Sun Valley, Idaho Sun Valley, Idaho Sun Valley, Idaho - Bald Mountain from Sun Valley Lake Sun Valley, Idaho Bald Mountain from Sun Valley Lake Sun Valley, Idaho is positioned in USA West Sun Valley, Idaho - Sun Valley, Idaho Sun Valley is a resort town/city in Blaine County in central Idaho, in the United States.
The resort is adjoining to the town/city of Ketchum and inside the greater Wood River valley.
The populace was 1,406 at the 2010 census, down from 1,427 in 2000. The altitude of Sun Valley (at the Lodge) is 5,920 feet (1,805 m) above sea level.
Visitors to Sun Valley are mostly close to the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, accessed over Galena Summit on Highway 75, the Sawtooth Scenic Byway.
Among skiers, the term "Sun Valley" refers to the alpine ski area, which consists of Bald Mountain, the chief ski mountain adjoining to Ketchum, and Dollar Mountain, adjoining to Sun Valley, for novice and lower intermediate skiers.
With its abundance of constant-pitch terrain, at varying degrees of difficulty, coupled with its substantial vertical drop and absence of wind, Baldy has often been referred to as one of the better ski mountain peaks in the world.
The term "Sun Valley" is used more generally to speak of the region encircling the city, including the neighboring town/city of Ketchum and the Wood River Valley region winding south to Hailey and Bellevue.
8 Sun Valley in prominent culture A lifelong skier, Harriman determined that America would embrace a destination mountain resort, similar to those he appreciateed in the Swiss Alps, such as St.
The Count toured Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Yosemite, the San Bernardino Mountains, Zion, Rocky Mountain National Park, the Wasatch Mountains, Pocatello, Jackson Hole, and Grand Targhee areas.
Late in his trip and on the brink of abandoning his search for an ideal locale for a mountain resort development, he backtracked toward the Ketchum region in central Idaho.
Schaffgotsch was impressed by the combination of Bald Mountain and its encircling mountain peaks, adequate snowfall, abundant sunshine, moderate elevation, and absence of wind, and chose it as the site.
Pioneering publicist Steve Hannigan, who had successfully promoted Miami Beach, Florida, was hired and titled the resort "Sun Valley." (Count Schaffgotsch returned to Austria and was killed on the Eastern Front amid World War II.) The centerpiece of the new resort was the Sun Valley Lodge, which opened 81 years ago in December 1936.
The Swiss-style Sun Valley Inn (originally the "Challenger Inn") and village were also part of the initial resort, opening in 1937.
Challenger Inn (now the Sun Valley Inn), c.
The world's first chairlifts were installed on the resort's Proctor and Dollar Mountains in the fall of 1936.
The chairlift went on to replace primitive rope tow and other adaptations seen at ski areas at the time. The initial Proctor Mountain Ski Lift is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hemingway Memorial at Trail Creek north of Sun Valley The Hemingway Memorial, dedicated in 1966, is just off Trail Creek Road, about a mile northeast of the Sun Valley Lodge.
Sun Valley was featured (and promoted) in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle, and bandleader Glenn Miller.
Sun Valley transfer small-town and future gold medalist Gretchen Fraser was the skiing stand-in for Henie.
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin, when stepping upon the surface of the Moon's Hadley Apennine, the avid skier exclaimed that it was like Sun Valley. Sun Valley's earliest resident was former actress and silent movie star Barbara Kent.
Among those associated with Sun Valley are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mark Zuckerberg, Mats Wilander, Warren Buffett, Walter Annenberg, Adam West, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Miller, Demi Moore, Peter Cetera, Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dreyfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Wynn, Justin Timberlake, Mohamed al-Fayed, Barbara Kent, Bill Gates, and Tony Robbins After the war, the resort's clinic directed on the third floor of the northern wing of the Sun Valley Lodge (wing closest to the Trail Creek Rd.) until the Sun Valley Community Hospital was assembled in 1961.
Noted ski film producer Warren Miller, while in his early twenties, wintered in Sun Valley from 1946 49, first living in a car and small teardrop trailer in the River Run parking lot.
