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Utah Olympic Park
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5 reviews for Utah Olympic Park
Interesting place to visit! I feel special to have watched the national team train for the skeleton and luge. Hopefully one of the few names inbedded in my head will win gold! These guys were zooming at 78-81mph through turns.
If you were interested in bobsledding, there were coupons for $70 per person to take a ride through the turns at 80mph G4 speeds.
The museum had a lot of history on the 2002 olympics, skiing, and snowboarding golden age. We also got to sit in a bobsled and luge. Definitely an awesome place to visit.
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My son and I read about the zip line at Olympic Park and decided to give it a try. When we got there, training was going on for ski jumps. All training is done with ski jumps that go into the pool . It was great watching these youngsters do some pretty acrobatic moves in the air. We walked down further and got our tickets for the xtreme zip line. We got on the lift that takes you up to the top of the highest point. There was no waiting. We were strapped in and on our way. Wow! what a great ride. We loved it so much, we went back for a second ride (at half price). There are four zip lines up there, so we took the other two this time. We went much faster on these two lines, haling down with a great view, gusts of wind blowing us around a bit. It was awesome!
Next time we come to Park City, I'm trying the Alpine Slide here.
I may not know how the Jamaicans feel when they filmed "Cool Runnings", but now I know how lots of G-forces feel after riding this cool bobsled when I was visiting Park City. My bobsled's top speed was 79.6MPH and there were so many turns and no, it's NOT like rollercoasters. There is NO word to describe the feelings you got as you rode on this crazy comet. For you guys out there seeking adrenaline rush activity, you have to do this at least once in ur life!!!Now I can check my list off for bobsledding!!! Next one will be hang-gliding!!!
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This is actually better than we had expected. You must go when the athletes are training. Call ahead. 1x/wk. there is also a 30min. spectacle of the short jumps into the pool.
On the tour, you can see the top of the serious 120meter jumps, the bobsled and luge. Can't do that everywhere.
zip lines may be closed after a rain.
Do the bobsled run. $150ea. w/coupon scam from visitor's bureau at bottom of hill. Go 80mph down a small ice chute in a fiberglass shell with a full-face helmet.
Literally carved out of a huge mountainside, this is where they hosted the ski jumping, bobsledding, luge, and skeleton events for the '02 Winter Olympics. Now it serves as a major all-weather national competition and training center for aspiring olympians. When I came here last September, the place was in full swing with winter sports training...without any snow. Winter olympians roll hard in the summertime too: nordic jumpers slide down a slick synthetic material, fly through the air and land on the grass. In fact, the longest jump ever recorded, winter or summer, was in the summer on a synthetic and grass jumping surface. The free-style ski jumping badasses do their acrobatics into a humongous 750,000 gallon pool equipped with air jets to ensure a soft landing. There are kids jumping on trampolines everywhere. My friend and I rode down the intimidating zip lines, apparently the steepest in the world, and there's an alpine slide as well. A really fun place to check out any time of year.
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