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Solitude Mountain Resort
Solitude lives up to its name on most weekdays: a quieter Cottonwood resort with a small European-style village, the steep backside of Honeycomb Canyon and a Nordic center at Silver Lake.
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Plan your visit: access, parking and practical details
Check the operator’s current fees, reservations, parking, transit, restrooms and accessibility arrangements before leaving. Confirm specific mobility or sensory needs directly with the venue.
Official visitor information ↗Snow report
The conditions page brings together snow, weather and mountain information. Check which season the report covers.
How to read a snow report
- 24-hour / 48-hour snowfall
- New snow over the stated reporting window. The 48-hour total includes the 24-hour window; don’t add them together.
- Base depth
- Snow on the ground at the resort’s reporting location, which can differ from conditions elsewhere on the mountain.
- Season snowfall
- Snow accumulated over the season’s reporting period, rather than the depth currently on the ground.
- Forecast
- A prediction of future snow, separate from measured snowfall. Snowfall alone does not establish which lifts or trails are open.
Use the source’s update date and time zone, especially around overnight storms. Off-season or stale reports may retain old readings. A missing or undated report does not mean no snow.
Solitude sits a few miles below Brighton in Big Cottonwood Canyon and gets the same storms with noticeably shorter lift lines. The front side is groomed cruisers and gentle glades that suit intermediates. The real draw for strong skiers is Honeycomb Canyon on the back side, a long gully of chutes, cliffs and trees that funnels down to a single return lift.
The Moonbeam base and the small village at the Inn at Solitude give the resort a calm, walkable feel, and the Solitude Nordic Center at Silver Lake grooms classic and skate tracks and snowshoe trails in a high meadow ringed by peaks. Solitude is the one Utah mountain where the full Ikon Pass gives unlimited days.
Maps and mountain orientation
Use the resort trail map to compare base areas, lifts and named runs before setting out. Then check the operator’s mountain report for the lifts and trails scheduled to operate on your visit.
Official resort maps
- Solitude maps: winter, summer, Nordic and base area ↗
- Solitude winter trail map (PDF) ↗
- Solitude winter base-area map (PDF) ↗
- Solitude Nordic trail map (PDF) ↗
Find this resort on the Utah and Wasatch locator maps →
Choose your arrival plan
Moonbeam is the principal day-guest lot. For 2026–27, reservations are required before 11 a.m. Friday–Sunday and designated holidays from December 18 through March 28. The separate Nordic Center generally uses weekends and holidays, with its own guest validation. Village parking has different eligibility; use the operator’s lot map before choosing an entrance.
Known for
- Honeycomb Canyon
- Short weekday lift lines
- Nordic center at Silver Lake
- Unlimited days on the full Ikon Pass
Good to know
- For 2026–27, the Moonbeam lot requires parking reservations before 11 a.m. Friday through Sunday and on designated holidays, from December 18 through March 28. Parking there is free after 11 a.m., and cars with four or more people park free but still need a reservation.
- The Nordic Center lot is for Nordic Center guests and has its own rules: reservations before 11 a.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from December 19, and a permit from the Nordic Center once you park.
- UTA ski buses serve Solitude and Brighton from the valley and are free for Ikon and many local passholders.
- Big Cottonwood’s traction-device rules apply in storms. Rental cars without snow tires can be turned around at the canyon mouth.
- Honeycomb Canyon terrain opens late on storm days while patrol does avalanche work. Lap the front side until it opens.