Parking
Existing Staging Capacity
The base area staging capacity of a ski area is the total number of guests which can be supplied to the ski area from the base. At the Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort, all sliders are delivered to the resort by way of rubber tired vehicle (cars and buses). As such, all guests must be parked in three separate parking areas. Two of the parking areas are located on a widened switch-back section of the access road adjacent to a gravel path that access the daylodges. The third parking area is located at the north end of the lower widened section of road. Very few guests arrive at the resort by bus. An inventory and capacity analysis of the parking areas is listed in Table II.16.
It is assumed that the number of people arriving by car will average between 2.4 and 2.6 guests per car. The parking inventory and analysis at Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort is shown in Table II.16. The number of cars that can be parked in a paved, well-organized parking lot is approximately 140 per acre. It appears that the Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard Resort are meeting or exceeding this standard. Based on an average occupancy of 2.4 - 2.6 sliders per car, these two parking lots can accommodate between 1,747 and 1,893 sliders respectively. The availability of this parking for sliders is significantly reduced when snowplay and sightseers use the parking.
TABLE II.16
LAS VEGAS SKI AND SNOWBOARD RESORT
EXISTING PARKING
| Parking Location |
Area
(acres) |
Cars
per ac. |
# of
Cars |
Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paved Lot | 2.40 | 146 | 350 | 840 | 875 | 910 | 875 |
| Overflow Lot | 2.70 | 140 | 378 | 907 | 945 | 983 | 945 |
| Total | 728 | 1,747 | 1,820 | 1,893 | 1,820 | ||
| Guests/Car | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.5 | |||
Note: Paved parking lot capacity based on counts by
Las Vegas Ski and Snowboard management
Remote lot parking capacity based on 140 cars per
acre and revised surface area measurements