Tuhaye's Road Into Park City Is Being Planned by Its Neighbors

Tuhaye's main gate sits on Highway 248 a short distance east of the Hideout town border. That is how a Wasatch County planning report describes it, prepared for an August 2025 Planning Commission review of a Tuhaye maintenance building. The same report notes a second access at the community's eastern edge, on Tuhaye Hollow Drive near the Summit County line. Talisker Club's own community map puts Kamas about six miles from the gate and Park City about eight.

Those eight miles are where Tuhaye differs from the enclaves it is usually compared with. The county report places the community outside Hideout's town limits. The highway it depends on is managed by UDOT. Its last stretch into town is being redesigned by Park City, and the middle stretch is being studied by Hideout and built out by a private developer. Each of these groups works on its own timeline. A buyer weighing a Tuhaye homesite against a property on the Park City side of the corridor is also weighing a commute shaped by decisions made in other town halls.

One Highway, Several Owners of Its Future

Hideout's own planning documents describe the corridor plainly. In a request for proposals issued September 14, 2026, the town calls SR-248 its primary vehicle access: a UDOT-managed road that "carries commuter, recreational, and commercial traffic between Kimball Junction (I-80) and U.S. Highway 189." The same document describes Hideout as "a gateway between Park City to the west and the Kamas Valley to the east," next to the Deer Valley East development on the southeast shore of the Jordanelle Reservoir.

Tuhaye sits just past that gateway, on the Kamas side. Every plan below runs between its gate and Park City:

Sources for each row are linked in the sections that follow.

The Town End Moves Last

The worst congestion on the drive is on the Park City end, and that is where the longest timeline applies. As KPCW reported in January, the Park City Council voted 4–1 for side-running dedicated bus lanes as the locally preferred alternative for Re-create 248. The choice was not a final design. City staff estimated roughly two years of study and public feedback, followed by about three years of construction. The Park Record describes the target corridor as running through Quinn's Junction, Bonanza Drive, SR-224 and Deer Valley Drive to the Old Town Transit Center.

In May the city committed real money. According to KPCW's report on the contract, the council approved a $2.1 million, three-year contract with Horrocks Engineers on May 7. The contract combines the environmental assessment with preliminary and final design so the phases can run in parallel. Senior Transportation Planner Conor Campobasso told KPCW that the city still needed direction from the Federal Transit Administration and was still deciding where to route the travel lanes, partly because some businesses sit close to the road. He also told KPCW the project was "pretty short on funds," with a likely total cost similar to the SR-224 bus rapid transit project, or more than $11 million.

Park City's Re-create 248 project page lists related council reports only through January 20, 2026. For a Tuhaye owner, the stretch that most limits the drive into town is in its design phase this fall. Only part of the money is in hand, and the stated sequence of study and construction runs about five years from the January vote.

Shorter-term work has also been underway. TownLift reported that Kearns Boulevard power-line undergrounding would bring lane reductions and detours this spring. Phase I was scheduled for completion in October 2026, and Phase II, which removes the existing transmission towers, is expected in late spring 2027. KPCW's April preview grouped that project with High Valley Transit lane work and UDOT paving as the summer's SR-248 impacts.

Parking Moves Toward Tuhaye

Park City's corridor plan includes where drivers leave their cars. TownLift reported in March that the city chose the 22-acre Gordo property, west of Richardson Flat Road, as its first-phase park-and-ride and designated Richardson Flat as a phase-two overflow lot. Final space counts and cost estimates were still to be determined. Campobasso told KPCW the Gordo lot could be funded separately from the bus lanes.

Today the city's park-and-ride guide lists Richardson Flat as a 650-space lot served by Park City Transit. It also lists a 50-space Kamas Park-and-Ride on High Valley Transit's Gateway/Kamas route. High Valley Transit's Route 102 runs scheduled weekday commuter trips from the Kamas Park & Ride to the Old Town Transit Center, with stops at Deer Mountain, Brown's Canyon and Park City Medical Center. Its spring 2026 service notice, effective April 5, listed no changes to Route 102.

