Sundance Resort

40.393333333333 - 111.58861111111Koordinaten: 40 ° 23 ' 36 "N, 111 ° 35' 19 " W

Sundance is the name of a ski area in the Wasatch Mountains of the U.S. state of Utah. The area lies on the eastern flank of Mount Timpanogos in Utah County and just is via Highway Utah -92 (also called the Alpine Loop Road) from U.S. Highway 189 or from American Fork Canyon reach.

The ski area was founded in the 1950s as Timp Haven Ski Area for the name of the mountain by a family originally Scottish immigrants. 1969 bought by the actor Robert Redford, the ski area and the associated extensive land and named it after his role names in the film Two bandits ( Original title: " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ), who had come to theaters in the same year. He is still the owner of the area.

The ski area has three main ski lifts and a shuttle lift with 44 slopes for all levels, as well as a small drag lift on the beginner slope. The area extends over approximately 650 m elevation between the valley station at 1860 m and the highest point of 2515 m on a ridge with the Bear Crest Lodge, a ski lodge. Addition, some 15 km of trails are maintained for cross-country skiing and 10 km of snowshoe walkers marked and controlled.

The associated Resort, also called Sundance is about two kilometers north of the ski area at around 1980 m and offers hotel and holiday accommodation.

Sundance is also the name of Redford founded the Sundance Institute, which organized in addition to the training of young filmmakers and the annual Sundance Film Festival. Institute and Festival have events in a ski resort, but their respective main town is about 50 km away, to the east of the Wasatch Mountains located Park City.