Park City’s Main Street will be closed to cars during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. It’s the first road closing of this kind in the event’s history.

Whether the Sundance Film Festival remains in Utah or moves to Boulder, Colorado or Cincinnati, Ohio in 2027, the 2025 gathering will see some big changes. And we don’t mean on screen. Rather on the streets — Park City’s often congested Main Street.

Park City's Main Street will be pedestrian-only during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, according to Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter.

Park City on Wednesday said it will close Main Street to traffic during the Sundance Film Festival in an effort to increase safety in the weeks after the mass killing in New Orleans by a truck driver.

PARK CITY, Utah—Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter announced Wednesday that Main Street will close to vehicular traffic during the 2025 Sundance Film

They blew in like a fresh breeze through the Park City Council Chamber doors, bringing a burst of enthusiasm in their turn at the podium during a crowded council meeting gone maybe a little grumpy with graybeards who had settled cross-armed at notions of change along Main Street,