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It’s prime powder season at these under-the-radar Utah resorts
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Due to an abundance of latest snow storms, Utah is having one among its greatest begins to the ski season in many years. Ski Utah stories that every one 15 of the state’s ski resorts are charting massive snow stats, which implies the canyons are positive to be filled with guests from close to and much.
In case you discover issues getting a bit crowded on the mountainside, now could be a good time to enterprise out to a few of Utah’s under-the-radar resorts.
Ranging from north to south, here is an excellent sampling of ski spots and cities which might be positive to steal your coronary heart this season.
Logan
Up close to the highest step of Utah within the Bear River Mountains sit two cozy resorts. On the northeast face, you may discover the longest repeatedly run family-owned mountain resort in America: Beaver Mountain. It’s a true locals’ favourite, however it’s removed from quaint: You may be working with 828 acres and 1,700 vertical ft.
On the opposite facet of the vary sits the youthful Cherry Peak. Additionally family-run, the 400-acre resort is rising as a whole winter recreation vacation spot full with tubing, night time snowboarding and ice skating. Accordingly, the close by metropolis of Logan, a school city residence to Utah State College, deserves an honorable point out within the class of hottest ski cities in Utah.
Ogden
Do not let Ogden be an afterthought. This Northern Utah metropolis maintains excessive requirements on the slopes whereas protecting issues chill downtown. Snowbasin Resort hosted the 2002 Olympic Downhill, boasts 2,900 ft of vertical snowboarding throughout 3,000 acres and, as a bonus, provides a few of the state’s most interesting restrooms. The Ikon Go-participating Snowbasin has not provided on-mountain lodging — however by 2024–2025, the world-famous journey firm Membership Med will convey 300 rooms to the resort.
Till then, you may discover loads of lodging in Ogden and some boutique choices up the canyon within the Ogden Valley. Right here, three fingers of Pineview Reservoir unfold out icily throughout the basin and the 450 acres of family-friendly Nordic Valley Resort peer out from the east face of the Wasatch.
Ogden’s downtown bustles with eating places, bars and outlets, but it is compact sufficient to really feel prefer it could possibly be picked up and tucked right into a mountain canyon. Because it’s solely a 30-minute drive from downtown Ogden to 3 separate resorts, guests can get pleasure from nearly 12,000 acres of ski and snowboard terrain plus the facilities of a metropolis with precise issues to do exterior of snowboarding. Off the mountain, uncover this ski city’s vigorous twenty fifth Road (and adjoining neighborhoods), which boasts turn-of-the-century structure. It is one among Utah’s most well-known streets and you will be glad you saved power to get pleasure from it. (Until you diverted that power to fats biking at Snowbasin, snowmobiling at Monte Cristo, Nordic snowboarding at North Fork Park and lots extra out of doors recreation choices.)
Named after Utah’s well-known “Biggest Snow on Earth,” Powder Mountain’s 8,464 skiable acres make it the biggest in North America. Nonetheless, 500 of these acres are solely accessible by way of skicats, so for those who’re a lift-only skier, you may must accept 7,957 acres. Nonetheless, that acreage — mixed with backcountry snowboarding, classes and 500 inches of annual snowfall — will whip you into critical snowboarding form earlier than the season’s by means of.
Beaver
Heading south from Salt Lake, it is a three-hour drive to the lesser-known Eagle Level Resort close to Beaver, whose 650 acres circulation throughout Utah’s third-highest mountain vary, the Tushars. You may additionally get pleasure from snowcats, night time snowboarding, a terrain park and high-elevation, resort-based solitude. However observe: exterior of the vacation season, Eagle Level is open Friday by means of Monday.
Brian Head
It is one other half-hour south to the ski resort that mixes Utah’s two best-loved experiences — crimson rock landscapes and powder snowboarding! Brian Head Resort has Utah’s highest resort base, the place issues are simply getting began at 9,600 ft. Discover 650 acres throughout two mountains and soak up the views into Cedar Breaks Nationwide Monument. The city of Brian Head can also be three hours from Las Vegas, 90 minutes from St. George and a mere 40 minutes up the mountain from Cedar Metropolis.
Your new favourite ski spot awaits
Wherever you’re in Utah, you are not removed from world-class snowboarding choices. These under-the-radar resorts may simply grow to be your new favourite winter playgrounds. So, what are you ready for? Seize your gear and hit the slopes!
