for hauling ore were converted into
chairlifts. To this day, there are still more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km)
of old silver-mine workings and tunnels beneath the slopes at Park City
Mountain Resort and neighboring Deer Valley. Park City might be a fairly
nondescript-appearing town were it not for its colorful and evocative Main
Street, where 64 Victorian buildings are listed in the National Register of
Historic Places. There are many remaining mine buildings, mine shafts (most
blocked off from outsiders with large steel doors), and hoists, including the
weathered remains of the California-Comstock and Silver King Mines and the
water towers once used to hydrate one of the biggest mines, the Silver King,
provide a hint of the history of this mining town transformed in economic
upheaval into a skiing resort
