Concrete centrepiece is Cliff Lodge with its 11-storey atrium.

Ten nights' accommodation at Cliff Lodge in Snowbird costs from £1,325 to £1,702.

The package, with a minimum three-day stay, is$66 a person at the 500-room Cliff Lodge.

There is a nursery slope next to Cliff Lodge and the Mountain Learning area part-way up the hill.

We were a class of a dozen or so, assembled on a bunny slope outside the imposing (10-story) Cliff Lodge.

Cliff Lodge and Snowbird Center are the focal points.

The 'fine dining' Aerie in the Cliff Lodge has had mixed reviews.

The the Aerie, with international cuisine, offers elegant dining on the 10th floor of the Cliff Lodge at $40 to $80 for two.

A climbing wall 115 feet high attached to one face of the 13-story Cliff Lodge is the course the climbers will ascend.

At the Cliff Lodge a typical room with ski mountain view is $215 in January and $269 at other times.