Summertime in Park City

This past Friday Park City celebrated the summer solstice with a party on Main Street featuring live music and great food. We revisited an old Park City tradition by putting a long table down the center of Main Street with restaurants serving dinner to guests. This was accompanied by live jazz music of which the highlight was the Park City High School Jazz Band. The Park City High School Jazz Band has won numerous awards throughout the country and was definitely the hit of the evening. Music and revelry lasted well into the night.

This week we are enjoying the calm before all of the 4th of July festivities start. This Wednesday really kicks off the summer season with the first of the free Deer Valley Wednesday Night Concerts. These free concerts feature local musicians and are the highlight of each week. Residents and visitors turn out in great numbers to sit on the lawn at Deer Valley with dinner and wine, re-acquaint themselves with friends they haven’t seen over the winter, and enjoy a beautiful summer evening.

All of the golf courses are open and going strong. The course maintenance people have done a spectacular job of bringing the courses back from a very long winter and while there is still snow in the mountains, it’s wonderful to see the lush, green fairways of our local golf courses. The new Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at Promontory is now in its first full summer of play and the word is that it is perhaps the best course in Utah. I hope to be able to make this determination personally in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile I have played the Mark O'Meara course at Tuhaye several times over the past month and have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The views and terrain changes at Tuhaye are spectacular and make for a very interesting round of golf.

In real estate news, we are definitely seeing an increase in business. Summer visitors are here and are now looking to purchase properties that they saw last winter, and in anticipation of the upcoming ski season. As I have mentioned several times, the summer months are the perfect time to pick up a vacation property. It is easy to get into all of the properties and sellers tend to be more willing to negotiate now than during the busy winter season. So plan a vacation, come to Park City in the summer, and experience the warm days and cool nights of summer in the mountains.