Park City Attractions

Quinn's Recreation Complex in downtown Park City features an indoor, Olympic-sized skating rink. You can show off your latest double lutz or triple axel on the large, gleaming sheet of ice. There's even enough room to attempt the challenging quadruple salchow, but most of us are simply content staying upright and looking reasonably skilled. Skating rentals, locker rooms for changing and food are all available.

Take a break from skiing, and return to the good old days when travel was accomplished with the help of our four-legged friends. All Seasons Adventures leads hour-long dog-sledding trips through a dense forest at the base of the Wasatch Range. The well-trained Siberian huskies will turn left, right, and stop on a dime at your command.

While Park City Mountain Resort was home to the snowboarding events in the 2002 Winter Olympics and caters to the boarding and advanced skiing contingents, Deer Valley is one of the few remaining ski areas that does not allow snowboarding. They also limit the amount of skiers to 5,000 a day maximum. The third ski area in Park City, The Canyons, is one of the largest ski resorts in the country -- ideal for everyone, from novice to intermediate.

With lighted snow-tubing offered every night until 8 p.m., Gorgoza Park is the perfect apres-ski hot spot for children. The Park offers three lifts to service all tubing lanes, from beginner to advanced. Children as young as 3 can hop in with mom and dad and scream their lungs out as they slide down the mountainside. An added bonus is mini-snowmobiling. Kids, ages 5 to 12, rev up the engines and take a spin around the oval course in these pint-sized cruisers.

A Town Lift escorts skiers from the slopes of Park City Mountain Resort straight down to Main Street in the heart of the historic Old Town district. Two- and four-story buildings -- some made of brick, others created from wood with second-floor verandahs that are reminiscent of bygone days -- line the street. It's easy to imagine a rowdy miner swinging out the doors of the No Name Saloon (447 Main Street), drunk and shooting his guns in the air like Yosemite Sam, only to be arrested by the local sheriff and thrown into the Territorial Jail. Both sites still exist, along with 62 additional buildings that made the National Register of Historic Places.

To truly get a sense of what it was like to be at the Olympics, take an hour-long tour of the Utah Olympic Park. Standing atop the platform of the 120K Ski Jump event and looking far down at the landing below, it's hard not to be impressed with those athletes (or crazed fools) who attempt this sport. Then there's the bobsled, where Olympians cruised the snakelike track at a record speed of 88 miles per hour, and the freestyle skiing venue, known for making skiers perform flips and twists in midair. All of these Olympic events are now available to adventurous families. Freestyle skiers can take their lumps on small jumps before they try the big one, wannabe bobsledders spend $65 for a ride that lasts a little more than one minute, and the next Eddie the Eagle can fly above Park City on the ski jump.