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Last updated at: Nov 4, 9:23 AM MT · UDOT Traffic
Park City is open. Road surface: Dry. Weather: Fair. No traction restriction is posted for this corridor right now.
SR-224 | Kimball Junction to Park City Old Town
Full camera stripSR-224 is the six mile front door of Park City: I-80 at Kimball Junction to the lifts, the resorts, and Old Town. It is the least mountain road in this bundle and the most traffic managed one, a signalized corridor where the hazards are volume, events, and winter storms arriving off Parleys in the same hour you do.
This page leads with the live UDOT verdict for the corridor, its cameras in driving order, current events, and roadside weather. Pair it with the Parleys Canyon page, because almost every SR-224 trip starts with that climb.
Kimball Junction (I-80 exit 145)
Where the corridor leaves the interstate. The SR-224 split is the Park City decision point for every I-80 driver.
Newpark and Redstone
The commercial strip. Signals and shopping traffic, not weather, set the pace here.
Canyons Village junction (SR-224 / SR-248 area)
Resort traffic splits toward Canyons Village, Park City Mountain, and Deer Valley.
Old Town and Main Street
End of the corridor. Narrow streets, event crowds, and the tightest parking in Summit County.
| Station | Air | Road surface | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR-224 @ MP 11 Bear Hollow Tripod | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| I-80 @ Kimball Jct | 39°F | Dry, 41°F | 4 mph E, gusting 6 |
| SR-224 @ MP 3 Ontario Mine | 40°F | Dry, 37°F | 0 mph NE, gusting 2 |
| SR-224 @ Meadows Drive | 41°F | Dry, 49°F | 3 mph W, gusting 7 |
Temperatures are Fahrenheit, as UDOT reports them. Data: UDOT Traffic.
roadwork
Park City SR-224 BRT|Email: BRT@HVTutah.gov / Hotline: 435-200-5135 / Website: hvtutah.gov/sr224-brt
Data: UDOT Traffic
Nobody's trip report leads with SR-224, and everybody's trip is decided by it. Parleys gets the weather glory, but the corridor from Kimball Junction into town is where Park City traffic actually queues: signals at Newpark, the Canyons Village split, resort arrival peaks at 8 AM, and the Old Town funnel where a six lane problem narrows into historic streets built for mining wagons. On a normal Saturday the interstate delivers you to the junction in 30 minutes and the last six miles take 20 more.
The corridor's saving grace is that it is instrumented and managed like the urban arterial it is. UDOT cameras cover the junction and the signal strip, the events list reports the crashes and work zones that actually cause SR-224 delays, and Park City's transit system runs free buses from the Kimball Junction park and ride that skip the worst of the queue on the biggest days. The verdict at the top of this page reads the corridor the way UDOT sees it, which is the fastest way to know whether today is a drive in day or a bus day.
Event weeks rewrite the corridor entirely. Sundance in late January is the famous case, when Old Town closes to ordinary traffic and the junction becomes a transit hub; the events list and the alerts page carry those postings as UDOT and the city publish them.
The corridor sits between 6,400 and 6,900 feet, high enough that a storm that rains in Salt Lake City snows here as a matter of routine. What catches drivers is the pairing: they check the city, see rain, and forget that their destination is a mile higher and on the far side of a summit. The roadside weather on this page and the Parleys summit cameras are the two checks that matter, and they take twenty seconds.
SR-224 itself is not a designated Class 3 canyon segment like the Cottonwoods, and its grades are gentle, but it is not exempt from winter. The open stretch past the junction takes wind and blowing snow off the same systems that close Parleys, black ice forms on the shaded curves near the resorts, and a jackknifed truck on I-80 closes your exit, not your road, which strands the corridor just as effectively. Read the two pages together: Parleys for the approach, this one for the arrival.
Summer brings the corridor's other weather, afternoon thunderstorms rolling off the Uinta side and construction season on a road that can only be rebuilt when it is not snowing. Both show up in the events list.
Park City Mountain's Canyons Village base sits almost on the corridor, and its Park City base feeds in from the south side of town; Deer Valley's Snow Park base is reached through town on SR-224 and Deer Valley Drive. Between them they anchor one of the largest ski complexes in the country, and the corridor's morning peak is simply the sum of both arrival curves plus a workforce that mostly lives down the hill in Summit Park, Jeremy Ranch, or the valley.
