Kimball Junction's value play — 79 spacious suites with private-balcony hot tubs, gas fireplaces, and full kitchens, plus rolling townhome inventory for families. Closer to Salt Lake International, ten minutes to the lifts at Canyons Village, and the rates that families actually budget for.
"The Park City answer for travellers who want a serious base without the Empire Pass tariff. Suites large enough to cook a real dinner in, private-balcony hot tubs that operate year-round, and a position at Kimball Junction that makes the airport and the Canyons base equally accessible. The honest family-holiday calibration."
Newpark Resort sits at 1456 Newpark Boulevard in the Kimball Junction commercial district at the northern entry to Park City — three miles from Canyons Village base area, eight miles from Deer Valley Resort, and roughly 28 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport via I-80. The property opened in 2007 as the central hotel anchor of the Newpark planned development — a Kimball Junction master-plan that paired retail, restaurants, residential and the hotel around a central plaza, with the goal of providing a serious "town centre" experience at the convenient northern entry to Park City rather than at the historic Main Street five miles south. Newpark Resort is independently owned and operated; the property runs under no major brand affiliation but holds its own loyalty programme and has consistent Tripadvisor and Expedia recognition for the family-holiday and group-travel categories.
The 79-key resort inventory comprises a mix of standard hotel rooms, one-bedroom suites, and two-bedroom suites — with separate residential townhome inventory (rolling availability through the property's rental programme) extending the upper-end booking categories to two- and three-bedroom multi-level townhomes designed for families and small groups. The headline feature across the suite categories is the private-balcony hot tub: most suites have a dedicated outdoor hot tub on the private balcony, operating year-round, with the Wasatch Range as the daytime sightline. Suites also include gas fireplaces, full kitchens (refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, full cookware), and in-suite washer-dryer programmes. The suite size range — 700 square feet for One-Bedrooms, 1,100 for Two-Bedrooms, 1,800+ for the rolling townhome inventory — is structurally well-suited for the multi-night family stay.
Resort amenities are comprehensive for the rate category: a heated indoor swimming pool, a heated outdoor swimming pool, a hot tub, a fitness centre, a sauna, a steam room, two on-site restaurants (the Beach House Grill at the pool and the Newpark Bistro for breakfast and dinner), a lobby bar/lounge, a business centre, complimentary self-parking, and complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi throughout. Meeting facilities run to four conference rooms with a 200-capacity main ballroom — the largest non-Empire-Pass conference inventory in Park City and a serious option for the kind of corporate offsite that wants Park City but doesn't want the Empire Pass tariff. The on-site Newpark Spa runs a small but effective treatment programme.
Newpark Resort's commercial proposition is the math: from $350 per night for a One-Bedroom Suite with a private-balcony hot tub, full kitchen, and gas fireplace — for a Park City property in 2026 — is among the most aggressive five-star-equivalent rate positions in the market. The trade-off is the location. Kimball Junction is not Empire Pass, not Main Street, and not Canyons Village base. The closest lift access is Canyons Village (3 miles via the resort's complimentary winter shuttle); Park City Mountain Resort base is 4 miles; Deer Valley is 8 miles. For families on multi-night stays with a rental car, the Kimball Junction location is, on balance, an advantage — closer to the airport, closer to the Whole Foods/Tanger Outlet grocery infrastructure, less corporate-resort dynamics, more spacious suite inventory, and Utah Olympic Park (the 2002 Winter Olympics legacy site) is 1.4 miles north. For groups travelling on the kind of Park City ski week that emphasises skiing, evenings in, and a real meal cooked in the suite, this is the right calibration.
Newpark is the most structurally suited Park City hotel for the budget-conscious family ski-holiday brief. Two-Bedroom Suite handles a family of four-six with full kitchen, in-suite washer-dryer, gas fireplace, and private-balcony hot tub for evening soaking. Indoor and outdoor heated pools, complimentary Canyons Village shuttle, complimentary parking, complimentary Wi-Fi — every typical Park City resort fee is built into the rate. Three-bedroom townhome inventory available for multigenerational stays.
For Park City anniversaries that prioritise a private-balcony hot tub at sunset, an in-suite gas fireplace, and a kitchen capable of producing a real dinner, Newpark is the calibrated answer. Book a One-Bedroom Suite with mountain view, plan one evening in with groceries from the on-site Whole Foods, and take one evening out at Powder by Sammy Lee at the Waldorf or at Edge Steakhouse at Westgate.
Newpark's 200-capacity ballroom and four supplementary meeting rooms make it the substantive non-Empire-Pass conference option in Park City. Tech-industry offsites, regional corporate retreats, and the kind of board meeting that wants Park City but not Park City rates use Newpark as the substantive answer. The Tanger Outlet retail and the Newpark plaza dining mean the offsite has a working pedestrian-scale evening programme without the cost of an Empire Pass venue.
1456 Newpark Boulevard
Park City, UT 84098
United States
Canyons Village base 3 miles via complimentary shuttle; Park City Mountain Resort 4 miles; Deer Valley Resort 8 miles; Utah Olympic Park 1.4 miles; Salt Lake City International 28 miles via I-80
79 rooms + suites + townhome inventory
Standard Rooms from $350/night
One-Bedroom Suites from $500/night
Two-Bedroom Suites from $850/night
3-Bedroom Townhomes from $1,400/night
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Independently owned and operated
Originally opened 2007
Private-balcony hot tubs in suites (year-round)
Indoor and outdoor heated pools
Full kitchens + in-suite washer-dryers in suites
Beach House Grill + Newpark Bistro
200-capacity ballroom + 4 meeting rooms
Complimentary parking + Wi-Fi
Complimentary winter mountain shuttle
From $350/night. Sundance Film Festival (late January) and Christmas-New Year weeks book three months ahead at peak rates; March is the value window for ski stays. Summer rates run roughly 35% below winter peaks.
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