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Top 20 resorts for advanced Terrain
Top 20 resorts for advanced Terrain
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Winter Park is probably the resort to go to if you're in Denver. It is quite huge, it has a large variety of terrain, and is the closest resort to Denver by car! It is best known for awesome bumps, black diamonds, and lots of powder.
Pros:
Coll and known for advanced steep bump runs to get your thighs burning
Very close to Denver
Awesome to navigate - amazing trail map with seven different sections - each of them their own type of terrain and family friendliness
Cons:
CROWDED
EXPENSIVE
Palisades Tahoe is a great place for advanced skiers, with a ton of single black diamonds. This place is amazing. It is extremely famous for its expert terrain, such as The Palisades, KT-22, and the Fingers.
Pros:
Lots of advanced stuff all around the mountain.
The lake brings amazing views
Great historical Olympic center
Cons:
Pretty crowded - Tahoe's most visited ski area
Alta is really great for advanced terrain. The place has an amazing amount of black diamonds, with lots of variety for that challenging terrain. Alta is a classic resort, with lots of famous runs, such as the Baldy Chutes, High Boy, So long, and Gunsight. I will use the same pros and cons as the other review I gave on Alta, on the Expert/Extreme rankings.
Pros:
Lots of traversing needed - keeps the "un-serious" away
No snowboarders!
Barely any beginner terrain - everything is either advanced or extreme
Moguls are huge and on a lot of terrain
Cons:
Lot of traversing needed - unless you're willing to hike (a lot)
No snowboarders.
Barely any beginner terrain - if you aren't very good you will be doomed
Moguls are huge and on a lot of terrain
Snowbird is one of the best resorts in Utah. It's in the Little Cottonwood canyon, near Salt Lake City, and is known for its challenging terrain.
Pros:
Heavy overload of advanced and expert stuff.
Quite a lot of snow, with almost five hundred inches per year!
The place is pretty huge - and since basically the entire thing is hard, the hard area is HUGE!!!
Cons:
The tram line - which gets you to a ton of awesome terrain - can be super long
Whistler Blackcomb is the best ski area in the world, (in my opinion), and so it is not a surprise that this area is on the top 20 for every single ranking list. I think this resort in the best ever.
Pros:
Huge - A lot of everything - beginner, advanced, terrain parks, you name it!
Hiking and traversing almost never required - lift system very efficient
Altitude 2,000 feet - altitude sickness begone!
Cons:
Crowds
To cross the border is a big hassle
Telluride is a resort that is super good for advanced runs. It is mainly known for its extreme terrain, but most of those double blacks have advanced runs right beneath them.
Pros:
Huge amount of advanced runs
The amount of blacks compared to other terrain is amazing.
Great ski town with lots of lodging
Sort of small lift lines
Cons
Very expensive
Big Sky is a huge resort with lots of advanced runs. It not only has all the blacks under Lone Peak, but lots of other stuff all around the mountain.
Pros:
It's really big.
It has lots of black diamond runs
It's not as crowded as some other resorts
Cons:
Difficult to get to with the closest big city being Bozeman
Keystone is the family resort of Summit County. It is pretty big, has lots of amenities, and is home to a ton of black diamonds on the farther away mountains.
Pros:
The advanced stuffs is plentiful
Lots of night skiing
Lift system is pretty nice
Cons:
BAD SNOW EXPENSIVE CROWDS
Jackson Hole is famous (or INfamous), depending on how you look at it, for extreme terrain. Extreme stuff is the brother of advanced, so it is pretty obvious
Pros:
Advanced terrain is in bounty
Good ski town
SNOW!!!
Cons
Not cheap...
TOO MANY PEOPLE!!! THEY HAVE REALIZED THAT THIS IS SUCH A GOOD SKI AREA!!!
Alyeska is Alaska's best. It is for sure the largest resort, the greatest one, and the most famous. It has a lot of black diamonds all along the mountain, with great views of the ocean bay.
Pros:
Black diamond terrain
VIEWS!
Never crowded
Cons:
Really hard to get to
Vail is perhaps the most famous resort in the USA, and that is partly because of its great advanced terrain. The town is great, and the place is huge!
Pros:
Good black diamonds
Humongous
Ski town is amazing - with lots of lodging and good restaurants
Cons:
EXTREMELY CROWDED - look up "vail lift line apocalypse pictures"
Aspen is a major destination for resort skiers in the country. The place is pretty good for advanced skiers, with black diamonds all over and a huge area for you to ski
Pros:
ADVANCED
The town is great
Kinda big
Cons:
EXPENSES!!!
Lots of lift lines
Kirkwood is a good advanced resort with amazing mogul runs everywhere. It's good with snow, and has, on average, the best conditions in Tahoe. It's never crowded.
Pros:
Expert bump runs everywhere along the mountain
Easy to get to
So much snow! Over 450 inches a year!
Cons:
Not as many extreme chutes - it's more of an expert mountain
Mammoth Mountain is a mammoth ski area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is huge, and has great advanced terrain. It is also the highest resort in california, so it gets plenty of snow.
Pros:
Black diamond terrain is amazing
Snowfall is great!
Plenty of runs to explore
Cons:
Tons of terrain parks if you like them
Breckenridge is one of the best resorts in the US, with the highest visitation rate of any resort. It has a great ski town, good snow preservation, and lots of advanced terrain to explore!
Pros:
Lots of blacks
HUGE!!!
Huge town with lots of lodging
Cons:
CROWDED
EXPENSIVE
Grand Targhee is a resort that has a lot of decent blacks and a ton of powder. It has a lot less lines then its neighbor, Jackson Hole.
Pros:
Blacks all around the mountain
Powder!!!
Uncrowded
Cons:
Not that big - the resort doesn't have as much vertical as some other resorts if you are not willing to explore the backcountry
Steamboat is one of the most popular ski resorts in the USA. It has a lot of snow, especially near Christmas, and has a lot of good black mogul runs.
Pros:
Good moguls with a lot of black diamond terrain
Snow is amazing near winter break
Tree skiing is the best in the US
Cons:
CROWDED
EXPENSIVE
Park City is the biggest ski resort in the US of A. It has a ton of black diamonds to shred, and a huge ski town with everything a Utah resort has to offer.
Pros:
The advanced terrain is everywhere and top quality
Humongous!!!
Travel ease is amazing
Close to a lot of other resorts in utah, especially good ones for advanced runs.
Cons:
Snowfall isn't that great so rocks can often be especially on the black diamonds
CROWDED, but the huge area makes it easier to find freshies
EXPENSIVE
Crystal mountain is the alpha resort for Washington. It has a lot of advanced terrain. It is huge, but kind of crowded because it is the biggest resort in the area.
Pros:
Black diamonds are good and quality
Lots of terrain to explore
Snowfall is good
Cons:
CROWDED!!!
Beaver creek is a luxury resort in Colorado. It is really good for advanced terrain. It has huge vertical, and has a huge variety of terrain.
Pros:
Lots of black diamonds
Huge
Luxurious
Cons:
Expensive
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