Rocky Mountain highs around Park City, Utah, can mean a lot more than schussing the slopes.
Imagine a strategy meeting for a couple dozen people inside a 120-meter Nordic Jump start house. The panorama of surrounding peaks can provide a metaphor for reaching desirable performance highs, not to mention awe. Or maybe putting teams on a bobsled track or a wheeled luge race course would bring home the desired objectives.
These are just a few group options inside Utah Olympic Park, site of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. The park offers the more-expected, too—like meeting facilities within its museum that chronicles the 2002 games, or the Quinney Conference Room with its floor-to-ceiling views of the Snyderville Basin and Uintah Mountain Range.
“Many of our business groups call on local Park City-based Olympians like Chris Waddell or Jim Shea Jr. for inspirational speeches and athletic demonstrations,” says Linda Jager, marketing manager for the Utah Athletic Foundation.
Flying Ace Productions, operated by Olympians Trace Worthington and Fuzz Feddersen, frequently brings gold medal glitter to park-based events. When The Flying Ace All-Stars—a group of Olympians, world champions, trampolinists, and acrobats—do their thing, everyone gets entertained and possibly inspired for the next level of performance.
Event customization sometimes means Flying Ace invites groups to do more than spectate. Yes, guests may ski with Olympians, or they can just spend an evening with them and quiz them about their careers and life philosophies, according to Worthington.
“By having dinner together, everyone can tap into the Olympic mystique,” he says.
Surprise and humor sometimes enter the event mix, too, Jager says.
“Probably our most requested activity involves a ski jump into a freestyle training pool by the CEO,” she says. “Everyone goes wild.”
National Ability Center is another group-friendly Park City platform, and sits on 26 acres. Established in 1985 as a nonprofit organization committed to the development of life skills for individuals of all ages and abilities, the center offers year-round programs like skiing, horseback riding, rock climbing, and cycling within its adventure learning programs. Business groups that have the objectives of improving communication, problem solving and team effectiveness frequently use the center’s Universal Challenge Course with its collection of high and low challenge course elements.
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