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Park City Locals to Sundance Crowd: Go Home

JetSetLara weighs in on Sundance.Apparently, hotels and condos do just fine, but the locals wouldn't mind seeing the "coffee crowd" stay west of the rockies.

As you can imagine, the festival's crowd tends to be younger and less affluent than the usual Park City visitors. Furthermore, it scares away many skiers and the lifts remain well under capacity even when the weather conditions are excellent (much like this weekend). Hotels and condos do great business of course, but keep in mind many of them are owned by large corporations, not local residents. I should specify that locals are generally very friendly, just not during the festival.

Unfortunately, if you are looking to snag a mountainside hotel room to take advantage of the empty mountains during Sundance, you will probably still get tagged with a Sundance hotel room rate.  The whole town tends to raise rates during festival week.