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Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan
Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Snowbird
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Snowbird.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Snowbird is an unincorporated community in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
Mining became a large local industry, and Little Cottonwood Canyon became one of the largest producers of silver ore in the Wasatch Mountains.
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1971
A route reaches Snowbird
Snowbird opened in December 1971, using the road through Little Cottonwood Canyon to connect a former mining landscape with a purpose-built ski resort.
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Snowbird Upper Middle and Lower Cirque photo Don Ramey Logan
Snowbird Upper Middle and Lower Cirque photo Don Ramey Logan. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Snowbird Upper Middle and Lower Cirque photo Don Ramey Logan
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
1971
Winter becomes organised
It is most famous for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, an alpine skiing and snowboarding area, which opened in December 1971.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Snowbird is recorded at 40.583° N, 111.656° W. Its catalogue reference reaches 3,353 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan
Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
TODAY
Snowbird now
Snowbird is known for its particularly challenging terrain, with most ski runs having a difficulty of "intermediates only" or higher.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Snowbird Resort Cottonwood Canyon Utah photo Don Ramey Logan
AOD.US.SNOWBIRD.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Snowbird Upper Middle and Lower Cirque photo Don Ramey Logan
AOD.US.SNOWBIRD.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Snowbird, Utah overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.