How do u get certified to design a park

dude i sometimes wish there was some form of park certification cause i feel like half the dudes that run parks at smaller resorts build the dumbest shit ever....and in the stupidest ways. And a lot of times unsafe....and for some reason they have this shit stuck in there head that smaller is safer....that may be the case but if you build your shit like a straight dumbass and its small it can still be dangerous as fuck...

my resort is one of those....you could injure yourself on a 4 foot jump or a flat bar pretty easily, and the biggest jump (20 feet at its biggest) is scary to try stuff on because the landing isn't steep at all

come to think of it, if you have the money and time, it also might help to be a "digger: at a summer ski camp to not only get to go for a lot cheaper and ski the park on your off-time, but to also gain some experience working on maintaining parks. your mountain might look at that and be pleased with it.

I feel that... Most European small resort "parks" are hopeless, flat landings, tiny jumps and all the rails are so impossible to reach thanks to gapers using the launch as a kicker.

actually i go to a pretty small resort but they have a legit park. They have a park crew who are pretty good and creative when it comes to features and they switch the jibs up every couple of weeks to keep things fresh. Plus this year we got a new bombadier groomer specifically for the park.

its a pretty good park considering the vertical drop is 200m and theres only 18 runs and 160 acres of skiable terrain(they only open 12 of the runs because the others are double blacks that they decided were to dangerous for the public so they havnt been opened in 25 years)

my mountain is a shitty for park, it's significantly bigger as a mountain but still considered small. however there are two way smaller mountains that sound like they might be around the same size or smaller than yours but they're parks are siiiiiick so i know what you mean. my mountain is retarded and doesn't realize how important their park is for their revenue, all the kids go to the other tiny ones instead, while the management at my main mountain are back in the 80's not understanding how big a deal a park should be. ohhh well. i guess they'll never stop doing a shitty job.

theres a rediculously small shit ass hill called thunder ridge about 20 minutes from my house and i only go there for ski team a few times a week but there park is so bad i wouldnt even call it a park. it is some homemade ass box and unhitable rails and all the kids for the most part suck huge balls there. they did get some new boxes but im sure they will be to lazy to put them up. like if this mountain was dedicated to the park and had a good one thatw as fun and shit i would go there every day and im sure so many more people would go there instead of them having only ski teams once a week and shitty locals consdiering most of the kids that go there regularly only want to ski park for the most part cause it sucks so much as a mountain

i am in the Ski resort management major in the Recreation major at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville Vermont.  I am only a freshman this year but park design, grooming, and mountain biking is what i hope to get myself into for the future.  It's a really good program for such a small school

i do understand the fact that money is a large issue for parks but considering the fact that the hill im talking about (boyne MT) built a 500 foot superpipe they obviously have some sort of cash to pump into the park why not get someone that can do the job right if they want to have stuff like that

My home mountain is tiny, only 20 acres, and all of the snow is manmade. Three out of the ten runs are park though, and and the park is amazing for the size. Because of the park, it is one of the most successful hills in the region.