Sun Valley, Idaho
Blaine County · Population 1,783 · Card no. 10562
America's first destination ski resort, built by the Union Pacific in 1936, with the world's first chairlift.
- The chairlift was designed by an engineer who adapted banana-loading equipment.
- Averell Harriman built the resort to fill his railroad's passenger cars.
- Hemingway, Gary Cooper and much of Hollywood made it famous.
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