Park City's plan is about where its own visitors and workers park. For someone driving west from the Tuhaye gate, the lots sit between home and town, so any shift from cars to buses there happens on the stretch Tuhaye traffic has already driven.

The Middle of the Corridor Is Hideout's to Plan

Hideout's September request for proposals describes a $150,000 Comprehensive Multi-Modal Transportation Study. A UDOT planning grant covers $125,000 and the town adds $25,000. Proposals were due October 5, 2026. The deliverable is a 20-year Transportation Master Plan, a policy and project document rather than a construction contract. The consultant is asked to analyze traffic and safety at eight or more intersections and to forecast conditions for 2031 and 2046, including growth at Silver Meadows. The scope also covers a continuous multi-use path along or parallel to SR-248 to the Richardson Flat Park and Ride, and a regional trail corridor toward the Park City trail network by way of the Jordanelle Reservoir rim.

One part of that work is right next to Tuhaye's gate. The RFP says UDOT and the town "recently engaged a transportation engineering firm" to study a single four-way intersection at SR-248, Shoreline Drive and Deer Mountain Boulevard. Today those two roads meet the highway about 300 feet apart, in an area the town calls Ross Creek. The RFP describes the Ross Creek effort, the master plan and Hideout's draft 2026 General Plan as "separate but interdependent" efforts that the consultant is expected to reconcile. No construction date is attached to any of them.

Silver Meadows Sets the Traffic Those Forecasts Measure

The 2031 and 2046 forecasts are explicitly tied to Silver Meadows. As KPCW reported in December 2025, the project covers 350 undeveloped acres in Summit County between Park City limits and Wasatch County. Hideout annexed that land, and Larry H. Miller Real Estate owns it through an LLC. The development agreement, approved five years earlier, allows up to 600 residential units, 120 of them affordable. It also calls for the developer to study a chairlift running south from Richardson Flat toward the ridgeline. The plan treats the site as Hideout's "commercial center," with a grocery store and restaurants.

If those plans are built, the grocery store would sit on the stretch of SR-248 a Tuhaye driver already uses. The 600 homes would add trips to the same road.

The developer's Silver Meadows site still says phase one is "anticipated to break ground in 2026." The work that has started is preparation. TownLift reported that on August 4, crews began excavating about 10,700 cubic yards of historic mine waste on Larry H. Miller property east of Highway 40. The work falls under a March 9 settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Utah, as the company prepares nearly 1,000 acres for potential development, recreation or open space. In January, Hideout's mayor told KPCW that an eventual gondola to Deer Valley East Village was an idea, not an approved project.

Winter Arrives on the Current Road

All of the above concerns future winters. This winter runs on today's road. Deer Valley plans to open December 5, conditions permitting, with the new Hail Peak Express adding 200 acres and seven runs, as reported by the Park Record. Deer Valley's June release says the East Village Lodge and Park Peak Lodge are scheduled for the 2027–28 season, with construction continuing through the 2026–27 winter. That puts East Village construction and Re-create 248's study period in the same winters, on either side of the Jordanelle.

Questions Buyers Bring to a Tuhaye Showing

Is Tuhaye inside Hideout? No. A Wasatch County planning report places the Tuhaye Master Development northeast of the Jordanelle Reservoir, with its main entrance on Highway 248 a short distance east of the Hideout town border.

Does any bus reach the Kamas side of the corridor? High Valley Transit's Route 102 runs weekday commuter trips from the Kamas Park & Ride to Park City's Old Town Transit Center.

When could the Park City end of SR-248 look different? Park City staff estimated about two years of study and about three years of construction after the January 2026 vote for bus lanes. Additional funding is still needed for final design.

Who should a buyer follow to track these plans? Park City Council agendas for Re-create 248 and the Gordo park-and-ride, the Town of Hideout for its transportation master plan and the Ross Creek intersection, and Larry H. Miller Real Estate's Silver Meadows updates.

If the drive into town is part of your Tuhaye decision, Peak Luxury Real Estate can walk you through what is planned on SR-248, between the gate and Old Town, and where each plan stands. Contact us to talk it through.