Review Date
July 5, 2009

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Reviewed by: BL2000, Skier

Price Paid: $61.00

Summary:
After 30 years only having skied the other 'canyons' in Utah (including a season each bumming at Snowbird and Park City), I tried Solitude a few years ago. The place has consistently exceeded my expectations. The snow quality tends to be great due to the heavy snowfall (not QUITE as much as the Little Cottonwood resorts but way more than the Park City areas) and very low skier traffic. I've skied there maybe a dozen times all over the mountain, but am sure I've only actually hit about 20% of the terrain--there are so many more tree slots, chutes and bowl trajectories to explore. The mountain skis much larger than its still considerable 1,000 acres. I believe that's due to the fact its segmented into many sections, each with its own character: Sunrise (great trees and steeps), under the Summit lift (a bit of everything), Evergreen (a few treed chutes), skiers right under Powderhorn (glades), skiers left off Powderhorn (fast groomers), between Powderhorn and top of the Eagle Express (huge bowl), under lower Eagle Express (bumps, groomers), the runs off Moonbeam (beginners terrain with a nice short bump run), south/west side of Honeycomb (chutes and bowls), north/east side of Honeycomb (trees), under the Honeycomb Return lift (steep lift line and dense trees skier right). The lift network is getting a much needed makeover. I don't mind slow chairs, but am a bit phobic about not having safety bars. The village has nice amenities, but not the variety of Snowbird or the PC resorts. The best thing is this is a fantastic skiing mountain with NO crowds, EVER.
If you want to double up the terrain, you can buy a pass for both Solitude and Brighton. If you are into backcountry, you can also drop over the south side of the Summit lift and ski down to Alta.

Customer Service:
People are very helpful and pleasant. But, you'd expect that in Utah.

Similar Products Used:
I'm based on the east coast, so mostly ski there, but have been all through Utah, Colorado and California.

Review Date
January 19, 2007

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Value Rating
 1 of 5

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 1 votes

Reviewed by: johntravolta, Snowboarder

Price Paid: $53.00

Summary:
This place is terrible, easily the worst of the 4 salt lake resorts. If your old, a newbie or a little kid than go here. I rode snowbird, brighton and then solitude and this place was so overgroomed I felt like I was back east skiing on new hampshire hardpack. I had more confidence on the ungroomed, tracked out steeps of snowbird than the cordoroy on-top-of-ice at this place. I don't need every lift to be a detacthable high speed quad (some of the most fun I had on the trip were off the ancient double at brighton) but the lifts and the lift layout at this place were god awfull. Yeah they don't have lift lines but it actually takes longer to get to the top than resorts which do have lines cause their lifts are so bad. The magnetic pass swiper which you lean up against instead of having a liftie scan your ticket is another retarded feature of this place. They had one good quad that serviced about 1000 ft of vert. Honeycomb canyon is good if you want to take one decent run, have a 20 minute icy runout on ironically enough ungroomed flats and then take 3 lifts and traverse back across the mountain. They say the pow remains untracked at this place for alot longer than at the other salt lake resorts and I can easily see why, I would rather ride pow and good terrain at snowbird or brighton for 2 and half hours than spend a whole pow day riding at this god awful resort. This was one day of my trip where ironically enough I wished I was riding back east even given the god awfull winter we've had so far this season.

Customer Service:
A brand new base lodge with 2 sit down toilets and 3 urinals in the entire lodge??!!, mind you this is a sizeable lodge with full service cafeteria, gift shop and pub. The lodge also had no indoor staircase, only an elevator?? This was not only retarded but inconvenient, who is skiing at a resort that can't take a flight of stairs (adaptive skiers maybe but thats .0001% of the ski population). I actually waited about twenty minutes to take a crap because of the moronic layout of the lodge, I honestly at that point in the day felt like crapping on the floor of the place.

Similar Products Used:
snowbird, brighton, stowe, wildcat, sunday river, jay peak

Review Date
March 7, 2005

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
6-16

Reviewed by: Steepslover, Double Diamond

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:
Those who complain about this area not having steep enough terrain have no idea what they are talking about. There is absolutely death-defying terrain at Solitude - you simply have to know where to go to find it. It rivals both Snowbird and Alta for steeps (although not as long as either), gets the same amount of snow, and the lift lines are non-existent on the weekends. So, go here on the weekends and do Alta/Bird on the weekdays.

Review Date
January 5, 2004

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Countless

Reviewed by: Brad, Double Diamond

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:
This is my favorite place in Utah. There is great terrain and rarely lift lines and the Powder stays around for a long time. This place is much better than Brighton in almost every area. Anyone who thinks otherwise obviously hasn't spent much time at either.

Review Date
December 11, 2003

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
2-5

Reviewed by: csmaller, Double Diamond

Price Paid: $0.00

Summary:
man, this place was awesome! I went twice during my time there during early March and I got one foot of fresh one day and the day before i got 50 degrees and a sunburn. NO lift line at all, decent food, nobody on the slopes, good trees. No terrain but didnt come to utah to hit kickers (that is all we have out east)