Flagpole installation inPark City, UT

Flagpoles in Park City

A silver-mining town turned year-round resort, where the commercial building stock is hotels, lodges, restaurants and the two ski bases above them. We cover Park City and the Summit County area, including the Main Street historic district, the Park City Mountain and Deer Valley base areas, the Utah Olympic Park, Kimball Junction and the Snyderville Basin, and the municipal campus on Marsac Avenue.

Wind here. Park City sits in a high, cold and snow-driven area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Park City sizes to about 115 mph, but at close to 7,000 feet the snow and the ice are what govern. The ground snow load comes off the state study rather than a single number, because the load changes with elevation inside the town. The ground catches people out as well. Much of the older town falls inside the city's soils ordinance boundary, where mine tailings left lead and arsenic in the upper soil, and anything that digs into it has to meet the city's requirements for handling and covering what comes out: a flagpole footing counts. Work on Main Street or among the mining-era houses also goes through historic district design review, which takes an interest in height and finish as well as placement. Rope and an exposed cleat freeze solid up here, so stainless hardware and an internal halyard with a winch are standard, and we leave the base clear enough for a plough to pass.

Most of the people who call us from Park City are hotels and lodges, restaurants and Main Street retail, resort base buildings, private clubs and homeowner associations, schools and city facilities.