Lost ski areaUtahWasatch RangeRocky Mountains
DC Shoes Mountain Lab
Closed after the 2011 season. A private snowboard park near Glenwild, outside Park City, built by DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block, with a rope tow serving 10 runs.
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The DC Mountain Lab was a private snowboard park on a 22-acre property in The Ranches at The Preserve near Glenwild, outside Park City. Its owner, DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block, built the terrain park beside his home, and the Utah Lost Ski Area Project dates its opening to the early 2000s.1,2,3,4,5
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Lost near DC Shoes Mountain Lab
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Closed 1968 · 9.7 mi away · UtahA small rope-tow hill nine miles up Emigration Canyon, popular in the 1950s and 1960s, that closed in 1968.
- 1929–1933 · 37.7 mi away · UtahA ski jump at Shanghai Flat in Ogden Canyon, used for competitions from 1930 until 1933 and later lost to the Pineview Dam.
- Years not yet collected · 53.4 mi away · WyomingA small ski area about 15 miles east of Evanston, off old U.S. 30, with a single chairlift and two rope tows.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 5 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The DC Mountain Lab was a private snowboard park on a 22-acre property in The Ranches at The Preserve near Glenwild, outside Park City. Its owner, DC Shoes co-founder Ken Block, built the terrain park beside his home, and the Utah Lost Ski Area Project dates its opening to the early 2000s. A rope tow served 10 runs through features built by Snow Park Technologies, and Block's company tested boots, boards and outerwear there. The park was the setting for the snowboard videos MTN. Lab and MTN. Lab 1.5.1,2,3,4,5
The park caused years of disputes with neighbors. A May 2008 agreement with the homeowners association required Block to remove the man-made obstacles and return the lots to their earlier state, and he agreed to take out the jumps and rails. He put the property up for sale in 2011, with the rope tow still in place, and the Utah project gives 2011 as the park's last year. The Inertia later wrote that he sold it in 2011, while a December 2015 release announced an absolute auction of the property.1,2,3,4
Sources for this history (5)
- 1The Park Record · The Mountain Lab can be yours (Andrew Kirk, March 1, 2011)
- 2Utah Lost Ski Area Project · DC Mountain Lab
- 3The Inertia · For Snowboarding's Sake, Please Bring Back the DC Mountain Lab (Matthew Vanatta, March 15, 2018)
- 4PR Newswire · Owner of DC Shoes and Hoonigan Motor Racing Team Selling 'DC Mountain Lab' and Snowboard Park at Park City, Utah Auction (December 3, 2015)
- 5Wikipedia · DC Mountain Lab
Photos
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Memories
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Facts
Location
40.7572° N · 111.5390° W · Utah · Wasatch Range
OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
until 2011 · the year it opened is not yet collected
Closed after the 2011 season. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 2all 2, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain