PARK CITY, Utah — A Provo-based nonprofit has sued Park City Mountain Resort, alleging the ski area is operating two chairlifts and a ski run on its property without legal authorization and seeking a court order that could shut them down.
The lawsuit, filed Feb. 6 in Summit County’s 3rd District Court, was brought by UI Charitable, which purchased approximately 63 acres at the base of Iron Mountain in late 2024. The parcel includes the bottom terminal of the Iron Mountain Express and the southern terminal of the Timberline lift.
UI Charitable claims the resort does not hold valid easement rights to operate the chairlifts or the Cascade ski run on its land. The nonprofit is seeking millions of dollars in damages and an injunction that could require the lifts to cease operations. The complaint also asks the court to grant it the right to remove what it calls “trespassory objects” from the property.
Park City Mountain, owned by Vail Resorts, operates much of its terrain through a combination of ownership, leases and easements — legal agreements that allow use of land owned by others. In a statement, Park City Mountain Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Deirdra Walsh said the resort is “confident in our longstanding and long-term easement rights underlying our ski operations throughout The Colony, including on the parcel in question in this recent filing.”…