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Best Parks in Midwest, Opinions?

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skiingsteve
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I'm from the Midwest. I want to hear some opinions of other people from the Midwest. Like their favorite resort and why, and maybe some comparisons?
Jan 28 2014 8:37PM
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JCTheut
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Cannonsburg in Michigan is great. They have 5 parks ranging from a mini park to a urban style park. There jumps are pretty good too.
Jan 28 2014 8:52PM
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ATLskier
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sleeepy hollow sports park, ia
Jan 28 2014 8:59PM
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rememberscott
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[rib mountain]
Jan 28 2014 9:00PM
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skiingsteve
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I checked out their website. Cannonsburg's park looks 100 times better than most of the parks in Wisconsin. That is where i'm from.
Jan 28 2014 9:01PM
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Squirtle
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Spirit mountain. It has two jump lines. One is made of 3 jumps, 50-60 feet from lip to landing. The other is made up of 2 jumps, 20-25 feet from lip to landing. And there's one money booter, it has about a 30-40 foot table but it kicks you up really high into a steep landing. It also has lots and lots of rails, boxes and jibs of different kinds, all set up really cleanly and nice. It also has a small progression park, for the kiddies or just screwing around. And there's this 10 foot tall snow cube. The park is always well groomed, and everything in it is well maintained. Its a really nice park.
Jan 28 2014 9:21PM
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Squirtle
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Also note that the pictures on there website are from a few years ago, its improved sense then.
Jan 28 2014 9:26PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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chestnut in IL. granite peak in wi. tyrol in wi is decent, too.
Jan 28 2014 9:34PM
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White_Goodman
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50-60 feet is false, more like 40 ft. But the jumps are good other than the landings being a bit short. They have some goofy rail setups but some good new features. Some long rails which are super fun, and lots of variety. For sure check it out if you're near Duluth. Also Trollhaugen Wisconsin is fucking great this year. So many big rails, and a big hip. The rail lines are set up perfectly. And Mont Du Lac Wisconsin isn't half bad, they have some fun rails and change up the park weekly.
Jan 28 2014 10:18PM
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Thawg
Posts: 360 - Karma: 542
except for the fact that they are the epitome of little kids and gapers fucking around in the parks. They are literally EVERYWHERE. but the parks are still dope
Jan 28 2014 11:37PM
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smoothie_juice
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Bogus Basin Mtn Dew Terrain Park? Bogus Basin is a resort 16 miles away from Boise, Idaho. Great location! There are no little children standing in landings or parents encouraging youngins to hit da kickers. wonderful!!
Jan 29 2014 12:02AM
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Thawg
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good thing Idaho is in the midwest
Jan 29 2014 12:18AM
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FuckAllOfYou
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welch village mn
Jan 29 2014 12:23AM
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John18_6
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i second this, every rail is so damn prime, they got this tube that is fun to hit fast. their jump line is off the chain too! massive 5s for days.
Jan 29 2014 12:27AM
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nine50seven
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My friend that goes to iowa,state said it had some fun rails,always wanted to check it out I go to sundown and chestnut. Chestnut park is pretty good but its pretty short tho
Jan 29 2014 12:48AM
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VanMelle
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I've experienced the exact opposite...kiddies stay in the small parks, the real riders in the big parks. It is 80% snowboarders tho, if you go on a weekday you'll log 70-100 laps on the rope tows no doubt

Best jib park in michigan (possibly midwest) hands down
Jan 29 2014 1:19AM
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skiingsteve
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I go to cascade mt a lot because its probably the closest to me, but they have a really shitty park. They have everything crammed into this tiny area, and they put the jumps in a place so you don't have enough speed for any of them. The biggest jump they could put is probably only like 30 feet because there's just not enough speed because its just located in a bad spot. And plus, the high speed main lift is right next to the park, allowing families and Asians to just stroll through not giving a fuck about anybody else. Im a huge fan of Devil's Head. I personally think its probably the second best park in wisconsin. (Granite being the first)
Jan 29 2014 7:46AM
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Ankilla
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Perfect North. The easily take the best care of everything they have. They have a damn good park crew. Other resorts in Indiana/Ohio like Paoli, mad river, etc. have larger parks but they don't take care of any of it and by the end of the day, they park is shit. They have super hyped up comps, and there end of the year camp is so much fun because they take the sole resort and make it into one big giant park.
Jan 29 2014 7:53AM
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CashmereCat
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Boom. That sums it up.
Jan 29 2014 8:16AM
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_Cats_
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I am from Pittsburgh and ski at 7springs so I'm used to a pretty nice park and now that I go to Dayton in Ohio I was looking for a new place ski. I checked out mad river and had a pretty good day there. The features are good but they need to take care of the park better. For example there was a big tube and the lip was completely destroyed from the time I got there until I left. Oh ya and they need to paint there kickers. Well all 2 or 3 of them.
Jan 29 2014 1:33PM
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tacotom
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Chestnut Mountain, Galena, Illinois is rad. I go to sundown in Dubuque the majority of the time because it is close to my house. But Chestnut has an ill park. Great features to learn on and then the have huge stuff like a 45ft jump. At the end of the season they have a an x games style slope course with 3 50+ ft jumps. Place is super sick
Jan 29 2014 1:40PM
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YouAllSuck
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I appreciate that every rail is up and there is basically no speed. It makes the experience so enjoyable.
Jan 29 2014 1:49PM
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MI_Shredder
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Nubs Nob and Boyne Highlands in Michigan are pretty sweet
Jan 29 2014 3:22PM
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AceleTerrie
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Bogus's park is just that... bogus
Jan 30 2014 1:17PM
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speedin
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Cascade used to have a wicked terrain park back in the day. Like seriously huge features. Don't know what happened.
Devils head is good but their lifts are old a shit, and really slow.
Granite Peak has the best park in the midwest hands down.

