North 40 path closes at Park City High during sports complex work

The North 40 pathway entrance from the Park City High School parking lot is closed while work continues on the Treasure Mountain Sports Complex, forcing students, parents and neighbors onto a detour that runs outside the construction fence and reconnects near the preschool. The change is small on a map, but it affects one of the busiest walking corridors around the school and puts more people into a tighter space near the campus edge.

The district’s alternate route keeps pedestrians moving by steering them around the fenced construction zone before they rejoin the McPolin sidewalk. That makes the stretch near the preschool the key pinch point, where walkers should expect a narrower, more crowded transition and where posted signs matter most. The district has asked people to follow the signage and use caution as work advances.

The closure sits inside a much larger athletics overhaul that the Park City Board of Education has been advancing for more than a year. In June 2025, the board approved a $23.1 million guaranteed maximum price for the Treasure Mountain Sports Complex work, then adopted a $248 million budget for fiscal year 2025-26, with $65 million set aside for ongoing construction projects. The plan calls for demolishing Treasure Mountain Junior High and replacing it with two soccer fields and eight tennis courts, while turf softball and baseball fields are planned east of the site and Dozier Field on the west side of Park City High is being renovated with a new track and support buildings.

The district said in late May that the athletics master plan was expected to be substantially completed by early August. The softball, baseball and soccer fields were expected to be playable by the end of July, with tennis-court construction tentatively set to begin in mid-July. Even with those milestones ahead, dewatering and soil work were still underway on the Treasure Mountain side, which helps explain why access around the high school remains in flux.

The construction is also unfolding on a site shaped by Park City’s mining past. Much of the soil at Treasure Mountain is contaminated with lead and arsenic, and the cleanup rules tied to the project leave limited room for delay once construction wraps up. For families trying to get through the campus on foot, the message is straightforward: use the posted detour, expect congestion near the preschool connection, and treat the closure as part of a busy construction zone rather than a routine sidewalk interruption.