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Little Cottonwood Canyon: Ski Industry

Research guide for history and planning in Utah's Wasatch Mountains

Ski Areas

Little Cottonwood Canyon has two lift-served ski resorts, ski guide services, and terrain used by backcountry skiers. 

Ski Area Development

Statistics

Scholarly Research

Keith, John, Christopher Fawson, and Tsangyao Chang. "Recreation as an economic development strategy: Some evidence from Utah." Journal of Leisure Research 28, no. 2 (1996): 96-107.

Lazar, Brian, and M. Williams. "Potential impacts of climate change for US wasatch range ski areas: projections for park city mountain resort in 2030, 2050, and 2075." In Proceedings of the International Snow Science Workshop, pp. 436-443. 2010.

Naftz, David L., Leslie K. Kanagy, David D. Susong, Duane S. Wydoski, and Christopher J. Kanagy. Explosive-residue compounds resulting from snow avalanche control in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. USGS Water Resources Investigations 2003-4007. US Geological Survey,  2003.

Rugh, Susan Sessions. "Branding Utah: industrial tourism in the postwar American West." Western Historical Quarterly 37, no. 4 (2006): 445-472.

Silverton, Natalie A., Scott E. McIntosh, and Han S. Kim. "Avalanche safety practices in Utah." Wilderness & environmental medicine 18, no. 4 (2007): 264-270.

Wilkinson, Jay. "The new competing uses: balancing recreation with preservation in Utah's Wasatch mountains." J. Land Resources & Envtl. L. 24 (2004): 561.

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Ski History

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