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Worst park in the U.S. contest

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joshc97
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To start things off I would like to nominate Welch Village in MN. They have 3 small beginner rail features... No jumps. They also aren't maintained very well. Who can top that?
Dec 23 2012 12:08AM
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Pikachu.
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how bout all the mountains with no park... they win?
Dec 23 2012 12:09AM
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SkiBum.
Posts: 3597 - Karma: 3,897
Alta. It is such a joke. No park at all. No where to get my jib on.
Dec 23 2012 12:13AM
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nine50seven
Posts: 576 - Karma: 686
i would have to agree with welch when i sucked and could hardly do a box i thought the park sucked
Dec 23 2012 12:15AM
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roddy116
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there has to be some place worse then welch, remember when welch used to be the shit?
Dec 23 2012 12:17AM
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Mr.Gaga
Posts: 2021 - Karma: 542
Bromont

For the last 4-5 years they had a sick park with 5-6 jumps from 15-60ft and they were getting better with rails every year. But they decided to close the big park and replace it by 6 small rail parks. No jumps (or nothing over 22ft long) some rails here and there. Fucking sucks.
Dec 23 2012 12:26AM
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Plankton
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bretton woods currently has 4 skate rails
Dec 23 2012 12:32AM
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rockersteez
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Yeah. Also kind of a lame contest. It sucks when the mountain you ski isn't as good as what you want, but there's pretty much always somebody with a shittier mountain.

I grew up at a mountain with no park. Had shovels in my backpack. Would spend the first 3 or 4 hours of the day building some nice jumps off headwalls, then spend the rest of the day/night seching it. Cat would run them over, repeat all year every year.

If you don't like the park at your mountain,  get a job on the park crew and try and make things better. The thing that sucks is WAYYYYY to often when that happens, the kids don't do anything.

Complain about park, get hired on crew, ski with friends and neglect park, nothing changes.


At least these days a lot of mountains are stepping up. I mean people are crying because there mountains have a couple lame rails and a small jump. Go back 15 years and that would have people stoked that their mountain build them something.


Just something to think about. Maybe try to talk to the management at your hill and let them know that there's a big interest in park skiing that they're missing out on.
Dec 23 2012 1:01AM
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CrotchKiller
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Breck, park lane isn't even open
Dec 23 2012 2:07AM
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Blurst
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Snow valley in ontario is pretty fucking brutal. Im sure there are some worse ones but that is the worst park i have ever ridden.
Dec 23 2012 2:18AM
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ILLinoisance
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alta has no park. can that be beat?
Dec 23 2012 2:24AM
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rockersteez
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They used to have a park but ski patrol blew it up.
Dec 23 2012 2:31AM
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Armada333
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mesant..






the park at Avila isnt open yet only one feature.. (pretty fucking dope tough)





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Dec 23 2012 6:24AM
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TroyAntipasta
Posts: 444 - Karma: 535
Jiminy Peak MA.
Dec 23 2012 8:11AM
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*Nickdel*
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Jiminys park 5 or 6 years ago was the shit. Ever since they got new park rangers it has just gone downhill
Dec 23 2012 8:39AM
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Round-Four
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hvent been in a few years, but i remember thunder ridge, ny being pretty awful. they had a 100ft long hand dug half pipe which was no where near straight and the walls were dirt. for rails there was a couple shitty skate rails and a box made out of thumbtacks, and all the other features seemed like they came from a concrete salvage yard. there was a little concrete dome thing, about 2 ft across and 8 inches high, just sitting flat in the snow; a concrete pyramid, about 2 ft across and 2 ft high, flat in the snow; and a concrete flat box which hadnt been waxed or anything so if you tried to get on it would just remove your bases for you.
Dec 23 2012 9:44AM
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deepfriedtwinkie
Posts: 434 - Karma: 389
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Dec 23 2012 10:18AM
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Hypno_Cat
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wintergreen Virginia. not even open yet. had between 6-9 rails features and one small jump
Dec 23 2012 10:25AM
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RIP_leos_shack
Posts: 710 - Karma: 3,201
Alta or Revelstoke.
Dec 23 2012 10:43AM
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MittensFoDayze
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Thunder Ridge, NY. Three boxes side by side so you have to hike after every hit.
Dec 23 2012 3:30PM
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Squeenerd
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I would like to nominate snowbird. The jumps are tiny and the landings are way too steep compared to the lip; the rails are sticky and bent, for example: on the flat down box, there are no supports on the down part making it like a diving board, so any sort of disaster over the flat generally ends in disaster. But it doesn't matter cause why ski park if youre at the bird. Just sayin though
Dec 23 2012 3:35PM
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C_Thomps-12
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i have a downrail and a 5 foot flat rail...
Dec 23 2012 3:38PM
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Funnel
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China Peak in Lakeshore, California.
Dec 23 2012 3:41PM
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YoungChristmas
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Why would you even want to ski park at alta or revelstoke
Dec 23 2012 5:54PM
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hippi3773
Posts: 363 - Karma: 273
Try visiting whitecap in wisconsin. One flat rail, one small jump with a flat landing...., and an unfinished rainbow rail. When i say unfinished I mean no take off but that's how they keep it every year...
Dec 23 2012 5:57PM
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Mr.Sloth
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Winterplace, Wv. Going there tomorrow
Dec 23 2012 5:58PM
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BrewskiJr
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At least you guys have a mountain open....
Dec 23 2012 6:30PM
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ski.cats
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heavnely has been doing a pitiful job with their "early season" park
Dec 23 2012 6:36PM
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DayMan
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If I lived at either of these places, even if they had a park, I would never step foot in it. Why would you want to ski park here when you have some of the most epic mountains in North America?
Dec 23 2012 6:36PM
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Dr.Gonzo
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didn't they ban jumps in QC or something? I heard only a few places in Quebec have jumps still.
Dec 23 2012 6:52PM
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SkiTennessee
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Park city, like why the fuck can they call what they have a "park" shitty as fuck
Dec 23 2012 7:00PM
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liukangkid
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We need pictures in this thread! Anyone can have a shitty park with a rail or two and a 10 foot jump with no landing. but you really need to have a dismal rusty deathtrap of a park to be in the runnings of "worst park in the us".
Dec 23 2012 7:40PM
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SpliffyJ
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Yawgoo Valley. Boom i win. Loook it up. No park. Says there is one.. but they put one rail sometimes on a different trail...
Dec 23 2012 7:57PM
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Billiards.
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Definitely should turn this thread into a "post pictures of the worst built features" thread. We all know we are lucky to have features, but the worst is when a park claims to be sick, but sets up the shittiest features ever.
Dec 23 2012 8:00PM
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KravtZ
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agreed. The SHITTIEST park in the world. Never been to a place that literally has such a shitty park. Nothing is hittable and everything that is is concrete and you have to be a retard to hit concrete. Better off just not having any park there. But I only skied there for free after high school for ski team
Dec 23 2012 8:03PM
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KravtZ
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agreed. The SHITTIEST park in the world. Never been to a place that literally has such a shitty park. Nothing is hittable and everything that is is concrete and you have to be a retard to hit concrete. Better off just not having any park there. But I only skied there for free after high school for ski team
Dec 23 2012 8:03PM
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snowfinder
Posts: 2727 - Karma: 33,009
brighton which is right next to alta has one awesome park.
Dec 23 2012 8:06PM
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pussy_puncher
Posts: 194 - Karma: 69

