We’d like to recommend a number of activities for panelists and attendees while in Park City and the Salt Lake City area. This year includes a large slate of events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the “golden spike” connecting the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869.
150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad
Resources and Readings
Other Recommended Nearby Attractions
Commentary: Utah needs to reach across its urban-rural divide, Doris Schmidt, Salt Lake Tribune
The 3 Rural Americas, Richard Florida, CityLab
Natural Resource Amenity Service Values and Impacts in the U.S., Hill, Bergstrom, Cordell, and Bowker, Internal Revenue Service
Spatial Patterns of Migration and Income Change in the Mountain West: The Dominance of Service- Based, Amenity-Rich Counties, J. Matthew Shumway & Samuel M. Otterstrom, The Professional Geographer
Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Leslie R. Hamilton, Cynthia M. Duncan, Chris R. Colocousis, Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire
Amenity Migrants' Alter Life In Resort Towns, Daniel Kraker, NPR
Sociocultural change facing ranchers in the Rocky Mountain West as a result of mountain resort tourism and amenity migration, Natalie Ooia, Jennifer Laing, Judith Mairc, Journal of Rural Studies
Re-creating the Rural, Reconstructing Nature: An International Literature Review of the Environmental Implications of Amenity Migration, Jesse B. Abrams, Hannah Gosnell, Nicholas J. Gill, Peter J. Klepeis, Conservation & Society
10 Reasons To Live (The Dream) In Park City, Utah, Rob Reed, Forbes