Arts and Entertainment

Park City is a ski town at heart, but it is also a burgeoning culture center, thanks to its thriving arts scene and year-round calendar of festivals. Stroll around Park City's Historic Main Street, and you'll find a number of fine art galleries, studios and hip music venues. Each January, the Sundance Film Festival screens cutting-edge indie films and sees the streets fill up with Hollywood celebrities and aspiring amateurs. Summertime brings a variety of free outdoor concerts series and the Park City Art Festival. The popular Fidelity Investments Park City International Jazz Festival, has featured headliners like Ray Charles and Natalie Cole, and draws thousands of jazz aficionados. Now in it's 4th year, the Park City Food and Wine Classic will return in July. Even during non-festival weeks, music and theatre buffs can take in an array of live concerts and shows at the Historic Egyptian Theater and the Eccles Performing Arts Center. Sports fans enjoy a wide assortment of year-round competitions and exhibitions, from dirt-bike racing to alpine ski tournaments. Guided tours of the large Utah Olympic Park allow thrill-seeking fools to take a 60-mile-per-hour spin on the 1335 meter-long luge track.

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Eccles Center for the Performing Arts

1750 Kearns Blvd.
Park City, UT 84060
(435) 655-3114
www.ecclescenter.org
The Eccles Center for the Performing Arts produces a full calendar of concerts, musicals and events on its Main Stage, from recording artists Los Lobos and Marc Cohn, to the U.S. Marine Band and satirist Eve Ensler. The Eccles Center also co-produces the popular Park City Summer Concert Series, with headliners like B.B. King and Alison Krauss.

Historic Egyptian Theatre

328 Main St.
Park City, UT 84060
(888) 243-5779
www.egyptiantheatrecompany.org
Park City's historic Egyptian Revival-style theater was one of the area's first vaudeville and silent movie houses. These days, the theater's in-house acting troupe presents a diverse selection of musicals, cabarets, dramas and concerts.

Kimball Art Center

638 Park Ave.
Park City, UT 84060
(435) 649-8882
www.kimball-art.org
The Kimball Art Center boasts several permanent collections of classic and contemporary works by local and national artists, and a steady stream of traveling exhibits. The center also offers an ambitious community art program, with a full schedule of classes and workshops year-round. The center is responsible for the popular Park City Arts Festival, which brings the works of over 200 fine artists to the streets each summer.

Park City Historical Society & Museum

528 Main Street
Park City, UT 84060
(435) 649-7457
www.parkcityhistory.org
Visitors with an interest in Park City's mining days can check out the Park City Historical Society and Museum. Exhibits depicting 19th-century Park City include the original territorial jail, an authentic stagecoach, mining equipment, and real portions of the Silver King Mine. Docent-led tours and self-guided tour brochures are available at the museum desk.

Utah Olympic Park

Bear Hollow Drive
Park City, UT 84098-0337
(435) 658-4200
www.olyparks.com
The 389-acre Utah Olympic Park staged several events in the 2002 Winter Olympics, including the luge, ski-jumping, bobsled and skeleton competitions. Today the park still hosts a year-round calendar of competitions and events and offers lessons to the hardy souls willing to give the 1,335 meter-long luge track and 120-meter Nordic ski jumps a try. Self-guided tours and shuttle tours of the park are also available for a small fee.