Solitude

About this city

Also known as: The Uncrowded Powder Sanctuary

Tucked inside the rugged, high-altitude alpine ridges of Big Cottonwood Canyon in eastern Salt Lake County just forty minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, Solitude is an upscale, unincorporated resort community world-renowned as a premier four-season mountain sanctuary. Established in the mid-20th century and geologically blessed with the Wasatch Range's legendary dry, high-density snowfall, the community's name beautifully translates to 'solitude,' reflecting its pristine, crowd-free European-style alpine village aesthetic. The town landscape presents a strikingly wild, uncommercialized sub-alpine environment, fiercely protected to preserve its deep evergreen pine forests and crystalline freshwater bogs. Today, Solitude coordinates a highly sophisticated hospitality economy, pairing its gingerbread-trimmed village chalets with immediate access to technical rock climbing and some of the world's most celebrated deep powder ski slopes.