Timpanogos from Elk Meadows, during a dedication on Thursday, August 4, 2022, of a conservation easement to protect 316 acres in the Elk Meadows area of the Sundance Mountain Resort.

(Elizabeth Hall | Sundance Mountain Resort) A view of Mt. “To walk those meadows in the summer, or snowshoe and cross-country ski there in the winter, is to enter a sanctuary, a place of safety, peace and contemplation.” “Elk Meadows is a priceless pedestal on which rests one of Utah’s most powerful peaks, Mount Timpanogos,” Jamie Redford wrote in the letter. In the day’s emotional high point, Redford read a letter written “with this occasion in mind,” he said, in 2020 by his son, Jamie, who died in October 2020, at age 58. Robert Redford, who sold the Sundance Resort to a pair of high-end resort developers in December 2019, thanked the friends attending the noon-hour event, noting “how meaningful it is to us, and particularly me, that you’re all here because of what this place represents.” “We are stewards, we were stewards, we always will be stewards,” Redford’s daughter, Amy Redford, said during a celebration of about 100 people in a meadow in what is now to be called the Redford Family Elk Meadows Preserve, which the family dedicated Thursday. Among friends, butterflies and a wandering deer, actor and activist Robert Redford and his family gathered in a remote part of the Sundance Mountain Resort to celebrate a commitment to conserve 316 acres of land forever.

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