The resorts have spent years pushing arrival toward transit and reservation parking, which changes the driver's math season by season. The constant is that corridor capacity does not grow: when the verdict and events say the junction is backed up, the park and ride bus is not a compromise, it is the fastest vehicle on the road.
Our Park City ski page covers the drive resort by resort: which junction for which base, where the cameras are, and how the traction picture on Parleys and the corridor combine on a storm morning. It is the page to read the night before, not at the exit ramp.
Underneath the visitor traffic, SR-224 is Summit County's main street. Jeremy Ranch and Summit Park residents, on the I-80 side, and the neighborhoods along the corridor run school, work, and grocery trips on the same asphalt as the ski industry. School start times, not lift times, set the first peak of the day, and the corridor's signals are timed for a mix no single purpose would choose.
For those drivers this page is a different tool than it is for visitors: less about storms, more about the crash at the junction that turns a 10 minute school run into 40, the paving project that closes a lane for a week, and the wind event on I-80 that closes the exit and reroutes the interstate through their front door. The events list and alerts page carry exactly those postings, live from UDOT.
It is also why this site covers the corridor at all. A conditions site that only served ski mornings would miss the daily drivers who use these roads 300 days a year. The Wasatch bundle is built for both, with the same live verdict doing both jobs.
The SR-224 camera strip is short, and it rewards a specific reading order. Start at the Kimball Junction frame: if the interstate ramps are queued back onto I-80, the corridor is saturated and nothing downstream will be better. The Newpark frames tell you whether the signal strip is flowing or stacked. The resort split frame tells you which base is drawing the crowd. And the Old Town approach tells you whether town itself is the bottleneck, which on event nights it usually is.
Each camera has its own page with the live still and the local note for that spot, and the strip page runs them in driving order like the other corridors. Six miles does not need many cameras, but it needs the right ones, and UDOT's placement here is aimed at exactly the decision points above.
Pair the cameras with the events list before you interpret a queue. A stack at the signals with no event posted is a normal peak doing normal things, and it will clear on schedule. A stack with a crash posted at the junction is a different morning, and the bus or the wait is the honest choice.
SR-224 rarely closes for weather on its own. It closes, effectively, three other ways: when I-80 closes and the junction stops being an exit, when a crash closes lanes on a road with no parallel alternative at its south end, and when Old Town closes for events on a planned schedule. All three appear in UDOT's postings, and all three are on this page and the alerts page the moment the feed carries them.
The detour math is unforgiving. The alternate into Park City is SR-248 from US-40 on the Heber side, which is a fine road and a long way around, worth it only when the junction is truly shut. For most corridor problems the right answer is time, not distance: the queue clears, the crash tows, and the interstate reopens, usually faster than the Heber loop would have delivered you.
Which is the larger point of this page existing. SR-224 is a short road that carries an outsized share of Utah's visitor economy, and its conditions were, until now, scattered across an interstate page here and a city page there. It has its own verdict now, live from UDOT, next to the canyons it connects. That is where it belongs.
Is SR-224 into Park City moving right now?
The verdict at the top of this page reads the corridor live from UDOT Traffic, and the events list names whatever is slowing it. The junction cameras on the strip page show the queue itself.
Do I need chains on SR-224?
SR-224 is not a Class 3 canyon traction segment like the Cottonwoods. Its winter risk arrives through Parleys Canyon, which is a designated traction segment. Check the Parleys verdict for the gear question and this page for the corridor itself.
What is the fastest way into Park City on a powder morning?
On the biggest mornings, the Kimball Junction park and ride and the free transit buses beat the corridor queue. The rest of the time it is I-80 over Parleys and SR-224 in. Both pages carry live verdicts so you can decide with today's facts.
Why is Park City traffic bad when the roads are clear?
Volume. Two major resorts, a full workforce commute, and Old Town's historic streets all load the same six miles. Clear roads do not mean a clear corridor; the events list shows incidents and the cameras show the queues.
How does SR-224 connect to Deer Valley?
Deer Valley's Snow Park base is reached through town via SR-224 and Deer Valley Drive. The Park City ski page on this site covers the drive to each base area with the corridor cameras that matter.