The Tram Club — a bar at the base of Snowbird Ski Resort — has closed after 27 years in business, the operators announced on July 17.

Snowbird Resort will replace its 50-year-old aerial tram this summer. The new cabins will have open-air balconies and glass panels in the floor during the summer.

New tram cabins opened at Snowbird on Nov. 25, 2022, one week after they opened for the season. (Video: Courtesy of Snowbird) Planning for the trams began in summer 2021.

RESORT DESCRIPTION: Unmatched accessibility, over 500 inches a year of legendary Little Cottonwood Canyon powder (and 600 inches-plus in the last three seasons) and 2,500 acres of heart-pounding ...

But it’s this tough terrain that first drew Snowbird’s founder, Ted Johnson, to the area in the mid-1960s, when he took a job at the neighbouring Alta Ski Resort. Known as the “Silver Fox” for his ...

With access to over 90 percent of the resort’s terrain and some of the best inbounds skiing in the Lower 48, laps off the Snowbird tram are a must. Line up by 8 a.m. to ensure first cabin once ...

Here are some tips, again, for both skiers and boarders: If you’re going down a steep run and the front of your gear is bouncing over loose clumps of snow, that means you’re not carving. Clench your ...

If I never ski again, I could (almost) survive off the 30 years of memories I have from days in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, home of those sacred citadels of skiing — Alta and Snowbird.