| What to expect: Once past the colorful, ski-country banners flying outside the logged entry and through the doorway’s native stone pillars, the vintage lodge’s homey atmosphere is evident. With lodgers spending more time over large-portion meals and in comfortable common rooms than their economy-sized guestrooms, the historic hotel reports a high return rate of friends and families. Amenity highlights: Plentiful potted plants, exposed beams, and handcrafted, blonde wood furnishings greet guests in the downstairs lobby where a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace draws a crowd for freshly baked treats (sometimes èclairs) each evening. Upstairs, the Alf Engen fireside library (named for a notorious Alta skier) offers newspapers, games, and free nightly films on a wide-screen, surround-sound HDTV. Hotel history: People have scratched their heads for years about why it’s called Peruvian, but what began as a three-story barrack building trucked from a defunct Brigham City hospital, opened in 1949 as a ski lodge. Log siding, window shutters, and alpine-style stenciling under the mansard roof came later, as did the dramatic three-story glass expanse facing Alta. |
Alta Peruvian Lodge
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