Historic Sites

Welcome to The Park City Museum. This is one good place to start or finish your Historic Mine hike. The museum is the place to learn more about Park City’s mining history…

Look for the building with the half-circle porch awning on the second floor off Main Street. That’s the original Union Pacific Railroad Depot, built in 1886. It’s one of the key surviving…

See those rails in the sidewalk? This is the old Crescent Tramway railroad. You can see a photo of the train on the Interpretive Sign to your left. Those lines are re-creations…

Throughout Park City, street names, buildings, and ski runs honor mining owners and tycoons. This Ol’ Miner Statue instead honors the thousands of often unnamed miners who worked Park City’s mines for…

Welcome to the off-street section of your hiking adventure along the Historic Mine Route. If you are coming from the Museum, you are entering a multi-use trail system, where you may encounter…

Looking down at Old Town, you can see Park City’s Town Lift. It's one of the few places in the U.S. where you can take a chairlift to and from a town's…

In the middle of this ski run was one of Park City’s earliest silver mines, discovered in 1875. That’s before Park City was even a city! Ore production was reported in the…

This area is locally known as Treasure Hill, because of the vast wealth generated by the mines which were located here. As you wander, you will often encounter traces of Park City’s…

Whew! You are about two-thirds of the way to The Silver King Coalition Mine if you’re hiking uphill. The steel towers along the trail were part of its aerial tram, which carried…

You are standing in the middle of Park City’s most successful mine, the Silver King Coalition Mine. It’s the largest surviving group of mining-era structures in town. The sign in front of…

The building in front of you was the center of the Silver King Coalition Mine, Park City’s biggest producer of silver and lead. Look through the windows in the tall section to…

The large building on the far side of the gulch was The Silver King Coalition Mill. The lower photo on the sign shows what it looked like during the later days of…

You have reached the intersection of John’s 99 and Mother Urban trails. The large hotel in the distance is the Montage Deer Valley, built on the former Daly West Mine site. You’ll…

You’re approaching the wooden Alliance Watchman’s Cabin, built in 1895 as both an office and home. Part of the Alliance Mine complex, it stands near the steel building across the way and…

Why, you may be asking yourself, is there just half a building in front of me? The Alliance Mine’s owners tore down the missing half when they buried the Alliance drain tunnel…

You stand before The Judge Mining and Smelting Office Building, the only remaining concrete office building from Park City’s mining era. Can you see the letters J, M and S on the…

Look for the concrete bunker among the Aspen trees just up the hill. The “Explosives” sign says it all. Behind its iron door, explosives were kept under lock and key, then loaded…

Just below you once stood the massive Daly-Judge Mill. The concrete foundation with the power-line pole marks the Superintendent’s house shown on the sign. The mill processed ore delivered by mine cars…

Look beyond this sign, up the canyon, where you see a stand of pine trees on the left. To the right, in the distance, is a peak. Where the peak and the…

The Interpretive Sign shows what The American Flag Mine looked like back in the day. The hillsides were stripped of trees long before the early 1900s, which is the date of the…

The steel tower, which stands before you, was part of the Daly-Judge Aerial Tramway built in 1925. It operated like a ski chairlift but was designed to haul ore down from the…

For those of you following our tour route from sites 1 to 24, you’ve almost reached the end of the Historic Mine Route. There are a few other historic stories to hear…

In the 1930s, ore buckets once moved overhead into this loading station, where their contents dropped into rail cars below. This was the Daly-Judge Aerial Tram, carrying ore from mines above to…

You’re standing at the Ontario No. 1 Drain Tunnel complex. Opened in 1881, the tunnel extends more than 6,300 feet up the canyon to the Ontario No. 3 shaft, the brown industrial…