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Park City is B grade celebrity in most parts of the U.S.A. When I tell people I’m from Park City, I get that nose-scrunched, brow-furrowed and ultimately concerned expression that says “why don’t I know why I know that name?” Part of the confusion can be blamed on the fact that this city gets around; for something as indecisive about its celebrity identity as Madonna, its no wonder its fans run the gamut of people genres. First you get the skiers. When it comes to skiing, Park City is to Aspen as other Peruvian ruins are to Machu Pichu; equally beautiful but not as popular and with names that never seem to stick. Second, you get the arty folks who arrive in black clad hordes behind black sunglasses and pursed lips every January for the Sundance Film Festival to be bedazzled by the latest esoteric indie film. Thirdly, you get the random Mormon on a pilgrimage to the temple in Salt Lake City who somehow found herself or himself in the only town not totally defined by religion. Those visits are more ephemeral. If these famous happenings in Park City don’t ring a bell, then may I remind you that nearly half of the Olympic events in 2002 were in Park City, not Salt Lake City. Ah yes, there it is. I knew we’d get there eventually.

So all in all, your next trip to Park City can be wonderfully unique for many reasons, although I doubt the Olympics will come again, at least for a while. Aside from ski slopes deliciously thick with dry snow on REAL mountains (not like those slightly elevated mounds East Coasters claim to be a ski resort), there are so many ways to entertain yourself in Park City, I wonder why I ever complained growing up there. You can ride horses and mountain bike in the summer, explore surprisingly fashionable art galleries and clothing boutiques, or find a bar to get that imported beer that doesn’t contain only 2.8% alcohol. But consumerism and all of the tourist delights never allows you to get the true meaning of a city in your radar; people, people, people are the crux of Park City’s culture. Ski bum or chic surburbanite, foreign or home grown, Park City-ites have a ripe sense of adventure and stout independence, spawned from their mining and ski bum ancestors. Even if the bloodline doesn't extend, this culture is quickly learned. Welcome the wild wild west.

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