Summit County Officials Return from Milano-Cortina with Winter Olympics Planning Lessons

Summit County Manager Shayne Scott and County Councilor Tonja Hanson were part of a small delegation of Summit County and Park City officials who traveled to northern Italy to observe the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and returned Feb. 24, 2026 with what county leaders described as concrete lessons for local planning. The trip placed county leadership alongside Park City counterparts at an active Olympic Games to study real-time operations.

The delegation focused its visit on Milano-Cortina 2026 venues and event operations in northern Italy, attending sessions and site visits to see how an international winter Games managed logistics and public-facing services. Summit County and Park City officials traveled together so local leaders could compare notes on scaling services for high visitor volumes and complex event timelines during peak winter months.

Summit County Manager Shayne Scott and County Councilor Tonja Hanson reported the return from Milan with practical takeaways intended for Summit County government review. Those returning officials emphasized the value of first-hand observation at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics as a reference point for future county-level planning for large winter events.

Park City officials who joined the Summit County delegation brought municipal perspective to the trip, pairing city-level event experience with county-scale concerns. The presence of both Summit County and Park City leaders in northern Italy gave local officials a shared frame of reference for assessing how Olympic-scale operations might translate to Summit County’s resort communities and transportation corridors.

The delegation’s return on Feb. 24, 2026 puts Summit County leadership on a timetable to translate the Milano-Cortina lessons into concrete discussions. Summit County Manager Shayne Scott and County Councilor Tonja Hanson will present their observations from the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics to county decision-makers as Summit County evaluates planning measures for future large winter events and visitor surges.