Anchor Trees Hiking Trail Ribbon Cutting
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Mountain Trails Foundation, Summit Land Conservancy, and Deer Valley Resort enthusiastically invite you to attend a grand opening hike of the new Anchor Trees Hike Trail in Deer Valley.
We'll meet at the old Daly West mine headframe adjacent to the Montage and walk to the bottom of the Anchor Trees Trail. The new trail intersects the Mid Mountain Trail where the Empire Express Lift crosses over the Mid Mountain Trail (just above the Montage). Look for the MTF flag.
Once gathered, we'll hike the new trail up about 1.3 miles and 800' to the 9K trail. To help pack in the tread before winter, we're going to double our impact with an out and back hike.
What to bring: sturdy hiking shoes (it's a finished but new trail), weather appropriate outerwear, water, sun protection, and a smile to share.
Free prizes for purple bus riders
(To arrive in time, we recommend you take the 11:36 a.m. bus from Old Town Transit Center)
A Little Bit About the Project
The Anchor Trees Hike Trail was an answer to the cry from hikers in the upper Deer Valley area for a bike-free hiking zone. This section of the trail system is extremely popular with visitors and tends to get congested on lovely summer mornings. Recognizing a relatively short connection could remedy the overcrowding and preserve Park City's world-class trail experience, MTF, SLC, and DV sketched out a plan to make this trail come to fruition.
As you'll see from social media photos below, the trail was originally referred to as the 9K - Mid Mtn Trail. As you'd imagine, those two trails bookend the trail we now call Anchor Trees. The trail climbs through the conifer forest on Summit Land Conservancy's Empire Canyon Conservation and takes hikers on a view rich, biologically and geologically diverse hiking experience.
This trail is about 1.3 miles long and gains about 800' in elevation between Mid Mountain Trail and the 9K Trail. It can be accessed from the Mid Mountain Trail, the 9K Trail, or the Io Trail, which connects to the Bloods Lake Trailhead. Using the Transit to Trails bus drop-off at Bloods Lake Trailhead, it is possible to hike back to town using Io, Anchor Trees and Daly Canyon trails.
Starting from the Mid Mountain Trail and hiking up to Io Trail then over into Bonanza Flat creates endless hike-only route options through Bonanza Flat and the Cottonwood Canyons. This trail is easily accessed from the Montage stop on Park City Transit's 9 Purple bus route.
For the first three years of the Anchor Trees Trail development, progress was really slow because our crew was tied up with commitments to other major projects. During that time, Anchor Trees was MTF's standing volunteer project, and for all the volunteers who poured their sweat onto this trail, we are so grateful!
The trail crew rallied to move this project off the to-do list and into reality. There were a few sections of the trail you'll see as you hike along that required high-level professional trail building experience. You'll know them when you see them. And we hope, like the rest of the trail and all the effort it took to bring this baby alive, you'll appreciate the hard work it took to finish this project.
Learn more about what we do and how we do it on Tuesday at noon!
We'll meet at the old Daly West mine headframe adjacent to the Montage and walk to the bottom of the Anchor Trees Trail. The new trail intersects the Mid Mountain Trail where the Empire Express Lift crosses over the Mid Mountain Trail (just above the Montage). Look for the MTF flag.
Once gathered, we'll hike the new trail up about 1.3 miles and 800' to the 9K trail. To help pack in the tread before winter, we're going to double our impact with an out and back hike.
What to bring: sturdy hiking shoes (it's a finished but new trail), weather appropriate outerwear, water, sun protection, and a smile to share.
Free prizes for purple bus riders
(To arrive in time, we recommend you take the 11:36 a.m. bus from Old Town Transit Center)
A Little Bit About the Project
The Anchor Trees Hike Trail was an answer to the cry from hikers in the upper Deer Valley area for a bike-free hiking zone. This section of the trail system is extremely popular with visitors and tends to get congested on lovely summer mornings. Recognizing a relatively short connection could remedy the overcrowding and preserve Park City's world-class trail experience, MTF, SLC, and DV sketched out a plan to make this trail come to fruition.
As you'll see from social media photos below, the trail was originally referred to as the 9K - Mid Mtn Trail. As you'd imagine, those two trails bookend the trail we now call Anchor Trees. The trail climbs through the conifer forest on Summit Land Conservancy's Empire Canyon Conservation and takes hikers on a view rich, biologically and geologically diverse hiking experience.
This trail is about 1.3 miles long and gains about 800' in elevation between Mid Mountain Trail and the 9K Trail. It can be accessed from the Mid Mountain Trail, the 9K Trail, or the Io Trail, which connects to the Bloods Lake Trailhead. Using the Transit to Trails bus drop-off at Bloods Lake Trailhead, it is possible to hike back to town using Io, Anchor Trees and Daly Canyon trails.
Starting from the Mid Mountain Trail and hiking up to Io Trail then over into Bonanza Flat creates endless hike-only route options through Bonanza Flat and the Cottonwood Canyons. This trail is easily accessed from the Montage stop on Park City Transit's 9 Purple bus route.
For the first three years of the Anchor Trees Trail development, progress was really slow because our crew was tied up with commitments to other major projects. During that time, Anchor Trees was MTF's standing volunteer project, and for all the volunteers who poured their sweat onto this trail, we are so grateful!
The trail crew rallied to move this project off the to-do list and into reality. There were a few sections of the trail you'll see as you hike along that required high-level professional trail building experience. You'll know them when you see them. And we hope, like the rest of the trail and all the effort it took to bring this baby alive, you'll appreciate the hard work it took to finish this project.
Learn more about what we do and how we do it on Tuesday at noon!
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Where is it happening?
Daly West Mine Headframe, 9100 Marsac Ave, Park City, UT 84060, United States
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Host or PublisherMountain Trails Foundation
