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What a trip to Park City costs

A week in Park City for eight people works out around $14,800 before flights — $529 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $87 per adult per day for food. From Chicago, Denver, Seattle and Phoenix it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A former silver-mining town within easy reach of Salt Lake City, with a preserved Main Street and two adjoining ski resorts, Park City Mountain and Deer Valley.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$3,700	$2,440	$6,140	$1,530
8 people	$9,970	$4,870	$14,800	$1,850
12 people	$13,600	$7,310	$20,900	$1,740

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Park City compares

Park CityMountains median of 8All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Park City runs $738 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 151% above the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the most expensive of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 47% above the typical mountain ($503), the most expensive of 8 mountains.

Its season swings 119% between its cheapest and most expensive months, against 85% for the typical mountain. Timing matters more here than it does for most mountains.
The same week costs $4,390 more in January than in April on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
It is at its most expensive in January and cheapest in April — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Driving beats four seats from Chicago, Denver, Seattle and Phoenix. The longest of those is Chicago — 1,383 road miles and 22.4h each way, and only $186 cheaper than four seats — thin enough that most groups would fly anyway.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in April, at $3,703 for the whole property — $8,093 for the same week in January.
The sharpest single step is between March and April: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $4,390.
The closest thing to it on price is San Diego, CA, a beach town: $14,973 for a week for eight against $14,838 here, $135 apart — the same money for a completely different trip.

When to go

Park City is at its most expensive in January and cheapest in April — a 119% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$1,156
February	$1,156
March	$1,156
April	$529
May	$529
June	$529
July	$529
August	$529
September	$529
October	$529
November	$529
December	$1,156

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$484	7.9h	$2,662	28.3h3 days	flying
Chicago	$572*	5.5h	$2,102	22.4h3 days	driving
Dallas	$270*	4.9h	$1,677	17.9h2 days	flying
Denver	$208*	3.6h	$697	8.0h	driving
Los Angeles	$228*	4.1h	$1,028	11.3h2 days	flying
New York	$436*	8.8h	$3,322	35.3h4 days	flying
Seattle	$374*	4.3h	$1,187	12.9h2 days	driving
Phoenix	$238*	3.9h	$892	9.9h	driving

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.