In the mountains of Utah, disc golf is growing as an inexpensive, easy-to-learn pastime that can be played by young and old. A round of nine or 18 holes gets you up and into the meadows and trees around the state’s ski and snowboard resorts.

As the summer wanes here in Park City, Utah, here are five things to do before the snow flies. 

Treasure Mountain, Park City Ski Area, Park City Mountain Resort, PCMR. Now there’s a new name on the 50+ year-old ski area’s business card -- Park City Mountain. The rebranding (the first since the mid-1990s) will go full-bore public later this month. 

Unanimous approval from the Park City Planning Commission has been given to Vail Resorts to implement an ambitious capital plan for the 2015-2016 to establish the connection between Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort.

Park City, Utah is going to look like a gigantic construction zone if everybody gets their way this summer. 

Just when we thought things would finally quiet down in Park City, Utah, Deer Valley reasserts its plan to run a gondola right into town. Never a dull moment.

An eight-passenger gondola will be the centerpiece of Vail Resorts’ strategy for connecting Canyons Resort with Park City Mountain Resort. The Colorado-based resort group revealed its plans for bringing the two neighboring mountains together – and solidifies Vail’s intention to create the largest ski and snowboarding area in the United States since acquiring Park City Mountain this offseason.

Vail Resorts, Inc. has appointed Bill Rock, the current chief operating officer of Northstar California Resort, as the new chief operating officer of Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort, effective November 1, 2014.

Attorneys in the heated lease dispute between two of Park City’s ski and snowboard resorts have turned their attention to how much money Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) should post in a bond that would keep the resort open for at least next season.

Season tickets for 2014-2014 at Park City Mountain Resort will come with a promise to refund all or some of that cost if its landlord-neighbor wins a pending lawsuit – and the resort would close.

A Utah district judge heard oral arguments Thursday (April 3) in the litigation between the owners of Park City Mountain Resort and Canyons Resort.

The ongoing legal dispute between Park City Mountain Resort and Talisker Land Holdings took another twist this week with a proposal from Vail Resorts to buy the only land that the resort owns outright -- an offer that was flatly rejected by Powdr Corp., the resort's parent company.

Vail Resorts is the newcomer on the block in Park City, Utah with the Canyons, but the Colorado-based company is looking to make a good impression on the local citizenry.

UPDATE 8/30/13: Vail Resorts has told Park City Mountain Resort it will not interfere with PCMR's resort operations for the 2013-14 season. This is in light of the eviction notice Talisker Land Holdings/Vail Resorts slapped on PCMR Wednesday.

Ding, ding, ding. Ladies and Gentlemen! In this corner, Talisker Land Holdings Corp. (TLH) from Toronto, Canada, weighing in at six Park City real estate developments, and the former operator of Canyons Ski Resort. And in this corner, Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR), about to celebrate its 50th year in Summit County, Utah, weighing in at 3,700 acres.

If the lease of Canyons Resort to Vail Resorts (VR) in early June got folk’s attention in Park City, Utah, then the news last week that Talisker Corporation (VR’s “landlord” in that deal) is pulling out of Canyons altogether is certainly keeping the buzz going in the beehive state. 

Vail Resorts has announced it has signed a long-term, 50-year lease, to operate Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah. It’s Vail’s second attempt to gain a big Utah foothold and this one worked out.

Easter is early this year, but that doesn’t stop kids and adults spending the holiday at ski resorts across the country from looking forward to a visit with the Easter Bunny. Here’s a sampling of some of those activities offered.

Things just got a bit more interesting for World Cup freestylers and their fans, as now, athletes in halfpipe, moguls and aerials will be vying for victory on the same mid-winter weekend in the Park City area.