Park City School District unveils progress on new Kearns Boulevard athletic facilities

Park City High School Athletics Tour Photo: TownLift//Randi Sidman-Moore

PARK CITY, Utah — Construction is steadily transforming the Park City School District’s Kearns Boulevard campus, where new athletic facilities are taking shape ahead of their anticipated opening.

Fans of soccer, football, tennis, lacrosse, baseball, softball and track and field will all have something to look forward to when the finished facilities are unveiled during a community ribbon-cutting ceremony planned for later this year.

For now though, crews are hard at work on the approximately $38 million athletic complex, which is expected to be completed in August.

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During a behind-the-scenes tour of the construction site Wednesday, TownLift got a look at the nearly completed facilities.

One of those upgrades is the new public address system, which has already undergone testing.

“It rattled some school windows,” Principal Fine said, explaining that the appropriate volume levels have been achieved to communicate specifically within the stadium and not out into the adjacent neighborhoods. 

Nearby, significantly expanded locker rooms will allow teams to run directly onto the field when announced. Officials now also have their own rooms to rest before, during, and after games.

Equipment storage for the sports has its place too, as well as building spaces for the maintenance machines to plow snow off of turf fields. 

The stadium lighting is also receiving a major upgrade. Like the new sound system, the lights have been engineered to enhance the game-day experience while limiting spillover into neighboring homes through directional design and shielding.

School Board Vice President Nick Hill also toured the site and said the new complex will benefit both current students and the broader Park City community.

“It’s going to be an amazing place for our student-athletes to utilize, and this will be a community facility as well,” Hill told TownLift. “It’s exciting to know that this isn’t just about the experience for our existing student-athletes, but is inspirational to the student-athletes of the future as well.”

The tour donned hard hats to weave in and out of the sites adjacent to the elementary school and the high school, the later of which will get new, larger signage welcoming spectators into Dozier Field. 

Perhaps no one was more thrilled with the progress than District Superintendent Lindsay Huntsman, herself a multi-sport athlete when she was in high school.

“This project, when finished, aims to boost school spirit,” she told TownLift. “The Miners don’t need any tangible thing to accomplish that; however, it will provide a space to gather and be present. Whether its parents, siblings, or student-athletes engaged in sports different than their exact teams’ time of practices. It’s centralized location can bring the whole town together.”

Huntsman summed it up best when she said, “I believe that athletics can teach our kids a lot a bout leadership skills, and gives them something bigger than themselves to aspire to and work towards.”