Park City Is Replacing Its Open-Air Cabriolet With a 10-Person Gondola
Canyons Village gets an enclosed Skyway, a finished garage, a 22-foot superpipe, and the resort's first remote avalanche-control system for 2026-27.
Park City Mountain is heading into winter with a real arrival upgrade on the Canyons side: the 10-person Canyons Village Skyway gondola, which replaces the open-air Cabriolet that has ferried guests up from the lower village for decades.
TownLift reported the resort's September brand drop, but the hardware is the story. The Skyway is enclosed, with floor-to-ceiling glass, and includes a mid-station for lodging in the mid-village. Park City has said the gondola is meant to ride with the new Canyons Village parking structure so day skiers stop doing the old lot-to-Cabriolet shuffle.
Parking will cost, with a few outs
The garage is priced at $29 a day. Free parking after noon, free carpool stalls for four or more people, and a season parking pass are part of the mix. Limited first-come surface parking is supposed to remain in the lot beside the garage. KPCW reported the structure may not be fully open on the hoped-for Nov. 20 lift start, with early December as a more realistic garage date. Surface lots would cover the gap.
Epic Pass holders chasing a Wasatch week should treat Canyons arrival as a reservation problem, not a given. Mountain Village paid-reservation lots are unchanged. The new Skyway is free to ride once you are in the system, which is the one piece of the old Cabriolet logic that survives.
More than a base gondola
Park City also installed its first remote avalanche-control system in Limelight Bowl, a safety and speed play for opening avalanche terrain. The 22-foot superpipe is back, reshaped with 3D modeling, and will host The Snow League on Jan. 21-23, 2027 before staying in the park. Planning Commission approval for Silverlode Express and Eagle lift upgrades points to more uphill work after this winter.
If you are comparing Utah flags, this is the Epic side of the Wasatch getting a cleaner front door while Deer Valley keeps expanding East Village. The Skyway will not add acreage. It will decide whether a Canyons powder morning starts in a cabin or in a wind-blasted open chair.
Primary reporting: TownLift.
Day skiers coming from Salt Lake should still plan a buffer. Construction at Canyons has already changed how Lower Village connects to the Forum, and opening week will mix new steel with old parking habits. If the Skyway is spinning and the garage is not, use the surface lots and treat the gondola as the one guaranteed piece of the new arrival path.