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Utah Highway Patrol responds to your suggestions on making Utah roads safer
SALT LAKE CITY — FOX 13 News is Driven to Change and that includes bringing you reports on important topics like road rage, construction, and wrong-way drivers. During our coverage, we continually ask for any questions or concerns you may have along Utah’s roadways.
The feedback has gotten an enormous response, so FOX 13 sat down with Lieutenant Cameron Roden on Good Day Utah to help address input we have been getting, from the perspective of Utah Highway Patrol.
Speeding in Utah, there’s so much of it, and then you can sometimes say that that leads to tailgating, which may lead to road rage incidents. What are you seeing out there in terms of speed and what can we do to lessen the effects of that?
Lt. Cameron Roden: Speed is our number one thing that we see. That’s our number one traffic stop that we make, and we know that it leads to the majority of crashes in the state of Utah. So we definitely put an emphasis on speed and it does lead to other things. Not just crashes. It leads to road rage and other things .So, as far as what changes can we make, we need to start with ourselves, and really say, ‘Hey, do I have a problem?’ You know, we just need to start with ourselves and not think that it’s something else’s problem. If we slow our speeds ourselves, and then it’ll start to to catch on and people will do that speed limit. So, but the legislature has definitely taken some steps to help us address, especially the the speeds that are those excessive speeds where we have that one zero five law now that addresses those speeds and increases fines and and hopefully discourages people from those extreme speeds.
Some of our viewers talked about maybe capping some of the speed limits for truck drivers. Is that something that’s even feasible?
You know, that would be something that would have to go through that, that legislative process to see whether we that would be something that would help. But ultimately, if we we start with ourselves, hopefully that will make that change and reduce crashes and fatalities.
There are things being done to try and intervene and stop wrong-way drivers before they happen. But some of our viewers propose things like spikes. What are your thoughts on implementing something like that?
We’ve had over the last several years, a rash of wrong-way drivers, and it’ll come in onesie twos, and then we’ll go for a period of time without that. And so, but this spike over the last couple of years has caused us to to create a task force to look at wrongly driving what things can be done. And so getting all these stakeholders together between UDOT and Highway Safety, looking at what technologies and things that could be implemented, and and things like, wrong way detection cameras. Those are some things that are being actually used in the state of Utah right now to help us spot those and and advance signage, getting people to realize they’re going the wrong way and turn around. The the spike strips have actually been talked about in our task force a little bit. And if something like that would even be, it is that technology available right now. And as what we could actually implement in the state of Utah, there’s nothing that really fits the bill right now because of our environment. We have our snow plows. We have snow and things like that. Something like that really wouldn’t be practical right now.
Probably the most talked about topic that we’ve received was distracted driving, texting while driving. You went out, I saw on the UHP social media page, that you guys just driving and you look to your right and left and you can find someone texting. What kind of enforcement do we have against distracted driving specifically on your phone?
This is something that we like you said, we see it every day. We go out to crashes,and and we may suspect that a driver may be distracted. And so, it’s something that’s definitely under-reported. It’s it’s a bigger problem than than the numbers really show.And so not only do we address it during our normal patrols.Our officers are seeing it, and addressing it while they’re out there.But we’ll also do targeted patrols where the highway safety office actually gives out additional funds for that targeted enforcement, where we’ll get an unmarked vehicle. We go out driving down the roads where we try to spot these vehicles and and get them stopped because those are those are a big danger on our roadways where our attention and our focus needs to be on driving.
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“These aircraft are extremely fast compared to our other aircraft,” said Col. Patrick.
On Saturday, the Utah National Guard took their new Apache helicopters for a spin.
“The flight went better than we could have hoped for. A little weather on the east coast, but after that, it wasn’t bad at all,” Patrick said.
The first four of 24 Apaches arrived early Saturday morning after they went under full inspection.
“They’ve got software on there that it’s like playing a video game. You just fly the video game and the airplane… is fast and smooth, which is the good thing, and so it’ll just hold the altitude and airspeed and just keep on trucking along. It’s pretty good,” Patrick said.
The first Apache helicopters arrived in Utah back in 1992.
“It just continues the legacy of the air pirates and what we bring to not only Utah, but really to the global fight and security, really,” Patrick added.
The colonel calls it a major step forward.
“What a great day for Utah as we advance into the next couple decades of combat operations and what we can provide to, you know, the global security.”
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