Utah

Alta

Built on land deeded in 1937 by George Watson, the busted silver town's last resident and self-declared mayor.

$63

Original pen plot · signed · no two identical

Ink & paper: Arctic Blue

Size: 12×18"

Made to order. Ships flat in 1–4 business days. Shipping & returns

+ Details

  • 12 × 18 inches
  • Drawn on 98 lb (160 gsm) archival cotton paper
  • Precision technical pens and archival inks
  • Signed and dated on the back
  • Ships flat, protected, ready to frame

Each map begins with elevation data and is drawn by a pen plotter in our Vermont studio. Mechanical precision, plus the texture and small imperfections of real ink on paper.

+ About this map

In January 2014 four snowboarders and a nonprofit called Wasatch Equality sued Alta in federal court, arguing that the resort’s snowboard ban violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Judge Dee Benson dismissed the case that September, writing: “To put it simply, Plaintiffs’ case fails because there is no law to support it.” Alta has been skiers-only since 1939, high in Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon where snowfall regularly exceeds 500 inches a season, and it is now skiers-only with the blessing of the federal judiciary.

+ Site data

Location
Alta
Region
Rocky Mountains
Elevation
11,068 ft / 3,374 m
Coordinates
40.5797N 111.6383W
Type
ski resort
Notes
Est. 1939. 118 trails

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