Our Deer Valley home is our primary residence and we love everything here or we wouldn't live here! We love the easy ski in/ski out access...we think it makes skiing soooooo much more enjoyable than having to park in the parking lot and carry ski gear! Silver Lake Village is THE prime location in Deer Valley--we can walk to all the restaurants, boutique shops and Spa at Stein Erickson's lodge! Empire may be the newer area, but it is so much further away from Park City (especially in a bad snow storm!) and you can't walk to all the great restaurants and shops in Silver Lake Village!! We also LOVE the summers since no one lives in any of the homes around ours...so it is VERY peaceful and stunningly beautiful. We take walks around the neighborhood daily
and we also love to hike around as well! We stayed this Holiday January 2014 for 2 nights at the Montage and we must be spoiled because neither of us liked it at all! We figured it was important for us to know what it was like so we could see why someone would pay over $3,600.00 nightly. Needless to say, we don't get it because we found it too busy with no privacy and we had to walk so far to everything (it didn't feel like it was very ski in/ski out when we had to walk to the ski shop, then hassle to wait for our ski's and boots). We prefer the simplicity of dressing in our ski gear, walking out our front door and one house over to our ski trail! Not to mention, the privacy and beauty of our hot tub and home nestled into the Aspen & Pine tree's!