Park City · Deer Valley
Apres parties, corporate retreats, galas, and ranch buyouts across Park City, Deer Valley, and the Kamas Valley. Our warehouse is about 40 minutes down the canyon and we are up here most weeks of the year, so it is a market we know well rather than one we visit.
Something people usually find out late is that the venue they just booked does not own any production gear. Most of the best rooms up here do not, and the handful that do keep gear on site tend to charge resort rates for it.
We're the other option.
You get your own crew, your own gear list, and one flat quote, all of it trucked up from Farmington. We have produced at Montage Deer Valley and at venues all over the Wasatch Back, and we handle the load-in, power, and quiet hours conversation with venue operations directly so you are not passing messages back and forth between us and the resort.
Production and services
Everything listed below goes up to Park City on a regular basis, with the same crew that runs it down in the valley.
Powered tops and subs for decks and dinners, column arrays for rooms where the speakers need to stay out of sight, and line array when it is a ballroom or a few hundred people outdoors. We also carry enough wireless mics that a panel or an awards program can pass them around without anything dropping out.
Battery powered wireless uplighting, which works well on timber, stone, and drapery. Moving heads and beams when there is a dance floor to run, and pin spots for tables and centerpieces. Because the fixtures are wireless we can usually avoid taping cable across a lodge floor.
Modular decking from small risers up to full stages, with legs that adjust, which matters because the ground up here is rarely level. We also carry screens and projection for general sessions and TVs on stands for smaller rooms and sponsor loops.
We keep 750 LED headphones in house. It is the simplest way around resort quiet hours, and it lets an outdoor party run late without any of it carrying across the property.
Battery systems handle dinners, speeches, and ceremonies at sites with no power available. When a full dance floor is on the schedule we bring a quiet generator instead, and we ramp any cable that crosses where guests walk.
We can run the whole thing with techs on site, or you can rent the gear and pick it up at our Farmington shop if you have your own people. Our rates are published on the rental page either way, so you can check the math.
The Wasatch Back
The main reason is that the events are good. Clients up here tend to care about the details, so production is usually not the first thing cut from a budget, and a crew that shows up early and dresses appropriately for the room gets noticed.
The venues are a big part of it too. There are not many places where you can do a lodge buyout in the afternoon, a yurt dinner at six, and a dance floor outside at nine without any of it feeling forced. Timber and stone also take light really well, and the lawns give us room to build something substantial, so a lot of the visual work is already done for us before we show up.
Between winter apres, Sundance week, summer offsites, and fall retreats we are up the canyon most weeks of the year, which means we are not figuring these venues out on your date. We already know which loading docks are really docks, which rooms will sound like a gymnasium if a speaker gets aimed wrong, and which resorts want the certificate of insurance a week ahead instead of the day before.
It is also only about 40 minutes from our warehouse, which matters more than it sounds like it should. If something fails at 4pm we can go get a replacement and still make doors.
Ranch buyouts, distillery dinners, hangar parties, and summit style retreats are all normal work for us out here. These venues are one of a kind, and guests tend to notice right away when the production is not at the same level as the room.
A lot of the time that means working somewhere without power. Battery lighting and audio cover the spots where a generator would be too loud, and we pack the truck with the drive in mind, since going back down the canyon for one forgotten item costs most of an afternoon.
Discretion is part of it as well. A fair amount of this work is under NDA, and we are comfortable being the vendor who does not get photographed or posted about.
Mountain logistics
Getting gear to a venue up here is often the harder half of the job, and it is worth knowing what we plan around.
A lot of venues up here sit at the top of a private drive that stays packed snow from December through March. A two wheel drive cargo van will get partway up and then block the road for the caterer behind it. Our trucks are four wheel drive, which is a deliberate choice, so a storm the night before your event does not turn into a production problem.
Some of the best spaces up here cannot be reached by a vehicle at all in winter. Yurts, mid mountain lodges, and decks where the closest parking is a service road and the rest of the trip happens on a sled, a snowcat, or by carrying cases through deep snow. We build that into the schedule and into what we bring, since a road case that is manageable on flat concrete is a lot heavier at eight thousand feet in the snow.
Base area access is scheduled and shared with catering and the other vendors, and it usually has a cutoff before guests start arriving. During Sundance week the street layout changes on top of that. We confirm our route and our window ahead of time and leave extra room in the schedule rather than sorting it out at the curb with a loaded truck.
Batteries hold noticeably less charge in the cold, so we bring extras and keep them warm until they are needed. Snow and a deck full of heavy coats also absorb a lot of high end, which means a winter apres system is sized differently than what we would put in the same space in July. And gear coming out of a cold truck into a warm lodge collects condensation, so it gets time to come up to temperature before anything is powered on.
Park City, Deer Valley, and the whole Kamas Valley, including the ranch and distillery venues from Wanship out to Woodland. Midway and Heber are on the same routes, so those count too.
Planning something further out than that? Jackson Hole, Moab, and southern Utah have their own page, and the math on those is different, so we lay it out separately.
Park City is our busiest mountain market for corporate AV and silent disco, and a lot of those clients also book us in Salt Lake City. If you only need the equipment, everything is priced in the rental catalog.
No. Park City and the Kamas Valley are standard service area for us, about 40 minutes from the warehouse. The quote you get is flat and the drive is already in it. Travel showing up later as its own line is one of our least favorite things about this industry.
Yes. Our trucks are four wheel drive, which matters more than people expect on the private drives and resort roads up here. If the last stretch cannot be driven at all, tell us and we will plan the carry, the sled, or the snowcat into the build time.
Yes, and it is some of our favorite work in the winter. The whole deck needs the same mix, and it needs to be up and dialed before the last chair unloads, not during.
All the time. Plenty of planners let the house handle the easy stuff and bring us for the parts the night depends on. We work it out with venue ops directly, so you are not stuck refereeing two vendors who have never met.
Constantly, and summer is honestly our heaviest season up here. Open sky eats sound, so the rig has to be sized for it, and afternoon canyon wind will find anything you did not weight down. Neither one is a special request for us, it is just how we pack for outdoor dates.
Some of our favorite work all year. No noise limits, big sky, and a blank slate where whatever shows up is what we brought. We scout the site first, map the power, and truck in everything the night needs.
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Quantity is how many pieces of gear, not how many days. The overnight and weekend rates each cover the whole rental period. This list rides along with your message. This total is for gear only and does not include sales tax. Delivery, setup, and a tech to run your event are quoted separately.
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