Deer Valley Resort Kicks Off the Ski Season with Celebrity SkiFest
Deer Valley, Utah (PRWeb) December 16, 2006 -- There is much excitement in store for guests planning to take part in Deer Valley Resort's opening day celebration, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006. In addition to sublime snow, the resort welcomes the Celebrity SkiFest, an invitational ski race featuring teams comprised of ski legends, celebrities and former Olympians. Festivities take place at Deer Valley Resort on the Birdseye ski trail located mid-mountain at Silver Lake. This event takes place on Deer Valley's opening day, Dec. 2, and will air on CBS on Dec. 17, 2006, at 5 p.m. EST following the NFL program. For further information please contact Deer Valley Resort at 435-649-1000 or 800-424-DEER (3337) or visit DeerValley.com.
Located just 36 miles from the Salt Lake City airport, the Park City area boasts three distinctive, world-class resorts: Park City, Deer Valley and The Canyons. Between them, skiers get diverse terrain, a wide range of schussing and, thanks to the Utah Winter Sports Park, the chance to bobsled or rocketsled down a 4,380-foot luge track! The great outdoors is more than matched by the great indoors. The area offers the best shopping, art galleries, spas and dining in the entire state. ResortQuest boasts the largest collection of exclusive private homes in both Park City's Historic District as well as the Deer Valley neighborhoods of Snow Park, Silver Lake and the new Empire Pass area. In addition, ResortQuest offers a variety of condominium vacation rentals located at all three resorts. For information or reservations visit ResortQuestParkCity.com or call 877-287-3364.
About ResortQuest
ResortQuest, one of the nation's leading vacation rentals hospitality and resort real estate companies, provides a one-stop resource in North America's premier resort destinations, ResortQuest.com. ResortQuest is the largest marketer and management company of vacation condominiums and vacation rentals in the U.S. and Canada, based on a portfolio of nearly 17,000 vacation rental properties, including ocean front rentals and ski vacations, with a combined real estate value estimated at approximately $7 billion. ResortQuest Real Estate is one of the nation's leading real estate companies focusing exclusively on resort properties, offering superior brokerage services in the country's premier beach, ski and golf destinations. ResortQuest employs more than 4,000 people and is owned and operated by Gaylord Entertainment Co. (NYSE: GET), one of the largest and fastest growing companies in the hospitality and entertainment industries, based in Nashville, Tenn., that also owns and operates Gaylord Hotels and the Grand Ole Opry. For more information, visit ResortQuest.com or GaylordEntertainment.com.
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