good thread but i think pictures of all the shitty bent features you all speak of would make it much more entertaining

Dec 23 2012 8:10PM
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coolflash8
Posts: 3171 - Karma: 2,046
The worst park is no park. Even on a bad park you can progress a ton
Dec 23 2012 8:14PM
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Caspaaa
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yeah but by the end of the year they'll have that park near the peak with a solid 25-35 foot jump and a bunch of smaller ones, and the main park usually isn't all that bad


last year there was a flat box, a 15 ft jump alongside a 10 ft jump to barrel tap type thing, an up rail and a flat box farther to the right of those jumps, then the next hit was your choice of a pole jam, an unboe rail, a staircase with a urban down tube or urban down box, or another flat box

and even farther after that was a flat tube, a small flat rail, and a c box


definitely not the worst park i've ever hit.
Dec 23 2012 8:36PM
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YoungChristmas
Posts: 1065 - Karma: 2,105
Yawgoo doesn't look that bad.

Arnette Crew Clash 2.0: Yawgoons from YoBeat on Vimeo.

Dec 23 2012 8:46PM
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SteezyLaxer
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Campgaw in Mahwah NJ. Grommet at Mt. Snow has bigger and funner features.
Dec 23 2012 8:52PM
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GlackAttack
Posts: 83 - Karma: 234
So glad I'm never going back there
Dec 24 2012 2:11AM
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Darth.Maul
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I nominate Park City. Its 1 month into the season and we only have 2 parks open. And the park crew is constantly closing features pretending fix the lips but in reality they just want to make us miserable... Fk u PC
Dec 24 2012 2:13AM
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bakedpow
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baker cuz it rains so much
Dec 24 2012 2:18AM
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ILLinoisance
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Sounds rough, man. We haven't had any measurable snow yet this year....
Dec 24 2012 2:19AM
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Darth.Maul
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Damn that sucks man! And to think that my friends and I were bitching about November 17th being the opening day over here...

Just come out to Utah man! We have all of our good resorts open and pretty much all of the runs and lifts are open as of last week!
Dec 24 2012 2:21AM
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PacificRimJob
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Mt. Ashland, Oregon.

Only 1 feature there is not a total bent out of shape piece of shit... the rest of it is all basically garbage because the cat drivers over the last few years would come to work wasted at 6am on a pow day and think it was a good idea to groom the park... running over the features (and damaging the cat in the process). The GM of the place is also a total racer prude who puts so little effort into establishing a decent park, yet is all about closing off runs for races every weekend...

... the mountain's pretty rad other than that though - for a small hill it's got some steeps and some of the most techy treelines ever.


Dec 24 2012 2:24AM
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Heart
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Dec 24 2012 2:51AM
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YoungJ
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Yawgoo Valley Rhode Island --- corrugated up tube to a 5 foot 4 bar ... come and youll understand

Dec 24 2012 7:41AM
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loongoons
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Loon in NH has a pretty good park but all the park rangers are snowboarders. Not only are they dicks to all the skiiers but all the features they make are for snowboarding.
Dec 24 2012 9:48AM
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