Spend Labor Day Weekend In Park City
CNN.com has this interesting article in
its Budget Travel section:
Park
City is included on the list with this teaser line:
For historic parades and the
Running of the Balls
Below are a couple
quotes from the article:
Each year there's
a celebration in honor of the area's rich mining heritage, complete
with a community pancake breakfast, live music, races and games for
the kids, the Funky 5K Fun Run and the annual Miner's Day Parade down
Historic Main Street.
Perhaps the most
intriguing part of the celebration is the annual Running of the
Balls, a charity fundraising event held on Monday at 10:45 a.m. where
participants "adopt" a ball for $5 (or 5 balls for $20),
and watch in awe as thousands of them are released down Main Street,
racing to the bottom of the hill.
The Park
City blog provides more details:
...Our town
celebrates the Labor Day Holiday as a remembrance of our town's
historical mining roots - thus the name, Park City Miner's Day...
Our mucking and
drilling competition is famous. It draws competitors from Utah and
surrounding states, involves miners who dump rock in a mucking
machine (muck is the rubble made after rock is dynamited) and drill
concrete blocks with massive pneumatic drills. Both are timed events.
Park City's
Miner's Day Celebration activities and events
7 a.m. • Pancake
breakfast, City Park
8:30 a.m. •
Funky 5K Run, City Park
10:45 a.m. •
World Famous Running of the Balls, Main Street
11 a.m. •
Miner's Day Parade, Main Street Park City
11:45 a.m. - 12:45
p.m. • Music by Salt Lake Scotts, City Park stage
Noon - 3 p.m. •
Bar-B-Que lunch, City Park
12:30 - 1 p.m. •
Kids Races, City Park stage
1:15 - 2 p.m. •
Music in the Park, City Park stage
2 - 2:45 p.m. •
Mucking & Drilling Competition, Skateboard Park parking lot
2:45 - 5 p.m. •
Music in the Park, City Park Stage
The video below shows highlights from
past Miner's Day celebrations.
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