Park City's Off-Season Has Two End Dates This Year

Park City's quiet stretch this fall ends on two dates, not one. Park City Mountain is targeting Friday, Nov. 20, for opening day. Deer Valley is targeting Dec. 5. Both dates depend on conditions. Restaurant reopenings, resort parking rules and holiday events cluster around those two days. Plan around them and the next five weeks are easier to work with.

Dinner reopens in two waves

The fall hours roundup from Dishing Park City, built from what restaurants reported to the Park City Area Restaurant Association, shows breaks of very different lengths. Some kitchens close for a few weeks. Others stay dark until the second resort opens.

KITA and Shabu both plan to reopen on Nov. 20, the same day Park City Mountain targets for its first lifts. La Stellina at the St. Regis Deer Valley comes back on Dec. 5, the day Deer Valley targets. It returns with nightly service from 5 to 10 p.m., up from its fall schedule of Wednesday through Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m. Firewood and the Nelson Cottage both reopen Dec. 3, two days before Deer Valley's target.

Thanksgiving falls on Nov. 26 this year, in the middle of High West's break. The distillery, the saloon and the Nelson Cottage are all closed that week, so a holiday plan that counts on them needs another option.

At Deer Valley, the Carpenter Café and Royal Street Café are closed for the season, and The Brass Tag and The Sticky Wicket are taking seasonal breaks. Deer Valley Café is still serving daily from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. At the St. Regis, RIME Seafood & Steak skips dinner on two more Sundays, Nov. 1 and Nov. 8.

Where the kitchens stay open

On Main Street, the roundup lists plenty of places keeping regular hours through November:

• 350 Main and Blind Dog: Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m.
• Grub Steak and LOMA: nightly, 5 to 9 p.m.
• Butcher's Chop House & Bar: daily, 4 to 10 p.m.
• Alpine Distilling Social Aid and Pleasure Club: Tuesday through Saturday, 4 to 10 p.m., and Sunday, 2 to 7 p.m.
• Flanagan's on Main: lunch and dinner every day
• CHOMP Donuts & Coffee: daily, 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
• The Spur Bar & Grill: daily until 1 a.m., with live music every night
• tupelo Park City: Wednesday through Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m., until ski season

Up the hill, Stein Eriksen Lodge keeps The Glitretind open nightly from 6 to 9 p.m., with Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the Troll Hallen Lounge runs from 7 a.m. to midnight. The St. Regis Bar and Brasserie 7452 are both open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

One of the newest dinner options didn't exist last fall. Canopy Deer Valley opened in late August with four dining outlets, and the two lobby concepts, the Italian restaurant Tavolona and the Italian sports bar and lounge Fornetto, serve dinner Tuesday through Saturday. Tavolona also serves breakfast and lunch, as The Park Record reported.

Dine About Park City runs through Saturday, Oct. 31. That leaves this weekend for prix-fixe menus at more than 30 participating restaurants, including Red Rock Brewery, Le Depot Brasserie and Handle, according to TownLift. Hours can change, so check with the restaurant before you go. The PCARA site keeps the latest schedules.

A November calendar that builds toward snow

Many of the town's evening venues fill November with programs that point toward winter. The ski films at the Jim Santy Auditorium run right up to opening day.

1. Oct. 28 to Nov. 1: Little Shop of Horrors at the Egyptian Theatre, with 8 p.m. shows Wednesday through Saturday and a 5 p.m. Sunday show.
2. Oct. 31: Howl-o-ween on Main Street, free, starting at 3 p.m.
3. Nov. 4: Beyond the Land Acknowledgement at the Park City Library, 5 p.m.
4. Nov. 6: Kimball's 50th Birthday Bash + Clay Party at the Kimball Art Center. The center's exhibition Between the Lines: Stories Told Through Abstraction runs through Jan. 3. The same day, uphill-season passes go on sale at the Utah Olympic Park.
5. Nov. 6 to 8: The Sweet at the Egyptian, with a youth-cast Dracula in the Egyptian Studios Black Box Theatre on Nov. 6 and 7.
6. Nov. 8: Warren Miller's Days Off at the Santy, through Park City Film.
7. Nov. 10: Recycle Utah's November Green Drinks at the Egyptian, 6 to 8 p.m., and the library's Sustainability Speaker Series with Moonshadow Farms at 5 p.m.
8. Nov. 12 to 14: Forever Motown at the Egyptian.
9. Nov. 13 to 15: Matchstick Productions Presents: The Way Out at the Santy.
10. Nov. 18: A Brief History of Park City Mills at the Park City Museum, 5 to 6 p.m.
11. Nov. 19: Girl Winter Film Tour 2026 at the Santy.
12. Nov. 19 to 21: Showtime! On Main Street, about the history of Main Street's stages, at the Egyptian, plus a behind-the-scenes tour at noon on Nov. 21.

