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Casey Lane

Casey Lane is a Southern California transplant based in Park City, where she is a freelance writer. When she's not enticing visitors to savor the nooks and crannies of her small town she is a home chef, skier, avid mountain biker, and spin instructor. She is mom to two cats and one tiny pup who is also the star of her LGBT children's books, Lucky Love.

Wayfinding on Pathway Trails and Summit Bike Share

Over the years Park City’s single-track has become the resident star of summer, thrilling hikers and mountain bikers through successive switchbacks, challenging terrain, and groves of glittering Aspens. But for those who are looking for a way to take in our town’s extensive network of connected trails without padded gloves, shorts, or specialized shoes, the paved pathway system, either on foot or with the help of Summit Bike Share’s extensive fleet of electric bikes, has been upgraded to guide locals and visitors from Kimball Junction to Deer Valley, and everywhere in between…

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Dolly's Bookstore

A black tuxedo cat crosses my path as I walk between Gifts and History, again as I move from Business to Spirituality, and finally, ducks into a hallway reserved for Employees Only, somewhere between Fiction and Kids – his name, is Dolly…

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National Ability Center

Park City, Utah, is known for being home to two major ski resorts, and an action sports hub catering to everyone from first-timers to Olympic athletes. But for many, including veterans and those with disabilities, a fourth organization sits just minutes away, the National Ability Center, sprawling across 26 acres of modified lodging and recreation that services the same range of skills, but in unique and “adaptive” ways…

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How Park City Maintains Award-Winning Trails

Between thickets of pine trees, sagebrush, and rock are the caramel dirt roads of the Park City trail system. Trails that lead the town to tip and summit to lake, winding through wildflowers, climbing past Aspens, skipping over snowmelt creeks, and gliding across grassy ski runs. Trails that bloom as winter fades, flowering with a new season of sport in a town that seems to call hikers and bikers with the same volume and enthusiasm it does skiers and snowboarders, saying boldly, with her red tulips and blue skies, I’ve changed, again, and maybe, for the better .  …

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