The district sits near the base of the Bonanza chair lift at Park City Mountain. It includes the Silver King Mine, the head frame building, which looms over a mine shaft, and other structures.
In recent years, the mine buildings have fallen into disrepair. The head frame building collapsed in 2019 and a storage building caved in last year.
Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History has been working since the collapses to fix the historic buildings. Founder of the nonprofit Sally Elliott says now, they are close to bringing the buildings back to their former glory.
“We are now diligently working on the old Silver King head frame building, the hoist house, and you're gonna be so excited to see it,” she said. “It has a new steel roof on it, and we're gonna restore it this summer to the way it looked when it was originally built back in the early 1900s.”
The Silver King Coalition Mine was built in 1891 and was part of Park City’s large-scale silver and lead mining and milling production.
The Utah State Historic Preservation Office reports Silver King was historically one of the most productive mines in Park City and the state.
The 31-acre mining district was added to the National Register of Historic Places Dec. 11, 2024.
