Park City Mountain closes Lower Silver Spur for Shaun White event prep
Lower Silver Spur is closed through July, forcing hikers and bikers onto detours while Park City Mountain builds a 22-foot halfpipe for Shaun White’s 2027 Snow League event.
Hikers and bikers using Lower Silver Spur near the First Time parking lot are being pushed off a key lower-mountain route until the end of July, with Armstrong users told to detour via Three Kings Drive. Park City Mountain says the tradeoff is a new 22-foot halfpipe for The Snow League, the freestyle ski and snowboard circuit Shaun White founded in 2024 and plans to bring to Park City for a January 22-24, 2027 event.
The closure lands on one of the mountain’s most traveled summer connectors, not a minor maintenance cut. The affected corridor is part of the hike-friendly route built around Seldom Seen, including Silver Spur, Armstrong, Dawn’s and Lower Spiro, and it sits inside a trail system that Mountain Trails Foundation says stretches across about 400 miles of continuous non-motorized recreational trail. The foundation also designates Park City as a Gold Level Ride Center, underscoring how central the network is to daily recreation in Summit County.
Park City Mountain and The Snow League announced the season-two stop on March 31, 2026. The resort says the upgraded halfpipe will debut for the event, and the league says Park City has not seen a halfpipe that size since the 2019 FIS World Championships. That makes the current trail closure part of a larger construction push aimed at a marquee winter competition rather than a short-term operational fix.
The mountain’s event plans also carry civic and tourism weight beyond the ski area boundary. KPCW reported that the March announcement at Scott’s Bowl drew Park City Chamber CEO Jennifer Wesselhoff and Mayor Ryan Dickey, a signal that city leaders view the league as part of the community’s winter calendar as much as the resort does. The timing also matters: organizers have framed the Park City stop as filling a January weekend long associated with the Sundance Film Festival, which is leaving Park City.
For trail users, the practical effect is immediate. Families, pedestrians and mountain bikers who rely on these lower-mountain connections have to change routes in the middle of peak recreation season, and that can alter longer loops and neighborhood access patterns. Mountain Trails Foundation says its trail resource page tracks current conditions, construction and event closures, detours, trailhead cameras and trail-specific data, a sign of how often the network must absorb these shifts as Park City balances public recreation with event-driven development.
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