LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON — The second time was the charm. Snowbird's new red aerial tram cabin is now all but ready to go following an installation mishap that destroyed the previous cabin in May.

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.

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.

The current aerial tram cabins, which date back to Snowbird's opening in 1971 and have traveled close to 795,000 miles, will make their last run on April 3 before they are retired.

New tram cars at Snowbird resort In a release, the resort said they worked closely with The Doppelmayr Group on the upgrade for two years. The new tram cabins were completed in Olten, Switzerland ...

One of Snowbird's brand new tram cabins damaged beyond repair during installation The installation of two brand-new, state-of-the-art tram cabins at Snowbird is not quite going as planned.

After a brief hiatus for scheduled Tram maintenance (and installing our brand-new Tram rooftop balconies!), Snowbird is reopening its slopes for one last weekend of skiing and riding, June 17-18.

Directly under the tram, Great Scott is the steepest, longest line you can see as you ascend to the 11,000-foot summit of Snowbird’s Hidden Peak. But unlike Hollywood lines like Corbet’s or the ...

Also, at the time of writing this, lift tickets to Snowbird over the closing weekend range from $126 to $140, but with an Ikon Pass, you won’t need to pay a cent as long as you haven’t already ...

Snowbird’s famous Aerial Tram accesses nearly 3,000 vertical feet in only eight minutes, while the back bowls of Mineral Basin connect skiers with neighboring Alta for the ultimate powder experience.