Sundance Mountain Resort

Sundance, United States

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Robert Redford’s Sundance Utah is a four season resort in the mountains of Utah that offers Utah skiing, mountain biking, theater, fine dining, zoom, tree room, foundry grill, The Owl Bar, art workshops, lodging, and Sundance Film Festival.

History

Established in 1969.

Robert Redford bought the land now known as Sundance in 1969 and envisioned a community committed to the balance of art, nature and community. Investors advised Redford to fill the picturesque canyon with lucrative housing, but Redford instead saw his newly acquired land as an ideal locale for environmental conservation — «to develop a little and to preserve a great deal» — and for artistic experimentation.

Today, Sundance offers an atmosphere steeped in cultural heritage, from the Ute tribes that first inhabited this canyon to the ownership of the Stewart family. These Scottish immigrants developed the mountain into a small ski resort: Timp Haven.

Years of experimentation and refinement have ultimately resulted in what we now call Sundance. Many writers, directors, actors and artists have been inspired by the beauty of this canyon. It’s Sundance’s ability to blend process and place that makes it dynamically unique and places it on uncharted waters on a steady course all of its own.