current season.

  • At Empire Lodge, the Natural Buffet small plate and the panini counter have been the strongest lunch-value plays, with the panini specifically reported to avoid the usual line.30

    A January 2025 r/UTsnow thread ('Deer Valley. Where to eat?') put the small plate at about $15 and said it could be piled high; prices and availability may have moved since.

  • Treat Deer Valley turkey chili as a late-day meal rather than fuel for hard afternoon laps because several fans say it is unusually filling.3031

    Opinion divides sharply between a January 2025 r/UTsnow thread and a February 2024 r/skiing thread on mountain food: some call the chili the resort's must-order dish, others say the recipe has declined and is overpriced for what it is.

  • For cheaper rentals, ride Silver Lake Express as a foot passenger to Christy Sports at Silver Lake or drive five minutes to Jans, but rent on-site when children are in lessons and may need rapid equipment adjustments.22

    A February 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('Coming to DV in March - best place to rent skis for kids?') has one family told that Silver Lake Express commonly loads around 08:30, letting them store boots in the lodge basement for a 09:15–09:30 start; instructors in the same thread warn that off-site equipment problems eat into lesson time.

  • Reserve Deer Valley in the Ikon system before skiing; do not assume limited Ikon days work like Alta's unrestricted scan-and-deduct access.3233

    A January 2024 r/Ikonpass thread ('Forgot to reserve days at Deer Valley') and a December 2023 one ('I skied deer valley today without making a reservation...') both describe scanning through without a reservation and then getting a warning threatening suspension. Refreshing for cancellations is the sensible tactic when a date shows full.

  • Do not buy the Learning Area ticket expecting access to ordinary green runs such as Success; it is essentially for the Snow Park carpets and very short Trainer terrain.3435

    A September 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('Deer Valley Learning Area Ticket') and a December 2024 r/parkcityvisitors thread establish that it covers neither Homestake nor Quincy, and that Silver Lake Express functions mainly as transport up to Silver Lake Lodge and back down.

  • Do not bring a snowboard: Deer Valley remains ski-only and lift staff will not admit snowboarders.3637

    A December 2022 r/skiing thread and a December 2023 r/snowboarding one confirm the policy is enforced at the lift rather than merely stated; it applies to the newer East Village terrain too, which is operated as part of Deer Valley.

  • Do not trust a grooming symbol alone in lean or thaw-freeze conditions; inspect the live surface early, especially on Flagstaff and shaded East Village runs.18

    A January 2026 r/UTsnow trip report ('Buttman's 1/30/26 Deer Valley Trip Report') found the grooming report unreliable, Flagstaff pistes sometimes ungroomed despite the symbol, and shaded runs scraped off within an hour on a day that was not otherwise busy.

  • Before dropping toward East Village, verify McHenry and the return lifts are operating and leave enough energy for the long trip back to your car.2038

    A February 2026 r/DeerValley thread ('How easy are the green runs on the east side?') and a January 2026 one ('Easy route to new area from Snow Park base') note that McHenry has a short steeper section beginners can bypass via Sultan Connection and Little Giant, that Green Monster is longer with blind crossings, and that downloading the gondola is the fallback for tired legs.

History

  1. 1981

    Deer Valley opens on December 26 with five chairlifts and 35 runs, developed by Edgar and Polly Stern on a hospitality-first model that included ski valets and on-mountain dining.83

  2. 2002

    Deer Valley hosts the freestyle skiing (moguls, aerials) and alpine slalom events of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.3

  3. 2017

    KSL Capital Partners and Henry Crown & Company's Aspen Skiing Co. acquire Deer Valley on August 21, folding it into the company later named Alterra Mountain Company.4

  4. 2024

    The International Olympic Committee confirms Salt Lake City-Utah as host of the 2034 Winter Games; Deer Valley is named the venue for freestyle skiing moguls and aerials.39

  5. 2025

    Seven new chairlifts and nearly 80 new runs open for the 2025/26 season, including the East Village Express Gondola, taking Deer Valley from 2,026 to more than 4,300 skiable acres across ten peaks.610

Nearby and comparable

  • Park City Mountain 5 km

    A few minutes away by road in the same town, but a separate resort owned by Vail Resorts and sold on the Epic Pass, with no on-snow link to Deer Valley and no ban on snowboarding.

  • Snowbird

    In Little Cottonwood Canyon, about 45 minutes away; deeper average snowfall and steeper tram-served terrain, on the Ikon Pass like Deer Valley.

  • Alta

    Snowbird's ski-only neighbour in the same canyon, and Deer Valley's closest match in policy though independent of Alterra's pass system.

  • Brighton

    In Big Cottonwood Canyon, a lower-priced, lower-key alternative that does allow snowboarding, with a strong night-skiing program.

Questions

Does Deer Valley allow snowboarding in 2025/26?

