Sundance Mountain Resort
The year-round mountain resort Robert Redford founded in the North Fork of Provo Canyon, below Mount Timpanogos: skiing and Nordic trails in winter, lift-served hikes in summer, and an art studio and restaurants all year.
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Plan your visit: access, parking and practical details
Check the operator’s current fees, reservations, parking, transit, restrooms and accessibility arrangements before leaving. Confirm specific mobility or sensory needs directly with the venue.
Official visitor information ↗Snow report
The mountain report separates snowfall, base depth and open lifts and trails. Weather forecasts appear separately.
How to read a snow report
- 24-hour / 48-hour snowfall
- New snow over the stated reporting window. The 48-hour total includes the 24-hour window; don’t add them together.
- Base depth
- Snow on the ground at the resort’s reporting location, which can differ from conditions elsewhere on the mountain.
- Season snowfall
- Snow accumulated over the season’s reporting period, rather than the depth currently on the ground.
- Forecast
- A prediction of future snow, separate from measured snowfall. Snowfall alone does not establish which lifts or trails are open.
Use the source’s update date and time zone, especially around overnight storms. Off-season or stale reports may retain old readings. A missing or undated report does not mean no snow.
Sundance sits in the North Fork of Provo Canyon, on the east side of Mount Timpanogos, a couple of miles up SR-92 from the Provo Canyon highway. It is a ski area, but also a small village with an art studio and gallery, restaurants, a spa and lodging, and people come here in every season.
The mountain tops out at 8,250 feet, with groomers, bowls and aspen glades, three terrain parks and a snowsports school. Lit terrain off the Outlaw and Jake’s lifts is open for night skiing on some evenings in winter.
The biggest change in years is planned for winter 2026–27. The resort says Electric Horseman, a new high-speed quad, will let skiers lap the whole back mountain on one lift and opens new terrain, including Storyteller, an upper-intermediate groomer along the ridgeline once called the Far East Ridgeline. Check the resort’s site for when the lift is actually running.
From Timp Haven to Sundance
Ute people lived on this land before the Stewart family homesteaded the North Fork. In 1944 the Stewarts opened a small ski area here called Timp Haven, with a rope tow driven by a truck engine.
Robert Redford bought a lot in the canyon in 1961 and built a cabin. In August 1968 he bought Timp Haven and renamed it Sundance, after his role in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; the resort dates its founding to 1969. Gatherings of filmmakers and artists at the resort led to the Sundance Institute in 1981.
In December 2020 Redford agreed to sell the resort to Broadreach Capital Partners and Cedar Capital Partners. The announcement said the sale did not change the Sundance Institute or the Sundance Film Festival, which are separate organizations. Alongside the sale, the Redford family and Utah Open Lands placed more than 300 acres near the resort into permanent protection as the Redford Family Elk Meadows Preserve. The film festival moves to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027; the resort stays in Provo Canyon.
Skiing and Nordic
Lift tickets, lessons and rentals are sold through the resort. Use its mountain report and trail map to see which lifts and runs are open.
The Nordic Center is a separate base about two miles farther up SR-92. It grooms about 15 kilometers of trails for classic and skate skiing and keeps about 10 kilometers of snowshoe trails through meadows and aspens below Timpanogos, with rentals and lessons. The resort does not run transportation between the main base and the Nordic Center.
Summer and fall
When the snow melts, the resort runs scenic lift rides, mountain biking, horseback riding, a ZipTour zipline and guided fly fishing on the Provo River, and has more than 20 miles of hiking trails.
Its suggested hikes start from the top of the chairlift and need a lift ticket. The resort’s Stewart Falls route is about 3 miles and takes about two and a half hours including the lift ride, and Bearclaw Summit and Pahneekahvets are shorter trails near the top. The Forest Service trail to Stewart Falls is a different approach: it starts at the Mount Timpanogos (Aspen Grove) trailhead up the Alpine Loop and runs to the falls inside the Mount Timpanogos Wilderness.
Art Studio and Gallery
The Art Studio and Gallery in the resort village is open to day visitors as well as overnight guests. It runs daily classes for beginners and up, including pottery, painting and printmaking, jewelry making and kids’ classes, and hosts a different local or regional artist each month. Visitors can watch glassblowers at work in the Glassblowing Studio, and drop-in make-and-take projects need no appointment.
Eating and staying
The Tree Room is the resort’s fine-dining room, surrounded by Redford’s collection of Native American art, with a small Library Lounge for drinks and light meals; children under 12 are not allowed. The Foundry Grill serves hearty meals by a big hearth. The Owl Bar, built around an old wooden bar that Butch Cassidy is said to have drunk at, has bar food, regular live music and a 21-and-over rule, and does not take reservations. For a quick meal there is the Deli in the village and Bearclaw Cabin at the top of the lifts.
Overnight options include the Inn, cottages and larger mountain homes. Compare locations and what is included when you book.
Maps and mountain orientation
The downhill trail map is separate from the Nordic Center and its cross-country and snowshoe routes. Confirm the correct base and season before using a map.
Official resort maps
Find this resort on the Utah and Wasatch locator maps →
Choose your arrival plan
Sundance lists both paid and complimentary parking and a separate Park’n’Ride service on selected dates. Its transport page contains seasonal bus and shuttle timetables without a clearly established current season throughout. Confirm the year, operating date and final return trip directly before relying on those services.
Known for
- Founded by Robert Redford
- Mount Timpanogos views
- Art Studio & Gallery
- Owl Bar and Tree Room
- Electric Horseman lift, planned for 2026–27
Good to know
- From Utah County, take US-189 up Provo Canyon and turn onto SR-92. The upper Alpine Loop beyond the Aspen Grove trailhead closes in winter, so come up Provo Canyon, not over the loop from American Fork.
- The resort has paid and free parking areas, and in winter it lists a UTA bus and park-and-ride shuttles. Check its getting-here and parking pages for the current rules before you go.
- You do not need a lift ticket for the art studio, the Owl Bar or the village restaurants. The Owl Bar is 21 and over, and the Tree Room does not seat children under 12.