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.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has been working “diligently” to keep Sundance Film Festival returning to Park City, Utah, he said at a press conference Thursday. “I believe that Sundance is is an important part of the state of Utah and and has been for such a long time,

Park City will close much of Main Street to vehicular traffic during the opening days of the Sundance Film Festival.

Park City Film regularly showcases films at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium. During Sundance, however, the auditorium is used to screen festival films. Park City Film Executive Director Katy Wang said the changeover is pretty seamless.

Utah's challengers are reportedly offering strong incentives to lure the event out of the Beehive State. Colorado lawmakers, for example, are looking to offer up to $34 million in tax incentives for a festival that sells over 100,000 tickets and brings in more than 10,000 out-of-state visitors, the Durango Herald reported.

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 business owners hopeful after car-free announcement during Sundance Film Festival