2009 Resort Poll: East Coast Rankings
DannyGariepy
- November 13 2008
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Top Five East Coast Parks
1. Loon Mountain, New Hampshire
Loon lets the team colors fly all the way down to the orange marking so you can see where to drop a melon without getting all mushy. Bode Merrill is sixteen up and ripe. PHOTO: Brian Norton
2. Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Waterville’s park has been on point for years and is the East Coast stop of choice for contests like the TransAm and Volcom’s Peanut Butter & Rail Jam. The Waterville park staff is dedicated, friendly, and led by ex-Think Thank ripper Luke Mathison, who is by no means afraid to yell at a kook, for safety’s sake of course. waterville.com
3. Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada
Charles Reid grabbing some of that picturesque hang time with this rocket to gondolaville, Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada. PHOTO: Simon Busque
Tremblant has three parks—a progression zone, an intermediate zone, and an advanced zone. They combine to span 40 acres, so you may want a hit list of spots to shred before heading out. There’s music blasting out of the speakers and local shredders polishing all the features, giving riders from all over good reason to make the trip out other than for the parties. tremblant.ca
4. Okemo, Vermont
Okemo gives riders a few options for park riding. The Dew Zone is a jib park where Okemo houses most of its signature rail features, and there’s a short surface lift specifically for park and pipe laps. The Nor’Easter is the signature park—a long, straight trail that seems endless and is packed with rails, jumps, and wallrides. You’ll be pulling off for a break before you make it halfway down. okemo.com
5. Big Boulder, Pennsylvania
Mike Bennett rallies a late-night board wheelie at the rising star Big Boulder, Pennsylvania. PHOTO: Ben Birk
If you’ve paid any attention to twsnow.com in the past year, you should have heard of Big Boulder by now. Host to the 2008 TransAm and countless other local events that have graced the pages of our online counterpart, Big Boulder is making its mark on the East Coast park scene. The park even has its own Web site: bigboulderpark.com.
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November 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
odviously no one who took this survey has been to mountain creek new jersey,,,,,way nicer park and yes ive been to every place mentioned above
November 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
big boulder is terrible. i’ve never been there and had a good time or felt a good vibe. their lips are built like quarter pipes and their runs are so short.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
i was on the east coast and rode big boulder, loon mountain, and mountain creek. loon was by far the best because they had so much more snow than the other places and so many big booters and stuff.big boulder was alright but their features werent maintaned well and it wasn’t much fun to ride. at mountain creek i had the most fun of all three, with the little snow they had, they made it work into a few super fun top to bottom runs.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
boulder is pretty good, but i like creek better, some stuff at boulder is better, but its like riding a bunny hill or something, i hate how small that place is and their lifts. its cool that they are open a lot and stuff, but it doesnt feel like you are riding a mountain. creek is def better i think.
November 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Of these i have only beeen to Mountain Creek, but have seen alot from all of these resorts. Creek has alot of features, but lacks the snow to build 40-60 foot jump lines and use all their features. Creek also doesn’t change or maintain their features well and wastes snow on a halfpipe which opened March 1st instead of building jumps. If creek had the snow it would definitely be Top 5 and probably is top 10 on the east right now.
November 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Loon is the clear winner. They definitly have the best park on the east and better jibs than most on the west. i rode loon christmas time last season and didn’t even go in the park because there was 3 feet of powder.beautiful wet east coast powder. and NJ smells bad
November 13th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
eat dick
November 13th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Where’s Seven Springs on this list?
November 13th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Loon definately has good marketing team that deals with Transworld well, beacause Loon is not really great as ranking #1 in east cost, too far from everywhere, too deep inside of upper NH, and worst parking system. I believe Mt.Creek and Stratton has a lot better park features, although creek has huge park area, but only with small rails and boxes. They need to properly hire park crews like stratton, not cheap wage high schoolers. I saw they use water to keep the snow in shape, not using salt, that was looking funny & sily. Crews carry 5 gallon bottle around the park. I vote for Mammoth lakes, CA and Whistler, BC in west cost, and Mt.Creek, Stratton, and mount snow in east cost.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Hey guys the shakedown is at the mont saint-sauveur not at tremblant !!!”"!$”!$
November 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
OHHHH ITS THERE PETE top 5 pipes on the east coast chicka chicka yeaaaaaaahhhhhh
November 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
mountain creek has good rails, and lots of them. best people and best vibe out of any place on the east coast. you won’t find more people having more fun on the right coast. boulder sucks, ian is fat, and their rails wobble at the least breeze. how can you have a man running the park if he can’t even snowboard, i mean physically the man is too top heavy.
