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Sundance Resort in Utah’s Wasatch Range grew from the Stewart family’s mid-nineteenth-century holdings at Stewart Flats into a mountain retreat and ski area on Mount Timpanogos. Easier road access and the mountain’s rising popularity with hikers helped open the area to visitors, and Timp Haven began ski operations in 1944 under S. Paul Stewart. After expanding through new lifts and winter activities, the resort entered a new era when Robert Redford bought it in 1968 and renamed it Sundance. He broadened it beyond skiing into a year-round cultural destination, helping launch the U.S. Film Festival and the Sundance Institute while also emphasizing long-term land conservation.
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Sundance, Utah · United States
