What it is, and why it is unusual
Bear Hollow Unincorporated Summit County
The Utah Olympic Park sits at Bear Hollow just north of Park City, in unincorporated Summit County rather than inside the city limits. It hosted ski jumping, bobsled, skeleton and luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and then did the thing almost no Olympic venue does: it stayed useful.
It runs today as a year-round athlete training centre and a public activity park at the same time, which is a genuinely strange and excellent combination. On an ordinary Tuesday you can watch a national team train on the jumps and then go get on a zipline yourself.
It is also going back into service. The venue is on the schedule for the 2034 Winter Games, which Utah is hosting, so the next decade here is one of investment rather than decline.
Riding the sliding track
Over 60 mph Four to five G Add-on price
The Comet bobsled experience is the headline. You get into a bobsled on the same track used at the 2002 Games, a professional pilot drives, and you go down it at more than 60 miles an hour under something like four to five times the force of gravity.
It costs real money, it lasts about a minute, and the number of people who describe it as a waste is close to zero. For the 2026 season it was sold as a 75 dollar add-on to a day pass and had to be bought in person rather than online.
It runs in summer as well as winter, on wheels rather than runners in the warm months, which surprises people who assume it is a January-only proposition.
Most Olympic venues become a plaque. This one still throws members of the public down the track at sixty miles an hour.
The ski jumps, and what happens to them in July
Nordic hills Extreme tubing Included on the pass
The ski-jump complex is the silhouette you see from the highway, and it is the part of the park that most obviously still does its original job. Jumpers train here through the year, including onto water in the summer, which is worth stopping to watch even if you have no interest in the sport.
The public version is Extreme Tubing, which sends you down the same Nordic jump hills the athletes use, on a tube rather than a pair of skis. It is included on the day pass and it is a great deal more alarming than the name suggests.
Standing at the base of a large hill and looking up it is the single best way to understand what these athletes are actually doing.
The day pass, and what it covers
Ten to five One price Confirm current rates
For the 2026 season the park ran an 80 dollar full-day Gold Pass covering the Alpine Slide, Extreme Tubing, the Extreme Zipline, the Freestyle Zipline, the Discovery Course and the Action Tower, with activities running from 10 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon.
In peak season, roughly from late June to the middle of August, the park adds a Drop Tower, the Canyon Ropes Course, the Summit Ropes Course and airbag jumps. Outside that window the list is shorter, which is worth knowing before you drive up in late September expecting everything.
Prices and inclusions change every season. Treat these figures as a shape rather than a quote, and check the current ones.
The part that costs nothing
The grounds Athletes training Free
You do not have to buy anything. Walking the grounds and watching athletes train is free, and it is arguably the best thing on offer here. There are very few places in the world where the public can stand and watch elite jumpers and sliders working at close range without a ticket or a competition.
The park also holds museum space covering the 2002 Games and the sport that came out of them, which is a reasonable rainy-afternoon answer.
If you are here with somebody who does not want to be strapped into anything, this is the version of the visit that still works. More free options across town are on the free things guide.
What 2034 changes
Salt Lake City hosts The venue returns
Utah is hosting the Winter Games again in 2034, and this park is part of the plan rather than a nostalgic footnote. That is the practical difference between Park City and a lot of former Olympic towns: the infrastructure here was never mothballed, so it does not have to be rebuilt.
For anyone thinking about the area over a longer horizon, that means a decade of venue investment, event traffic and attention rather than the slow fade that usually follows a Games. It is a genuine factor in how this corner of Utah develops.
It is also a reason the traffic conversation here is not going away. The honest version of that, along with the rest of the practical picture, sits on the Park City city guide.
Doing the park well
- Go on a weekday if you can, and go early. The pass runs from ten to five and the queues for the marquee activities build through the afternoon.
- Peak season is roughly late June through mid August. Outside it, several activities do not run, so check what is open before you commit to a drive.
- The bobsled ride is a separate purchase and, for the 2026 season, had to be bought in person. Do not assume you can add it online at the last minute.
- Watching costs nothing. If the pass is not in the budget, the grounds and the training are still worth the trip.
