This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aim to inform readers across the state.
Park City could move to install paid parking kiosks at several popular trailheads to help manage congestion in Bonanza Flat.
In 2017, Park City purchased the 1,500 acres that make up Bonanza Flat nestled between Empire Pass, Brighton and Wasatch Mountain State Park.
“Bonanza Flat Conversation Area was perhaps one of the most unique preservation saves, I think, in the history of Utah,” Utah Open Lands Executive Director Wendy Fisher told KPCW.
She said Park City voters approved a $25 million bond to help fund the open space purchase. Utah Open Lands brought in another $13 million in private funding.
“All of this was because Bonanza [Flat] was headed towards 260 units of development — ski-in ski-out, 18-hole golf course — really an environment that would be wholly different from what you see there today,” Fisher said.
Read more at kpcw.org.