During this time, he evolved from ski bum, to ski instructor, to ski filmmaker.
Miller has traveled and filmed all over the world, but until recent years, he continued to return to Sun Valley virtually every year.
He has featured Sun Valley in dozens of his annual films, which has helped publicize the Sun Valley region worldwide.
Rail service was discontinued to Ketchum in 1964 and that November the resort was sold to the Janss Investment Company, a primary Southern California real estate developer headed by a former Olympic ski team member, Bill Janss (1918 96), founder of Snowmass.
At the time for a chairlift. Bill Janss bought out his brother's share of the resort and attained full control of Sun Valley in 1968.
Janss also has a ski run titled after him, called "Janss Pass," to the skier's left of the Frenchman's chairlift.
Janss' wife Ann, age 54, died in 1973 while helicopter skiing near Sun Valley. Later that year, Janss married Mrs.
Under Janss' ownership, the Elkhorn region southeast of Dollar Mountain was advanced by the Sun Valley Company and Johns-Manville, beginning in 1972. During excavation, ancient tools dating back nearly 7,000 years were identified. Elkhorn's golf course was opened in the summer of 1975. For about $12 million, Holding purchased Sun Valley through his company, Sinclair Oil, which operates the Little America Hotels & Resorts. Holding was initially distrusted by many locals: "Earl is a Four Letter Word" was a prominent bumper sticker in the late 1970s in Blaine County.
An impressive day lodge, constructed of logs, river rock, and glass, opened at the base of Warm Springs in the fall of 1992, replacing the 1960s "Northface Hut" cafeteria. Similar day lodges were later opened at the Seattle Ridge summit (1993), and the River Run base (1995).
The chairlift from River Run was purchased by Eldora Mountain Resort in Colorado. Baldy's 13 chairlifts have a capacity of over 23,000 skiers per hour.
With an average of 3,500 skiers per day (& less than 6,000 skiers per day amid peak periods), Sun Valley has kept the lift lines to a minimum, a rarity among primary resorts.
This day lodge replaces the Dollar Cabin, and also serves as the command posts for the Sun Valley Ski School.
The interior of the initial Sun Valley Lodge has been remodeled twice amid Holding's ownership, in 1985 for the golden anniversary and again in 2004.
The Sun Valley Inn was also remodeled recently.[when?] The Sun Valley Golf Course saw momentous improvement in the summer of 2008, with the opening of the new "White Cloud Nine" course on the site of the old Gun Club (relocated further down along Trail Creek road), as well as the opening of the "Sun Valley Club", a full service golf course club home assembled in the style of the resort's mountain day lodges, replacing a much lesser and older facility.
The year also saw the opening of the "Sun Valley Pavilion," assembled in partnership with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony as a permanent home for the orchestra's annual three-and-a-half-week series of no-charge concerts.
In 2009, the resort installed the "Roundhouse Express Gondola" on Bald mountain, which runs from the mountain's River Run Base to the Roundhouse Restaurant (located midway up the mountain, at 7,700 feet (2,350 m).
In 2006, Forbes periodical estimated that Sun Valley was worth in the range of $300 million.
In the years before the World Cup circuit, the Harriman Cup at Sun Valley was one of the primary ski competitions held in North America, along with the "Snow Cup" at Alta, the "Roch Cup" at Aspen Mountain, and the "Silver Belt" competitions at Sugar Bowl, north of Lake Tahoe.
Originally known as the "Sun Valley International Open," the Harriman Cup competitions were the first primary international ski competitions held in North America, beginning in 1937.
The first three competitions of 1937 39 were held in the Boulder Mountains north of Sun Valley.
Beginning in 1940, the Harriman Cup was held on the Warm Springs side of Bald Mountain, decades before chairlifts were installed on that north face of the mountain.
In the final season before the launch of the World Cup, Sun Valley hosted the world's top racers in 1966 at the "American International" in late March, with a full slate of competitions for both men and women.
