Park City Finally Wins Approval for Silverlode and Eagle Lift Upgrades

One of Park City’s worst chokepoints is finally slated for some relief.

One of the longest-running lift installation battles in American history seems to finally be coming to an end. Last week, Park City finally received approval from the Park City Planning Commission to move forward with two key lift upgrades: replacing the Silverlode six-person lift with a new eight-pack lift, with the goal of relieving mid-mountain lift lines, and replacing both the Eagle and Eaglet triple chairs with a single two-stage Eagle six-pack, providing a new high-speed lift route from Park City’s base. These installations have been planned since 2021, but Park City was forced to cancel their original replacements in 2022 after the Park City Planning Commission blocked them at the time.

A new timeline for the lifts has not been determined yet.

The Silverlode and Eagle lift replacements on Park City’s trail map, highlighted in red (with the Eagle mid-station denoted with a black dot).

Our Take

While no new timeline has been announced, it is a relief to see these projects finally cleared for installation. These lifts were designed to address problems at Park City that already existed five years ago, and they haven’t gotten any better since.

The Silverlode lift is one of the worst chokepoints at Park City, providing the only convenient access to upper-mountain Park City-side areas for Quicksilver gondola riders coming from the Canyons side. We imagine this capacity upgrade from a six to an eight-seater will go a way towards reducing lines. That said, we would go as far as to say an entirely new helper lift may be warranted to fully fix the situation.

The proposed Eagle six-pack, which replaces an existing triple chair, will provide a third high-speed lift route out from the Park City base. The upgrade should offer a more direct, desirable link to the King Con area, which we expect will pull crowds off the other two major lifts providing service out of the base village. In addition, the installation will finally restore direct lift service to the Eaglet pod, as that lift had already been decommissioned in 2021 in advance of the new lift’s installation.

Ultimately, we are looking forward to finally checking out these upgrades when they debut, almost certainly before the 2034 Olympics but likely well before then.

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