Salt Lake City, UT – Utah’s 14 ski and snowboard resorts have largely wrapped up an amazing winter season that saw more than 700 inches of “The Greatest Snow On Earth” fall upon the state’s slopes and trails. Alta Ski Area concluded its season on Sunday with over 200 inches of settled snow on the ground, and Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort will keep things going to Memorial Day, and probably beyond the holiday into June or even later.n”This has been a remarkable season for Snowbird,” said Snowbird resort president Bob Bonar. “We’ll be celebrating with skiing til Memorial Day and most likely beyond, with conditions that are anything but typical spring skiing.”

The latest closing date in the history of the Little Cottonwood Canyon resort is July 4, set both in 1995 and 2005.

Snowbird set its all-time season snowfall record on April 26 at 690 inches. It’s kept on snowing, however, and totals have now reached 711 inches. This is the fourth consecutive season Snowbird has topped 600 inches at mid-mountain, with water content in this year’s snowfall well exceeding record levels.

“Having skied at Snowbird for 16 years, I can honestly say this is by far the best year of powder skiing I’ve ever experienced,” said local pro athlete Ben Wheeler. “The mountain is incredibly filled in, with areas that used to be 30-foot cliffs completely buried under all this snow.”

Utah’s snowfall this winter measures nearly the height of each sculpture face at the Mount Rushmore National Monument, more than a third of the height of the Statue of Liberty, and easily tops Utah’s Delicate Arch in Arches National Park.