Jan 30 2014 1:21PM
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.Hansel.
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Perfect North is pretty dope, I grew up skiing there and they always have top notch parks (audition and the mini). And they always get pretty creative.

That being said, you couldnt be more wrong about Mad River Mountain. Every one of their park crew dudes loves to ride, so they take very good care of the parks, even when they are open until 3 am on the weekends. This year things have been super creative, with the lower park being switched up once or twice every 2 weeks. The jump line is amazing at the moment and you cant really beat the length of the park.

I love PNS, its home to me, but right now Mad River has such a better park.



Jan 30 2014 1:22PM
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tvonny
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Grand geneva-1 15 foot jump and 4 homemade rails
Jan 30 2014 4:20PM
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jordangaebel
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Powder Ridge MN. Home of 99% snowboarders. Thats why its the best duh.
Jan 30 2014 4:24PM
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TopherRitz
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Not sure if WV counts as midwest, but Snowshoe's parks are sick.
Jan 30 2014 4:29PM
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FunkyMalone
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Cannonsburg no doubt. They tech great care of everything and have really creative features
Jan 30 2014 6:13PM
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bgeskior
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gotta support four lakes
Jan 30 2014 10:12PM
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C-Weezy
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Empire Park, Paoli Peaks Indiana
Jan 30 2014 10:17PM
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Turd.Ferguson
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hey bro gg keepin it reel
Jan 30 2014 10:19PM
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s.t.u.
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Nubs park is sick but highlands main park isn't the best
Jan 30 2014 10:22PM
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WaffleMaster
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you going for straight-up quality or size too?

-Lil Switz has the nicest-shaped jumps I've ever hit, and I've been all over the country.
-Granite peak will have the biggest jumps and most park acrage in WI
-I've heard great things about Tyrol Basin. Pretty sure they have a pipe too.
-The Rock is 100% park and has their own airbag.

Only speaking for Wisconsin here.

Jan 30 2014 10:26PM
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Iraq_Lobster
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SUNDOWN IN DUBUQUE IOWAAAAAAAAA, no actually it sucks but it's my home, chestnut and tyrol are definety the best
Jan 30 2014 10:30PM
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Crispy.
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Granite Peak takes this one home no question.
Jan 30 2014 10:32PM
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ATLskier
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he might be talking about seven oaks, which had a pretty good park. When I was there they had a decent kick, fdf rail, flat box, couple flat/down rails, rainbow c rail(not set up well)

Sleepy hollow was pretty bad when I went. They had a decent down rail. other that everything was really small.


pretty sure i was blackout when i posted the original post haha
Jan 30 2014 11:16PM
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skithedirt
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SKI SNOWSTAR
Jan 30 2014 11:17PM
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nine50seven
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haha possibly its in boone i believe. by chance do you have chronics?
Jan 30 2014 11:23PM
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NMMedia
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Spirit mountain in Duluth MN, the jump line is sick right now! and there are a lot of solid rail features up right now.
Jan 30 2014 11:55PM
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Shifties4Dayz
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You think the burg is bad try Brighton, I guess there's talks of building a parking garage for all 250 feet of snow. Place is packed to the max absolutely every weekend. Back on topic, as far as SE Michigan, Brighton deff has the best park
Jan 31 2014 5:09AM
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McShane
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Hyland Hills, MN. I wouldn't necessarily say it's the best park ever, but the amount of hot laps you get is unreal. No jumpline, but public Super kicker was pretty nice when I was hitting it this year. Somewhere around 50ft I'd say? If you hit Hyland in the mornings before the kids get there, everything is primo.
Jan 31 2014 11:45AM
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Blynch2
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Mad river yo
Jan 31 2014 11:46AM
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chacha33
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If youre looking for 50 9 year olds and 2 snowboarders throwing cork 9s might I suggest Sundown mountain in IA? They just hired a whole bunch of new park crew guys so its gonna stop sucking so bad, and I think they're getting a new snowcat too.
Jan 31 2014 11:53AM
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powerbong2000
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wtf are you guys talking about. Haven't been this year, did something change?
Jan 31 2014 11:58AM
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CashmereCat
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The battleship is my favourite feature of any park I've been to no lie
Jan 31 2014 12:14PM
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wisconsinsteeze
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Perfect north in indiana is really sick

Wisconsin granite and tyrol basin are the top two
Jan 31 2014 12:21PM
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Jernt
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Spirit has always had possibly the best park around. This year is no different and it has been better every year. I may be biased though.
Feb 2 2014 5:23PM
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Dode
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This
Feb 2 2014 8:32PM
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crawley
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Cannonsburg. So much gnarly stuff.

CANNONSBURG TV - MONSTER CITY PARK GRAND REOPENING (S.4-E.5) from Cannonsburg Ski Area on Vimeo.

Feb 2 2014 8:40PM
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