Executive Director Caroline Rodriguez says her organization will move into its new facilities along U.S. 40 by mid-March. It replaces High Valley’s current location near Ecker Hill Middle School.
Located near the Park City-area Home Depot, the administrative and operations building is just under 20,000 sq. ft. on two floors.
“The second floor encompasses nine units of workforce housing that is going to be for our employees,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez said there is also a five-bay maintenance facility and an enclosed bus parking and charging station with space to wash buses.
She said the bus washing station will be much more convenient for her team.
“We rotate our buses down to past Salt Lake to get them washed, but we don't have a bus wash, and I am not about to put my employees in danger by having them spray down a bus in sub-zero temperatures,” Rodriguez said.
The move to a central location between Wasatch and Summit counties is also strategic. According to High Valley Transit, Wasatch County locals and visitors made up 43% of riders in 2024.
“The adoption of public transit and Wasatch has astounded all of us. It's a happy surprise,” Rodriguez said. “We knew that there was unmet demand, but we didn't know that there was this much.”
She said adding more service in Wasatch County is one of her organization's top priorities.
Rodriguez also said ridership is up 16% overall, with almost 1.6 million rides in 2024. That includes 1.2 million fixed route rides, 330,000 micro rides and almost 22,000 new app creations.
