Top 6 resorts with Rad Parks and Pipes for freestyle

Each of the these resorts has outstanding parks and pipes for freestyle skiers and snowboarders, plus super instructors who can teach you to ride, jib and make rad hits – whether you’re 10- or 40-years-old. At these resorts skiers and snowboarders will find progressively sized freestyle terrain. Start in the parks and mini-pipes for newbies and work your way (if you dare) up to the monster rails, tricks and hits.

1. Copper Mountain Resort
Copper Mountain’s freestyle terrain earns kudos annually from the major freestyle skiing and snowboarding magazines. The main terrain park, Catalyst, has a beginner track with mini-kickers and small rails on one side. As you improve, you graduate toward the far end of the park, with its giant tabletops, hip features and superpipe.




2. Whistler Blackcomb

Here skiers and snowboarders start learning in the easy Terrain Garden on Blackcomb then graduate to the Habitat Park on Whistler Mountain. Ready for more challenges? First it’s testing your growing freestyle skills in the Nintendo Park until you’re good enough to play in the Highest Level on Blackcomb, which has X-rated features.



3. Keystone Resort

Day and night, the music blares through speakers while freestyle skiers and snowboarders attack the rail lines, jumps and dozens of other features in the massive A51 Terrain Park








4. Mammoth Mountain
Mammoth's Unbound Terrain Park is actually three parks: Unbound Main, South Park, and the Family Fun Park, spread over 75 acres on eight runs. There are also three pipes: Super Pipe, Super-Duper Pipe and Mini Pipe. The three parks and pipes, plus the rails and fun boxes are built alike, but in different sizes. They are designed this way to encourage riders to work their way up, for example, from the smaller 10-foot jumps to the 80-foot jumps.


5. Buttermilk
When it snows Buttermilk, one of Aspen Skiing Company’s four mountains, annually becomes the scene for the ESPN Winter X Games. Does learning that Buttermilk’s Crazy Train Park was named after the infamous song by Ozzy Osbourne give you a clue about the action in this superpipe and terrain park? Freestyle skier or rider, you'll love it here.



6. Steamboat
Home to the Maverick Superpipe, one of the longest superpipe in North American, Steamboat offers both ski and snowboard Freestyle Park & Pipes clinics throughout the winter. The terrain park was designed with learning to be a better freestyle skier or snowboarder in mind