The Four Terrain Parks of the Breckenridge Ski Resort

The Breckenridge Ski Resort was one of the world's first mountain resorts to allow snowboarders on its slopes. Today, with more than 20 years experience in developing cutting edge freestyle terrain, Breckenridge offers four world-class parks and half pipes with features ranging from family appropriate beginner terrain to massive 90-plus foot jumps. The resort is now world-renowned for its freestyle terrain programs and consistently garners top-3 rankings from prominent ski and snowboard publications.

With the evolution of twin tip skis and the growing popularity of freeskiing, the terrain features at Breckenridge have continued to evolve. If you're planning a Breckenridge Ski Vacation Package this winter, consider dropping into one of the resort's four terrain parks for a bit of freestyle adventure. This following is your guide to freestyle snowboarding and skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Breckenridge's most famous terrain park is known simply as Freeway, expert level park featuring one of the world's largest triple jump lines as well as a myriad of rail and jib features. The layout and design of the terrain features are changed up regularly to keep things interesting for the world's top skiers and snowboarders. The super pipe at Freeway, which features 18-foot high walls, is considered to be the world's best. To access the Freeway terrain park, follow the Four O'clock run to its intersection with the Freeway trail. Visitors without the skills or gumption to hit the terrain park's massive features, will find a phenomenal spectating venue located at the top of the run.

During the 2007-2008 winter season Breckenridge added a new terrain park on Peak 8 to intermediate skiers and snowboarders hone and build their freestyle abilities. Dubbed Park Lane, the new park features 3,500 feet of hits, jumps, rails and jibs, all of which have been hand-crafted by Breckenridge's award winning park crew. To accomplish the task of creating so many new features, the ski resort added an extensive snowmaking system to ensure enough snow would be available to shape and create the park's jump features.

By locating Park Lane next to Freeway and near Peak 8's beginner parks, Breckenridge created a multi-level "pod park" with freestyle facilities of various difficulty levels all within close proximity of each other. The idea behind this is to allow skiers and rides the ability to gradually build confidence as they transition from one park level to the next.

Skiers and snowboarders who are just just starting out in the world of freestyle will appreciate Breckenridge's two entry level terrain parks. Trygves and Eldorado are located near the base areas of Peaks 8 and 9. These parks feature small rail and jump features as well as entry level half pipes. By keeping the jump, jib and rail features low to the ground, the resort is able to minimize the risk of learning new skills while helping its visitors maximize their progression. These terrain parks are well laid out and are appropriate for families wanting to learn a new aspect of skiing or riding together. With the close proximity of these parks to the resort's base areas, Moms and dads have great opportunities to capture their children's improvement on camera from the window or balcony of their Breckenridge lodging property.

The Breckenridge Ski Resort has earned its strong reputation among as a leader within the freestyle industry and consistently works hard to maintain it. No matter what level your freestyling abilities may be, you can find terrain that has been appropriately designed for you in one of Breckenridge's four mountain terrain parks.