Just for Kids
Photography: Courtesy of Resorts
MAKE A SPLASH
Park City Racquet Club, 1200 Little Kate Road, offers a lap pool for more serious swimmers and a leisure pool complete with slide and lazy river for family fun. Drop in rates for visitors are $4 for children and $9 for adults. 435.615.5400.
Silver Mountain Sports Club, 2080 Gold Dust Lane, has two outdoor pools: a junior Olympic-size lap pool and a six-inch entry leisure pool that boasts a lazy river and a 60-foot water slide. Daily rates for visitors are $9 for children and $18 for adults. 435.649.6670.
Jordanelle Reservoir, accessed via Highway 40 (about 20 minutes from Park City), offers 3,050 surface acres of water for swimming, fishing and boating and a protected swimming area. 435.649.9540.
SCREAMING FOR ICE CREAM?
Cow’s is located at 402 Main Street and comes complete with a giant black and white cow.
Cold Stone Creamery has two locations, one adjacent to Starbucks at 1700 Park Avenue and the other at 6030 N. Market Street (Redstone Shopping Center next to the movie theater).
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, 510 Main Street, serves up an array of ice cream flavors in addition to endless chocolate treats.
Main Street Deli, 525 Main Street, offers ice cream and frozen yogurt in addition to breakfast and lunch items.
La Niche, 401 Main Street, serves ice cream cones at the counter in the back.
FIVE KID-WORTHY ADVENTURES
1. Zip, slide or putt at Park City Mountain Resort. Choose from the ZipRider (propelling adventurous types 2,300 feet at a height of 110 feet); the winding alpine slide; the sky jumper trampoline; a climbing wall; or miniature golf.
The Little Miner’s Park caters to young ones with a merry-go-round, kiddy car ride and choo-choo train. 435.649.8111.
2. Soak in the spirit of “The Games” at Utah Olympic Park. Watch a freestyle aerials show (on Saturdays, ski jumpers launch into the air, accomplishing amazing acrobatics before landing in the splash pool), tour the park, check out the Alf Engen Museum, the 2002 Eccles Olympic Museum or catch some athletes in training. Plus, there’s a bobsled ride (on wheels), a heart-stopping zip line and an alpine slide. Freestyle camps and one-day sessions are also available. 435.658.4200.
3. Sign up for summer day camp. Choose from a number of programs, featuring everything from arts to outdoor hikes and games: Park City Recreation (435.615.5401); Deer Valley’s Summer Adventure Camp (435.645.6648); Kimball Art Center (435.649.8882); The Canyons (435.649.5400); Adventure Camps at Utah Olympic Park and other 2002 Olympic venues (435.658.4208); Summer Youth Programs with the Norwegian Outdoor Exploration Center (435.649.5322); and Park City Discovery Camps (geared toward teenage girls, 435.513.3241).
4. Pack a picnic and dance or kick back as local bands perform free concerts from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesdays at Deer Valley Resort’s Outdoor Amphitheater. Wells Fargo Park City Performing Arts Foundation Wednesday Concerts run from mid-June through August, 435.655.8252.
5. Take a hike (or a ride). Pick up a Mountain Trails Foundation map at a local sports shop or bookstore and head for the hills. Consider lift-served hiking, biking or scenic riding at any of our three resorts or drop in for a ride with Young Riders (435.659.1188). Mountain Trails Foundation: 435.649.6839.
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