Park City Mountain reshapes terrain for Shaun White’s Snow League halfpipe

Park City Mountain Resort works on construction for new half-pipe. Photo: TownLift

PARK CITY, Utah — While summer hikers and mountain bikers navigate dusty trails and warm temperatures at Park City Mountain, crews are already hard at work preparing for winter’s biggest new event.

The resort is reshaping terrain near the Eagle and Three Kings lift area to create an high performance-caliber halfpipe venue that will host Shaun White’s Snow League when the competition comes to Park City Jan. 22–24, 2027. The project is significant enough that portions of the Lower Silver Spur trail have been closed this summer while construction continues.

In a recent social media update, halfpipe builder Eric Rosenwald described the scope of the undertaking, saying the project has involved months of detailed planning and precision earthmoving.

“A lot of people think building a halfpipe is just shaping snow into a cool shape,” Rosenwald said. “But we started thinking about this two to three months ago with intense planning.”

According to Rosenwald, crews are using digital models to guide the construction and know their position “within two centimeters” during the dirt work phase. The amount of material being moved, he said, would cover eight football fields one foot deep.

The goal is to create a halfpipe that requires dramatically less snow while delivering a larger competition venue.

“This pipe will be 60% less snow, and be about 125 feet longer,” Rosenwald said. “We are embarking on pushing the bleeding edge of halfpipe forward.”

The redesign is expected to improve snowmaking efficiency and allow the pipe to be built earlier and more reliably, a significant consideration after inconsistent snow conditions limited operations at Park City Mountain this season.

How the Snow League landed in Park City

The construction stems from an announcement made in March when three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White revealed that Park City Mountain would host a stop on the second season of The Snow League, his new professional halfpipe competition series.

White launched the league in 2025 with the goal of creating a more structured and financially sustainable future for snowboarders and freeskiers. The series features the world’s top halfpipe athletes competing in a global tour with larger prize purses and increased visibility for the sport.

At the March announcement event in Park City, White called the resort “one of the most important places in snowboarding and freeskiing,” pointing to its long history in competitive riding and its role as a future venue for the 2034 Winter Olympics.

The January 2027 event will feature elite snowboard and freeski halfpipe competition, live music, fan experiences, and a weekend-long celebration of winter sports culture. Organizers have positioned it as one of the premier stops on the league’s second season.

A return to Olympic-sized competition

The project also marks the return of a full 22-foot Olympic-sized halfpipe to Park City Mountain for the first time since the 2019 FIS World Championships. The resort’s traditional halfpipe has typically been an 18-foot build.

If all goes according to plan, the finished venue will debut this winter before welcoming the world’s best halfpipe riders to Park City next January.