Trails at Park City, Utah
Summer 2010 - 53 photos
Summer 2010 - 53 photos
(Last updated November 2010)
Saturday the 24th of July, my daughter Cheryl invited some of us up to join her and Jack for a ride around the Park City area. Cheryl and Jack had been up there all week on vacation, and she said there were many paved trails. Bill and I drove up to meet them, as did my son Karl. We did a couple of different rides, one a short one at Kimball Junction where we got off of I-80. (I somehow lost those photos). Then we drove about half way on up to Park City, (look for the big white barn on the right, parking lot on the left), where a trail head splits into 4 trails running different ways. We rode up towards Park City, then turned to the east and found the Rail Trail (old rail line), that comes up from Echo through Coalville to Park City, 30 miles. Some of it is paved, though most of it running down through Coalville is not. From Park City it is all down hill, so after about 2˝ miles, we decided to turn back. When we got back to the car, Jack, Cheryl, and Karl had had enough at 12.45 miles of hills, so they left.
Bill and I thought we were made of tougher stuff and decided to cross under S-224 and take the other trail that ran up into Park City. The ride wasn't too bad until we got into town, then it got steeper and steeper until we were too tired to go any farther, so we went back down. When we got back near where the car was, I wanted to follow the trail on down toward Kimball Junction and back, but within a mile, I could see it was going to be too steep for the return, so we crossed over 224 and rode back up to the car. We definitely had enough riding by then, riding a total of 20.76 miles. Considering all the hills, it was enough.
For those that don't know, Park City, Utah, is an old mining town that turned into a ski resort and summer vacation town. There are many hotels, condo's, and shopping centers in the area.
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Later in the year I was getting ready to put the Park City excursion on my webpages, and realized that I didn't have pictures of the first trail we rode at Kimball Junction. I remember taking some, but somehow lost the first few from that day. And I didn't take a picture of the underpass that Bill and I took to get to the second trail we rode after the others left. I wanted these pictures for my webpage, So I went back up there November 5th to get some extra photos, and while there I decided to take the Park City Rail Trail up hill into Park City, something we didn't do on the earlier trip. It only went about 2 more miles, and is kind of steep in places. I don't think it followed the old rail line where I went this time, too steep.
On this trip I saw that SR-224 (Park Drive) has bike lanes painted along both sides, and also there is a paved trail starting a couple of blocks south of Kimball Junction, on the west side at Polar Way. It runs to the intersection of Bear Hollow Dr. on the west, Silver Springs Dr. on the east, then continues on the east side up to White Pine Canyon Dr. where it is paved on both sides the rest of the way up to Park City. Some parts of the lower trail are fairly steep.
On this trip I saw that SR-224 (Park Drive) has bike lanes painted along both sides, and also there is a paved trail starting a couple of blocks south of Kimball Junction, on the west side at Polar Way. It runs to the intersection of Bear Hollow Dr. on the west, Silver Springs Dr. on the east, then continues on the east side up to White Pine Canyon Dr. where it is paved on both sides the rest of the way up to Park City. Some parts of the lower trail are fairly steep.
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In July I used a Canon Powershot SD700 IS Digital Elph, 6 megapixel, with 4x optical and 4x digital zoom. In November I used a new Canon Powershot, SX210, 14 Megapixel Camera which has Image Stabilazation and lens from wide angle to 14x optical zoom.
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