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Car-free, care-free summer Sundays are back on Main St.

Michele Roepke
May 27, 2021

Historic Main Street, Park City will host car-free summer Sundays. Photo: Michele Roepke

PARK CITY, Utah. — Starting on June 6, Historic Old Town’s Main Street will have car-free Sundays. A holdover from last summer as COVID was hemorrhaging business’ sustainability, the idea was utilized in multiple ski towns around the country also being successfully implemented in Park City.

Visit Park City reports that the program was so popular that it’s back for this summer.

It’s a win, win for pedestrians desiring to feel a certain level of pandemic protocols while they shop, dine, imbibe, exercise themselves or their dogs or merely people watch and for shop owners and shop keepers.

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By: Michele Roepke

Contact: mroepke@townlift.com

I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.

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