Deer Valley Unveils Massive New Trail Map With Nearly 80 New Runs

To those clued into skiing, the stats coming out of the ongoing terrain expansion at Deer Valley, Utah, have read more like a wish list than reality. Doubling in size? Seven new chairlifts for the 2025-26 season? Almost eighty new runs?

It is, to say the least, lofty-sounding. 

But the expansion will actually come online this winter, making Deer Valley, which was once sizable but not dramatically so, one of the largest ski resorts on the continent with over 4,300 acres of terrain (the resort, before the expansion began, started at 2,026 skiable acres). 

Now, we know exactly what that looks like, thanks to a new and updated trail map released by the ski resort on October 17, 2025. See it below.

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The map includes a glut of new terrain above Deer Valley’s new East Village, a secondary base area. Landmarks like Park Peak and Big Dutch Peak, Keetley Point, and Pioche Point have been officially integrated into the ski resort’s terrain network ahead of the coming season. The seven new lifts join three chairs added during the previous season.

To create its new trail map, Deer Valley tapped Rad Smith, the ski map artist and protege of map powerhouse James Niehues. Smith’s involvement and map were revealed previously, but many of the new trails and chairlifts hadn’t been added yet to the map.

“This year’s map captures a significant moment in Deer Valley’s history,” said Susie English, Deer Valley’s vice president of marketing, in a press release. 

“With more lifts, more runs, and a greatly expanded footprint, it reflects how far we’ve come in realizing our vision to elevate the Deer Valley experience while still maintaining the character and care that define our resort,” English added.

The expansion won’t stop this winter. For the 2026-27 season, Deer Valley plans to debut more terrain and lifts on Hail Peak, as shown on the new map. Development on South Peak is expected in later phases of the ski resort’s expansion, which, fittingly, is called Expanded Excellence. 

The 2025-26 ski season at Deer Valley is scheduled to start on November 29 and 30, 2025, with an exclusive weekend for passholders. A general public opening follows on December 1. 

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