Park City Mountain to Host Snow League Season Two Competitions

Standing atop an 18-foot halfpipe cut into Scott's Bowl at Park City Mountain, Shaun White announced Tuesday that his Snow League will hold its second season at the resort January 22-24, 2027, the same weekend Park City has spent decades clearing its calendar for the Sundance Film Festival.

The timing is not coincidental. The Sundance Film Festival, which generated more than $196 million in economic impact in 2025 and drew more than 85,000 attendees, is permanently relocating to Boulder, Colorado starting next year, stripping the community of what state economists estimated as roughly $132 million in annual economic activity. The Snow League's arrival fills the Sundance slot on the events calendar, but the audience profile is sharply different: instead of film industry crowds largely off the mountain, competition week will funnel spectators directly onto the resort's terrain, compressing foot traffic alongside regular ski operations at the largest ski resort in the United States.

To host a competition worthy of that moment, Park City Mountain will build a 22-foot halfpipe, the largest at the resort since the 2019 FIS World Championships. A structure of that scale requires intensive snowmaking to shape and hold its walls, adding a meaningful environmental and logistical cost to what organizers frame as a long-term infrastructure investment. Specific ticketing, parking management plans, and public-safety staffing for the event weekend have not yet been announced.

Omer Atesmen, CEO of The Snow League, described the Park City stop as foundational strategy. "Establishing a presence in Park City now allows the league to shape the future of winter sports in one of the 'most important markets in the world,'" he said. "We're proud to build a true destination event that connects competition, culture and community while inspiring the next generation of skiers and snowboarders."

A Park City Mountain official identified only as Warda in a Park Record report pointed to the venue's concentration of engaged fans. "Park City gives us the opportunity to showcase the highest level of performance in our sports to one of the largest concentrations of current and future fans anywhere in the world, in a location that's uniquely accessible," Warda said. "With the momentum building toward the 2034 Winter Olympics, the timing couldn't be better."

White, who founded The Snow League in 2024 as the first professional league devoted entirely to snowboarding and freeskiing, tied the event directly to Olympic history. "Park City Mountain has always been one of the most important places in snowboarding and freeskiing, so bringing The Snow League here for Season Two feels incredibly special," he said.

That history cuts both ways. Park City hosted Olympic halfpipe snowboarding in 2002, when Ross Powers, Danny Kass and JJ Thomas swept the men's medals and Kelly Clark won gold in the women's event. No U.S. man has reached the Olympic halfpipe podium since White's third gold medal in 2018, a drought organizers attribute to a surge of elite Japanese competitors and a shrinking number of full-sized halfpipes available for American riders to train on. The 22-foot pipe being built for Scott's Bowl is a direct response to that competitive decline.

Season One of The Snow League concluded at LAAX, Switzerland, where Sena Tomita and Yuto Totsuka were crowned snowboard world champions and Eileen Gu and Luke Harrold won the freeski titles. The three-day Park City competition will add live music and fan experiences to the elite halfpipe program, and will serve as the clearest test yet of whether a professional winter sports league can anchor the January weekend that a generation of Park City businesses built their calendars around.