Park City Mountain will delay its scheduled opening day as warm temperatures continue to limit early season snow across the Wasatch range. The resort had planned to open Friday but will now wait for colder weather before choosing a new date.
“Despite the best efforts from the entire Park City Mountain team, who have been gearing up all summer to welcome guests back to the slopes, Mother Nature decided we could all use just a little more suspense for the 2025-26 ski and ride season. With mild temps hanging around, we are giving winter a little extra time to make its way to Park City and hitting pause on our originally planned opening date of November 21,” said John Kanaly, Park City Mountain’s senior manager of communications .
The resort’s snowmaking crews have been running their guns whenever temperatures drop, but overnight lows have not stayed consistently cold enough to build an adequate base.
The National Weather Service said that the remaining Monday morning precipitation would move out quickly as the system weakens overhead. Snow totals from the weekend storm were light across the Wasatch Back, and forecasters noted that the storm simply didn’t have enough cold air to make a larger impact.
“Valley rain and high elevation snowfall looks to continue through the morning across northern Utah, subsiding by the early afternoon today at the latest,” forecasters said in their Monday forecast discussion.
OpenSnow forecaster Evan Thayer reported Monday that while resorts in the Ogden area, including Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, saw larger snowfall in their higher elevations thanks to a narrow band of weather in the region, the Park City ridgeline stayed firmly on the warm side of the event.
Above 8,000 feet in the Wasatch Back, Thayer estimated 2-5 inches of snow in the most favorable pockets, with far less in the lower elevations.
Another storm system is expected to move through Utah late Monday into Tuesday, but as with the last storm system, forecasters said the bulk of meaningful precipitation will fall in southern Utah.
“Another system is forecast to bring rain and high elevation snowfall on Tuesday with the highest impacts expected across southern Utah,” the National Weather Service forecasters said.
For Park City resorts, this means occasional showers above 8,000 feet, but no meaningful impacts or accumulations to the snowpack. Temperatures will run marginal for snowmaking through midweek, with humidity and freezing levels limiting overnight operations to more short, sporadic windows.
“It’s unlikely we see anything big up north,” Thayer said.
A clearer and drier period is expected through the weekend leading up to next week, when forecasters see hints of potential storminess returning, though confidence remains low.
“Our snowmaking experts have been chasing every cold snap and firing up the snow guns whenever they can, and we are so proud of their around-the-clock work. The moment the weather cooperates, we’ll be ready to bring the mountain back to life,” Kanaly said.
With temperatures still running too warm for reliable snowmaking, Park City Mountain has not set a new opening day.
“Our team is keeping a close eye on the forecast and watching for that perfect snowmaking window. We’ll share an update as soon as we know when winter is ready to roll out the white carpet and we’re able to welcome everyone back to the mountain,” said Kanaly. “Hang tight, winter’s just taking the scenic route to Park City.”