No. Deer Valley has prohibited snowboarding resort-wide since it opened in 1981, one of only three ski areas in the United States that still does, and Alterra has said the policy continues through the East Village expansion completed for 2025/26.23

Is Deer Valley connected to Park City Mountain?

No. They sit a few minutes apart by road in the same town, but Deer Valley is owned by Alterra Mountain Company and sold on the Ikon Pass, while Park City Mountain is owned by Vail Resorts and sold on the Epic Pass. There is no on-snow connection between them.43

What is the East Village expansion at Deer Valley?

East Village is a new base area near Jordanelle Reservoir, reached from Deer Valley's original terrain by the East Village Express Gondola, a nearly three-mile, ten-passenger Doppelmayr line with a midstation at Big Dutch. It opened in phases from the 2023/24 season, with seven new chairlifts and nearly 80 new runs completing for 2025/26 and taking the resort from 2,026 to more than 4,300 skiable acres.96

What does a lift ticket cost at Deer Valley?

Deer Valley uses dynamic, date-based pricing rather than one fixed rate. Industry press put the 2025/26 peak-day adult window price at $329. Season-long access requires the full-price Ikon Pass, which cost $1,449 for an adult in 2025/26; the cheaper Ikon Base Pass does not include Deer Valley.7

How many piste kilometers does Deer Valley have, and how much of it is easy?

Skiresort.com measures about 202 km of piste at Deer Valley, split roughly 72 km easy, 90 km intermediate and 40 km difficult, a 35/44/21 split that matches Wikipedia's trail-count percentages across the resort's 200-plus runs.53

What is Deer Valley's longest run?

The Green Monster, a 4.8-mile (7.7 km) descent from the top of Park Peak down to the East Village base, opened as part of the 2025/26 expansion and is currently the resort's longest continuous run.6

References

Every claim on this page carries a numbered marker linking here, and every reference links back to the passages that used it. Numbers not yet checked against a source are marked like this.

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  2. 2. ^ a b c d e f g h Frequently Asked QuestionsDeer Valley Resort (Alterra Mountain Company) · read 8 September 2026
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  5. 5. ^ a b c d e Ski resort Deer Valley — dataSkiresort Service International · read 8 September 2026
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  9. 9. ^ a b Deer Valley Celebrates New East Village Express GondolaDeer Valley Resort (Alterra Mountain Company) · 2026-01 · read 8 September 2026
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  17. 17. ^ a b c TR - Deer Valley, deep soft snow in the gladesnowHeads forum · read 8 September 2026
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  22. 22. ^ a b Coming to DV in March - best place to rent skis for kids?r/DeerValley · 2026-02 · read 8 September 2026
  23. 23. ^ Genuinely funny how Deer Valley is mellow for like 97% of its terrain, and the other 3% are the Daly Chutes that give you some of the steepest terrain in Utahr/skiing · 2024-03 · read 8 September 2026
  24. 24. ^ Deer Valley & Snowbird Runs to challenge myselfr/UTsnow · 2026-02 · read 8 September 2026
  25. 25. ^ a b Deer Valley is a surprisingly good valuer/skiing · 2024-02 · read 8 September 2026
  26. 26. ^ Most technical areas at DV?r/UTsnow · 2022-12 · read 8 September 2026
  27. 27. ^ Christmas Day at Deer Valleyr/skiing · 2019-12 · read 8 September 2026
  28. 28. ^ Deer Valley run suggestions?r/skiing · 2026-02 · read 8 September 2026
  29. 29. ^ How Hard is Jordanelle?r/DeerValley · 2026-03 · read 8 September 2026
  30. 30. ^ a b Deer Valley. Where to eat?r/UTsnow · 2025-01 · read 8 September 2026
  31. 31. ^ Where do you think has the best and worst mountain food??r/skiing · 2024-02 · read 8 September 2026
  32. 32. ^ Forgot to reserve days at Deer Valleyr/Ikonpass · 2024-01 · read 8 September 2026
  33. 33. ^ I skied deer valley today without making a reservation...r/Ikonpass · 2023-12 · read 8 September 2026
  34. 34. ^ Deer Valley Learning Area Ticketr/DeerValley · 2026-09 · read 8 September 2026
  35. 35. ^ Deer valley beginners pass questionr/parkcityvisitors · 2024-12 · read 8 September 2026
  36. 36. ^ This is what happens to snowboarders at Deer Valleyr/skiing · 2022-12 · read 8 September 2026
  37. 37. ^ Thoughts on this?r/snowboarding · 2023-12 · read 8 September 2026
  38. 38. ^ Easy route to new area from Snow Park baser/DeerValley · 2026-01 · read 8 September 2026
  39. 39. ^ 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Confirmed for Salt Lake City-UtahDeer Valley Resort (Alterra Mountain Company) · 2024-07 · read 8 September 2026

Page last updated 8 September 2026.

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