Eden, Utah — Nordic Valley had a brutal 2023-24 ski season. In December 2023, they introduced that Apollo, their core chairlift out of the bottom space, wouldn’t function that winter. Round a month later, their rustic base lodge burned down. Since then, the resilient crew at Nordic Valley has been selecting up the items.
This week, KSL.com caught up with Pascal Start, the Common Supervisor of Nordic Valley Ski Resort. Regardless of the hurdles thrown at them, Start described it as a profitable season for the Utah ski resort as a result of resiliency of his workers and assist from company. Now, work is underway to restore the Apollo chairlift and work out the lodge configurations for the following season.
Work on a brand new lodge is anticipated to start in both 2026 or 2027. The plans for the brand new base lodge, together with a gap date, have but to be finalized. Based on Start, the explanation why they aren’t offering extra particulars in regards to the lodge is that they’re nonetheless finalizing the plan:
“At this time limit, lots of ‘base space’ particulars nonetheless have to be ironed out earlier than publicly promoting them. Our essential efforts at present are occurring on the mountain. Getting our chairlift Apollo spinning in December is our precedence No. 1 and our essential summer season capital challenge.”
Within the meantime, they are going to use momentary constructions for numerous companies. Based on KSL.com, these might embody “yurts, trailers or all-weather cloth Sprung constructions.” These constructions will cowl their ticketing, meals, and leases.
It needs to be famous {that a} base village is deliberate for Nordic Valley’s base space. The deliberate village was permitted in December 2022, however a timeline for the event has not been introduced. As a part of the redevelopment, a reproduction of the previous barn is deliberate.
This offseason’s main for Nordic Valley is the restoration of the Apollo chairlift. Pascal Start described the scope of the restoration to KSL.com:
“We’re going by means of not only a restore of the chairlift, of what was not working, however an entire overhaul of the chairlift and evaluation of each part. Issues are going nice to date, and work is anticipated to be accomplished early this fall.”
Nordic Valley’s newest social media replace confirmed the Apollo chairlift spinning for the primary time in over a yr.
With this progress, Nordic Valley believes that work on Apollo will likely be accomplished by this fall, and will probably be operational for the 2024-25 season.
Picture Credit: Weber Fireplace District (Featured Picture), Nordic Valley Ski Resort, Nordic Valley Village
