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Welcome to Snake Creek
Grill
At one point
in time, mentioning “Heber City, Utah” might have gotten
only blank stares. But believe it or not, the 1996 April edition
of Money magazine identified Heber as one of America's 50 hottest
little boomtowns.
This small,
pristine town in Utah’s Mountainlands region is growing rapidly
to embrace Olympic venues, luxurious bed and breakfast inns, historic
attractions, a more-robust-by-the-day economy, and now, of course,
a favorite upscale restaurant with a down home feel: Snake Creek
Grill.
Heber City
is home to the busiest venue of all during Utah’s 2002 Olympic
Winter Games, February 8 – 24, 2002. Soldier Hollow, located
at the Wasatch State Park just outside of Heber, hosted 18 events
in 2002 including biathlon, cross-country skiing and Nordic combined
events.
Located just
18 miles outside of the famed resort town of Park City, Heber’s
just a short drive, or a gondola ride away, from world-class ski
resorts
The
Canyons,
Deer
Valley Resort,
Park
City Mountain Resort and a plethora of shopping, galleries
and fine resort town accommodations. Highway 40 provides a quick
and easy 20-minute drive straight to Park City, and the new Jordanelle
Express Gondola just off the highway will drop skiers at Deer
Valley Resort’s base area.
Though Heber
City’s growing almost as fast as the sunflowers that line
its roads in summer, the natural beauty of the area hasn’t
changed much. Heber is centered around a wide, sweeping green
valley presided over by the impressively craggy 11,957 feet of
beauty that is Mt. Timpanogos. The turn-of the century-styled
Main Street is still quaint and uncrowded with a smattering of
antique shops, bookstores, a movie theater, coffeeshop and an
old-fashioned milkshake stand that goes down in the history books.
Antique farmhouses dot the fertile landscape and there’s
nary a house without a garden. The sight of the 100-year old steam
train of the Heber Valley Railroad creeping by is a living reminiscence
of the Old West that most people only see in movies.
Heber is known
as “a hub of recreation.”
Nearby
Deer Creek Reservoir is the daily site in summer for windsurfers,
sailboats, waterskiers, fishermen and swimmers. In winter, the
ice fishermen brave the cool temperatures on its glassy surface.
Heber Valley
boasts 90 holes of golf between the Wasatch Mountain State Park,
Soldier Hollow and Homestead courses, both of which are used for
scenic cross-country skiing during the winter months. The rushing,
crystal waters of the nearby Provo River are a favorite of anglers,
and the Uinta National Forest with its 40 campgrounds and miles
of hiking trails, hunting and fishing areas, lies about an hour’s
drive from town
The bustling
town of Provo is approximately 25 miles from Heber City, and is
home to the famed Brigham Young University and Utah Lake –
another place frequented by lovers of water sports. Robert Redford’s
Sundance Resort is located just 18 miles from Heber, and their
Sundance Farms is located on a lazy country road just outside
of town.
Heber’s
a short enough drive from Park City, Salt Lake City and Provo
to make enjoying a night out at Snake Creek Grill very doable.
And it’s just a long enough drive to clear the head, enjoy
the scenic vistas and work up an appetite for a night out in the
country enjoying a home cooked meal and the elegant service found
at Snake Creek Grill
For more information
on Heber Valley, contact the
Heber
Valley Chamber of Commerce at 435-654-3666. For information
or reservations for Snake Creek Grill, please call 435-654-2133.
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