Coming from Cali-Vail vs. Breckenridge

I personally love breck, but Vail is massive, and got some amazing skiing. If park is your thing you cant go wrong at Breck, plus you can always hop on a bus for night skiing and keystone. As far as night life goes Breckenridge is a great place to get shitty. awesome bars and chill people, although some of the year you get a shit load of texas assholes rolling through. Personally i find breck to be less stuck up and snobby than vail.

Don't come to Kirkwood, it sucks here.

Beaver creek is way better than vail.

A basin is better than breck or keystone.

The only reason to ride breck is to stand in line and who the fuck wants to do that?

Note, the above messages do not take into account the terrain parks and or stunt ditches.

Kirkwood and Heavenly will be my main resort this year

If your going peak season on a weekend def listen to this guy, and stay away from vail and breck. During the week both are usually bearable, but personally I have a vendetta against vail because parking is $25. If you ride park you really cant beat breck and key, both are amazing for all skill levels. Vail's park is actually really under-rated in my opinion as well. As far as nightlife goes I havent really experienced a night out at vail but I can imagine it would be very expensive and snobby, breck def wins that battle.

I'd say for the combination of park and all mountain Breckenridge is the best mountain. If you're looking to ski a lot of all mountain stuff then I would go Vail or A-basin. If you're going more specifically for park then Breck and Keystone are on another level from the other choices.

Whoever posted earlier was definitely right in saying that if you go to breck during a busy time your going to have to wait in massive lines, and the park lift is also the lift to the greens/ blues so it can be a pain in the ass. Keystone has it's own lift for the park and in general doesn't get as crowded as Breck so that could be the place to go for park.

They're all great resorts though, and you'll have a great time no matter where you go, so good luck!

Sounds lame but Vail is more comfortable to ski. Less people because its bigger, and a different atmosphere. I love both, granite I live in Vail and can ski home off the mtn. But you get a ton more acreage as well as pretty sick park(s). Not comparable to brecks parks tho, well maybe a little. Summit has the advantage to 5 resorts relatively close also.

as stated prior, vail is massive. While there can be some lift lines on the weekends. The place is so huge, and the runs are soo wide that its bearable.
I think beaver creek is the shit. Perfect combo of size, and terrain.