mountain creek is the best.
fock big boulder. best rails, worse people.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hey Jake, these rankings don’t care about the parking, and what was so bad with it anyway. This is for the best resort/parks on the east coast. The resort is right off 93, how hard is that? You can’t even argue that anyone puts together a better park, hell, there are some places out west in the top 10 that can’t compare to some of the stuff Loon was able to do last year. Stratton’s park was crap, I’ve never seen a bigger shitshow in my life. And mt. creek… are you serious, that place is in america’s armpit. Nuff said.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am
um…waaay nicer Park?!!! Um….NO
November 15th, 2008 at 10:20 am
loon takes it without a doubt. stratton should go home and lie down. mt snow used to be sick years and years ago but i havent been impressed with anything theyve done in the last few years
November 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
waterville sux i hate riding the tow rope all day. The jumps are all geared towards skiers so weakkkkkkkkkkk
November 15th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
stop talking about mountain creek. It has snow 4 2 months a year. No one would know about if it wasen’t 4 danny cass
November 15th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
BRISTOL MOUNTAIN!!! IS THE BEST… not really.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Creek sucks, They never get any snow, They never make any snow. the park crew sucks the rail’s are not kept up at all just youtube some creek footy your bound to come across people falling in giant holes at the end of rails. Ride anywhere but creek.
November 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Okemo has got nothing on Killington’s park. Killington still doesn’t know how to cut a half pipe though.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:18 am
LOOOOOOON!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:04 am
dood NJ blows!!!!! my backyard has more vertical then mountain creek. Loon is really not all that. yes their park is dank but you cant get many park laps in because of the gondaola it takes forever. Im shocked stowe didnt get mentioned. Stowe is dank and has a nice park they get a lot of snow. Mount Snow has a really nice park too. i loved there jump line last year and Carinthia is going to be fucking sick. there going to have the best park this year hands down.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
does the east coast really suck so bad they had to give it it’s own brakket???
I’ve never been out east…
but it dosen’t look that bad…
but i’m kinda wondering why the east got it’s own divsion…
(less snow???)
November 17th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
being one of these un train park crew fellows. we used the water becuase the snow was too dry for salt. it was all granular, salt only works when there is mosture in the snow. the water solidified the granular and froze up solid so that there wasn’t bomb holes the rest of the night.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Go to boulder a few times a year…
The hits are pretty enormous for the East coast in bp’s large park. All are solid 30-60 footers, usually two are built side-by-side allowing for a huge tranny. You can find some real up-and-comers filming there. Rails are solid. 1/2 pipe is non-existent most of the time, but no surprise there. Runs are short, icy conditions can definitely make safely using the big hits impossible more than a handful of times per year, but shawdows aren’t much of an issue and the big park is definitely steep enough for the huge hits.
The resort itself is trash. Marketing it as a park was the only way to keep from updating any facilities or lifts. THE LIFT ARE SLOW AS BALLS. The last coat of paint might have been put on in the 70s. The lodge stinks. Parking is actually ok in capacity, but the parking lot looks like a minefield from WWII. Bring a truck or SUV if you don’t want to bottom out.
Accurate to only include them in top five for parks, but it IS a serious park that’s usually busy with serious talent. Hits and rails are better in quality than I saw at Stowe or Killington last year.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Loon wins, i’ve had a pass there for four years and have never been disappointed. The vibe is chill, a speedy gondola to the top from where you can hit a few parks. You almost always see some park crew out there on every run fixing something. location, 5 minutes off 93. You can’t beat it
November 19th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Everything about the state of New Jersey sucks! Therefore nothing good can come from there! I just spent the last year there and I would have rathered been dead! I’m from Arizona and our snow is better!!! Mountains…. not hills Jersey Scum!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
im from jersey and ride creek all the time, but Big Boulder has a nicer park
Mountain creek stepped it up with the jiblab and all that, but they dont maintain it for sh.it and mot of the landings have huge bomb holes in them like a grenade exploded at the end of almost every jib and the landing of almost every hit. Creek has some potential but their park crew either needs to get bigger or they need to work harder at fixing landings.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
BUT creek does have the best vibe. its fun as hell. forgot to put that in there.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am
i agree with dylan, i ride creek alot and every year they have new features, which is nice….but every year they also have way too many kids for each jib and the landings turn into giant bomb holes…..we went up this one time and up at the top with all the small boxes and shit, at the begining of the day the landings were fine, by noon there were some semi-deep ruts and by the end of the day the ruts were so deep you had to ollie out of whatever slide you were doing to try and avoid them because landing in them wasn’t an option anymore
creek is good, real good, but they def don’t maintain well enough hour by hour to be put up on here
November 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am
i ride loon 4 days a week and it never gets old…loon represent all day
November 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
loon also had the best jump line i have ever seen last season.. 70ft to end the line then u had a 40 ft wall ride and the hubba what else could u ask for….