In March 1975 and 1977, Sun Valley hosted World Cup ski competitions, with slalom and enormous slalom affairs for both men and women, run on the Warm Springs side of the mountain.
The 1975 slalom was won by Gustavo Thoeni, the dominant World Cup skier of the early 1970s (which turned out to be his last win in the slalom discipline). A young Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, perhaps the greatest technical ski racer ever, took the enormous slalom title both years.
But amid the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake (about 300 miles (480 km) to the southeast), Sun Valley was used as a training site for many nations' alpine and Nordic ski teams.
Sun Valley is scheduled to host the U.S.
Olympic medalists from Sun Valley include Gretchen Fraser, Christin Cooper, Picabo Street, snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington, and disabled skier Muffy Davis, a beginning and honorary board member of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports.
US TV's legendary sports commentator Tim Ryan (CBS/NBC) also lives in Sun Valley as well as Ski Racing Magazine's proud owner, Gary Black Jr.
Sun Valley has a lively arts improve offering a range of opportunities through over thirty presenting organizations.
"At an altitude of 5,945 feet (1,812 m), the air in Sun Valley is rarefied- and so is the clientele of the area's top-flight art arcades.
Serving the valley's plethora of well-heeled and well-educated art collections are art arcades that could hold their own in Manhattan, Berlin, London or Los Angeles." The non-profit Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities was initiated in 1969 by Mrs.
Glenn Cooper and Bill Janss, who later married. It attained non-profit status and was officially established in 1971; the initial 5-acre (20,000 m2) ground was positioned off Dollar Road in Sun Valley.
Today the Sun Valley Center for the Arts has its chief building in close-by Ketchum as well as a historic home and classroom in Hailey, and continues to present an impressive list of guest artists in the visual and performing arts.
In 2014, FOCUS Mountain Media, a publishing group based in Sun Valley, launched a quarterly periodical about mountain culture with a specific view towards life in Sun Valley. The Sun Valley region boasts a wide range of year-round adaptive sports programs for the disabled including the small-town DSUSA Chapter - Higher Ground Sun Valley; Wood River Ability Program; Sage Brush Equine Training Center for the Handicapped and Camp Rainbow Gold, a youth cancer program.
A small mountain saddle splits the town/city of Sun Valley into two sections.
The northern section is centered around the famous Sun Valley Lodge, Inn, and the "village" complex of shops, condominiums, and initial 18-hole golf course (27 holes by 2008), which winds its way up the Trail Creek valley to the northeast.
This region is referred to as simply "Sun Valley." Quite distinct and separate, including a drier "sagebrush" appearance, it was initially advanced in 1972. The Sun Valley Company took over day-to-day operations of the Elkhorn Golf Club in July 2011 and titled Rick Hickman director of golf operations for the company. Next to to Sun Valley is the older town/city of Ketchum, which is just a mile downstream of the Sun Valley Lodge (along Trail Creek).
The Sun Valley/Ketchum CVB offers region wide knowledge on affairs, vacation planning knowledge and region resources.
Sun Valley is positioned at 43 40 50 N 114 20 34 W (43.680491, 114.342711), at an altitude of 5,945 feet (1,812 m) above sea level.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.89 square miles (25.61 km2), of which, 9.88 square miles (25.59 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Sun Valley's climate is a mixture of humid continental, semi-arid and subarctic climates, that leans towards the continental range.
Climate data for Sun Valley, Idaho Sun Valley in prominent culture Part of Abbott and Costello's 1943 film Hit the Ice was shot at Sun Valley. It Happened in Sun Valley was recorded and featured by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra in the movie Sun Valley Serenade The Esther Williams vehicle, "Duchess of Idaho," was shot and set in Sun Valley.
In the Frasier episode "The Winnebago Show", the Crane family attempt to reach Sun Valley in time for New Year's Eve 1999.
Magic Valley Treasure Valley Wood River Valley Spokesman-Review - 2010 census - Sun Valley, Idaho - accessed 2012-01-07 "Famed Sun Valley, known to many here, now is Navy's".
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"Idaho ski centers eye new season".
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