Nov. 20: the first wave

If conditions hold, three things happen on the same Friday. Lifts start turning at Park City Mountain, KITA and Shabu reopen, and Habitat for Humanity holds its Tree Show and Auction, followed by a Tree Community Open House on Nov. 21 at 2417 W. High Mountain Road.

Parking at Mountain Village starts gently. From Nov. 20 through Dec. 4, every Mountain Village surface lot is free, but you still need an advance reservation, seven days a week, to guarantee a spot before noon. After 12 p.m., all lots are free and need no reservation.

Canyons Village is in the middle of construction. The new parking structure and the 10-person Canyons Village Skyway, which replaces the Cabriolet, are still being built. Until the garage opens, Surface Lots 2, 3 and 4 are free, with shuttle or walking routes to the upper village. Those lots close once the garage opens. The resort's schedule lists Skyway hours of 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for the winter season. The Skyway's main job is carrying people from the new garage to the Canyons Village Forum, and the garage is scheduled to open in early December.

Cena and the 7880 Club follow on Nov. 24, and A Christmas Story – The Musical opens at the Egyptian the same night for a run through Nov. 29. The Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, has two evening options. Park City Mountain holds its annual Canyons Village Tree Lighting, and Gallery MAR opens Geoffrey Gersten: '50s Fabulism from 6 to 9 p.m.

Dec. 5: the second wave

Deer Valley's target date brings the most changes at once. The resort said it hopes to open all of its expansion terrain this season, including the areas near Pioche and Neptune that couldn't open last winter, The Park Record reported. The East Village and Park Peak lodges are still under construction and are slated for the 2027-28 winter. New this season, per the paper's summer preview, the Hail Peak Express opens 200 skiable acres and seven runs, bringing Deer Valley to 4,500 acres. The season also adds a family snow-feature zone near Pioche and a 10-million-gallon snowmaking reservoir.

From Dec. 5 through Dec. 11, Deer Valley is offering free daily lift tickets to children 12 and under, one child ticket per paying adult, plus 50% off children's rentals booked by phone, TownLift reported. La Stellina returns the same evening.

Dec. 5 is also the day Mountain Village parking switches from free reservations to paid ones. From Dec. 5 through April 3, a reservation in the surface lots costs $29, with Silver King Lot added on certain peak days. Garage reservations cost $50 and open 72 hours ahead. Cars with four or more people still park free in the First Time Lot with a reservation, and every lot stays free without a reservation after noon. The new Canyons garage uses a similar model. It charges $29 a day, is free after 12 p.m., offers free carpool areas for vehicles with four or more occupants when space allows, and sells a Winter Season Parking Pass.

City buses are changing too. For this winter, Park City Transit plans to build schedules from historic travel times on each route segment by time of day, and to keep buses mostly on one corridor so a delay on one route doesn't spread to the others, according to TownLift. City Council paused the proposed 10-Pink route linking Quinns Junction, Park City Hospital and Studio Crossing until it has more ridership information.

The Mine, the new community center in City Park, is now expected to open around Dec. 16, KPCW reported. It will have a playground, basketball courts, a community room and recreation and camp programs, and some classes will move there from the MARC. Before then, Yonder Mountain String Band plays the Egyptian Dec. 3 through 6, the same weekend Firewood, the Nelson Cottage and Deer Valley come back.

If the quiet weeks have you thinking about where you'd like to be for next season, whether that means closer to the new Canyons garage, near Deer Valley's expanded terrain, or within walking distance of Main Street, TJ Walsh Group is happy to talk through how each part of town lives in winter. Contact us.