November 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
creek had this image of producing talented riders because of the shit conditions so they get to the west and kill it.
which still happens.
but if they dont get to the west, they just seem to get mad the “we’re dirty-our-shit-sucks-you-cant-ride-ice-we’re-tough-as-nails” image doesnt stack up.
case in point a PA/NJ park will ALWAYS suck. so you gotta move.
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I ride Loon and i grew up in PA and still shred there when in the area. All you in the mid Atlantic are lucky boulder and mtn creek were even mentioned there are many other parks in the north east that are way better in more ways then one! Cranmore and Stowe to name some and even smaller mtns like Gunstock and Crotched. so check up on Crotched Locals Killin It out west Brandon Reis and Sam Hulbert and Gunstock shredder Chas Guldemond! if you wanna see GOOD parks get up HERE!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Mountain Creek has gone downhill big time! They park crew is not very motivated and the park has very poor flow. The old park on North peak was better with only 1/2 of the terrain! Something must have changed, mountain creek isn’t the trendsetter it used to be.
December 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
EVERYONE who believes loon doesn’t deserve first are just jealous there mountain isn’t first. LOON is clearly the best for parks and pipes, Mountain creek doesnt even have one 35 footer blows chunks. Loon may not have two many trails but they focus on their park,not other trails. Loon blows snow from opening day to at least january in the park so they can still be ranked #1 in east. and our park crew may be highschoolers but there not as freakin lazy as mountain creeks and other mountains
December 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
big boulder is amazing. and if you think that their lips are like quarter pipes then you must of never hit a real kicker!?! they are perfect..steep lip and steep gradual landing. Come and ride and ill gaurenteeeeeeee you will be stoked
December 11th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
its not a mountain…its a park (big boulder PARK) if you want to ride trail go rightttt down the road to jack frost they have a really good jump line and real nice trails…
December 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
very welllll stated…never been to loon but it sounds badass, but also on another note, big boulder has stepped their game up alottt in the past couple years and this year will be amazing.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I would say the best mountain on the east coast would have to Jay Peak in northern Vermont. It gets 375″ of snow a year. And powder is way sicker than park any day!!!
January 28th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Mountain Creek New Jersey has the best terrain park and jibs on the east coast. The halfpipe isnt the best when they have it.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
I know someone already said it but it needs to be repeated - JERSEY SUCKS - I don’t care if it’s the people, the water, the traffic, the attitude, Mountain Creek, the Joey’s - it all SUCKS!
DONT JERSEY VERMONT!
February 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Holiday Valley NY
Good parks, lots of runs, dedicated park staff.
February 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I went up to Big Boulder today with some friends. The only reason I went was because it was so hyped up in the mags. I was extremely dissapointed. I ride Bear Creek 6 days a week and I see so much more talent and quality there than I did at Boulder. The rails were horrible. Their crew sucked, along with thier lifts, logde and pretty much everything else. I’m an instructor and my friends and I were the best people there untill about 4. The only nice thing about it was in the early morning there was some nice pow but that even dissapeared. If you want a real park, with a real lodge, park crew, and you want to see some amazing kids go to Bear Creek. I don’t care what people say but the quality and skill are there even without the vertical. Plus it has a pretty bangin hotel.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm
bear creek is whats up, a great local crowd if your looking for some fun, not the biggest place for sure but hey its not always about the amount of stuff a mountain has, its how you use what you have to work with it. probably the funnest place to ride, because everyone is hitting the same stuff and trying something sicker than the drop before.
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