Soldier Hollow

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Soldier Hollow is a cross-country ski resort located 53 miles (85 km) southeast of Salt Lake City in Wasatch Mountain State Park, Utah, USA. The resort was made for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and during the game a biathlon, cross country skiing and cross-country skiing section of a Nordic joint event was held. Since hosting the Olympics, it has been developed as a cross-country skiing, tubing and snowshoeing resort, while featuring mountain biking and golfing in the summer. On May 1, 2016, the operating contract of the premises was transferred from the Soldier Hollow Legacy Foundation to the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, which owns and operates several Olympic and Paralympic venues elsewhere in the state.

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History

Pre-Olympics

The Soldier Hollow is located in the southeastern state park of Wasatch Mountain, a 21.592 hectare (8,738Ãƒ, ha) nature reserve made in 1961, which became a state park in 1968. The Soldier Hollow location within the state park has no name until the organizer The Olympics created him a Soldier Hollow. The name was chosen because of its proximity to Soldier Springs, the summer camp used by Ute Indians, US Army surveyors of the 1850s and others. Prior to being a state park, certain locations within the park were used for farming and grazing activities, while most of the rest were used in recreation by local residents. In the last quarter of the 20th century, state park services have been approached by private developers who hope to build luxury hotels, golf courses and other attractions within the park, but none of these plans have ever worked.

Resort development

The Soldier Hollow is one of only three built and designed by the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) specifically for the 2002 Winter Olympics; with others being the Utah Olympic Park and the Utah Olympic Oval. The Hollow Soldier location was chosen by SLOC as the Olympic venue in October 1997, on top of several other possible locations including Sherwood Hills near Logan, Utah. Initial work began as soon as the location of the event was chosen, but major construction did not begin until 1999. The work at the site was complete (80% completed) to host its first major event, the US Cross Country Championship, on January 8, 2000. the inn began with a groundbreaking ceremony on July 5, 2000. The cottage was completed in December 2000 and dedicated on 5 January 2001. The place charges SLOC $ 22 million USD to build.

Winter Olympics & amp; 2002; Paralympics

During the 2002 game, Soldier Hollow organized a biathlon, cross-country skiing, and a Nordic joint event. The venue itself hosts over 64,160 spectators of biathlon, 99,320 cross-country viewers, and 1,794 Nordic joint viewers during these events. During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the venue hosts biathlon and cross-country events.

Soldier Hollow is the furthest from Salt Lake City with an estimated 2-2.5 hour drive from downtown during the game. Because of this distance from a large population center, a Western Experience is specially created in the audience to provide visitor activity to be conducted between competitions. Western experiences include music and entertainment, mountain encounters, pioneering pioneers, cowboy camps, wild Mustang exhibitions, and American Indian fairs, along with concessions.

To help reduce vehicular traffic in the local valleys during the game, and to give viewers a unique experience, SLOC reached an agreement with the historic Heber Valley Train to transport the crowd to the Soldier Hollow. A special station is built along a railroad near a place that allows for two to four trains, carrying 200 passengers each, per day. The Heber Valley Railroad 618 and 75 steam engine numbers, joined by the 93 steam engine Nevada Northern Railway Museum, drew eight full-seater trains, to the Hollow Soldier depot where they descended and proceeded to the entry on the horse-drawn sled.

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The resort of the day

The resort has been developed as a cross-country skiing, tubing and snowshoeing resort with a horse-drawn sled drawn nearby during winter, while featuring mountain biking, golfing, popular music festivals and international sheepdog competitions in the summer. It belongs to the State of Utah and part of Wasatch Mountain State Park. The State Parks and Recreation Division contracted the management of the premises to a nonprofit foundation.

Music festival

The Wasatch Mountain Music Festival will be held at Soldier Hollow on 14 - 16 July 2017. Under the direction and management of Vibrant America and Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation, Americana music festivals - bluegrass, country, Texas swing, folk, gypsy jazz - have an ideal setting in in the bays of Wasatch Mountain.

The large grassy staging area has two stages for non-stop music with a range of talented and diverse national recording artists and favorite local players.

There are overnight camping spaces, vendors and pujasera booths, family hiking or biking trails, and horseback riding nearby or on a cable car, along with pioneering camp history living with children's activities. The Heber Valley Railroad has scheduled a special "bandwagon" to bring visitors to the event.

With a mission to educate and entertain, Wasatch Mountain Music Festival will offer workshops from professionals, singers/songwriters, music events for children and an opportunity for all musicians to jam and build relationships.

Dropping dog competition

This site is also home to the Hollow Classic Hockey Championships and Festival, held on Labor Day weekend every year. Called "the world's leading shepherd trials" with some 28,000 people present, the event will take place over four days held September 1-4, 2017.