Canyons Village's Gondola Story Is Finished. Its Parking Story Isn't.
September 24, 2026
September 24, 2026
On the morning of March 29, 2026, Park City Mountain handed out donuts at the top of the Cabriolet and ran a Cash Cab Giveaway for anyone still riding the open-air lift on its last day. By the next morning, crews had already broken ground on its replacement, a fully enclosed 10-person gondola called the Canyons Village Skyway, and on the final three levels of the parking structure that feeds it.
The Skyway will bring floor-to-ceiling windows, protection from wind chill, and a mid-station connecting the middle of the village to the lift system. Those upgrades are worth knowing about if you live here. For anyone parking a car at Canyons Village this winter, the garage opening date matters too: last season, the first phase opened after lifts began running, and this season the full garage is expected to open in early December while Park City Mountain hopes to start lifts on Nov. 20.
The Cabriolet had run the same route since it opened, carrying skiers and summer visitors from the Lower Village parking lot up to the Canyons Village Forum. The Cabriolet was serviceable, and its open-air ride could be cold. It is being replaced by an enclosed Skyway. Laurel Simpson, general counsel for Canyons master developer TCFC Finance, told Summit County Council the team wanted to "get ahead of any confusion" as construction moved into its final phase, and that instinct has held up. The Skyway and the last stretch of the parking garage both broke ground March 30, both targeting completion in time for the 2026-27 season.
The Skyway itself is a genuine upgrade in kind, not just comfort. It's engineered to run 11 or more hours a day, which makes it a transportation system rather than a ski amenity that shuts down at last chair. Spanning roughly 2,700 feet and climbing close to 200 feet, it will carry people from the new five-level, 1,840-stall parking structure directly to the Forum, the same route the Cabriolet ran, just enclosed and heavier duty.
The Skyway includes a mid-station near Silverado Lodge, giving homeowners and lodging properties between the parking structure and the Forum lift access they have not had before. Under the old Cabriolet, if you weren't at one end or the other, you walked. This winter, for the first time, the middle of the village gets its own on-ramp to the mountain.
That's the kind of change that shows up in daily patterns before it shows up in any market report. It's one thing to read that a resort invested in its lift infrastructure. It's another to know that a specific stretch of the village, one that's been walking distance to everything except the actual lifts, now has a stop of its own.
The gondola is a major upgrade, and the garage opening timeline is another practical detail to consider when planning for winter.
Here's the sequence, in order:
The Skyway and garage are major upgrades. For drivers arriving in the first weeks of the season, the garage's expected opening date is another practical detail to consider.
The pricing structure for the finished garage is set, even if the calendar isn't. According to Park City Mountain's own winter parking plan and KPCW's April 2026 reporting on the new fee schedule, here's what residents are working with once the full structure is live:
That last point is the one to hold onto. Surface parking has been the reliable fallback for two seasons running, garage delay or not.
There's a piece of this that doesn't depend on any construction timeline at all. High Valley Transit's Route 109, known locally as the Snowball Express, runs free from the Jeremy Ranch and Ecker Hill park-and-rides straight into Canyons Village and Mountain Village. Last winter it started rolling Dec. 7, right around when the garage's first phase was still catching up to opening day. It's a route that exists independent of whatever's happening with concrete and steel down at the base, which makes it the one piece of this whole system that residents can plan around with confidence.
For this winter, the Skyway is a real upgrade to daily life, especially if your unit sits near that new Silverado Lodge mid-station, where lift access simply didn't exist before. Park City Mountain expects the full garage to open in early December, while hoping to start lifts Nov. 20. Last season, the first phase opened after opening day.
If you're weighing how a season like this actually plays out for someone who owns here, that's the kind of detail that only shows up after you've watched it happen once already. INHABIT Park City spends a lot of time walking that line between what a resort announces and what a neighborhood actually experiences once the snow starts falling. If you'd like to talk through what a winter at Canyons Village really looks like day to day, we'd be glad to schedule a neighborhood tour and show you around before you decide anything.
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