Sking/snowboarding?

Question

i want to go sking or snowboarding in december. where is the best place to go? i was thinking colorado or New Mexico, but im not sure what city. FYI I live in Texas so i dont want to go to far up north.

Answer 1

you can go to Park City, Utah look around they have good deals. You can always call and see what their prices are.

Answer 2

Colorado has some of the best skiing/snowboarding in the US. There are also TONS of places to choose from. I would recommend Breck or Winter Park. Also, go with snowboarding!

Answer 3

Utah has the best snow & you save money on transportation to the mountains from the airport b/c the airport is near the resort.  Don't get me wrong.  I love Colorado & Taos (I used to live in Breckenridge & my cousins live in Taos) but Utah would suit most people the best.

Answer 4

December is a rough month.  It's hit or miss regarding snow.  You want to go somewhere that has good snowmaking and will most likely be cold enough to make snow.  I recomend hitting the east coast:  Sunday River is a snow making beast...in Dec 2006, when all the other ski resorts were too warm to make snow, they had the guns a blazing.  There were quite a few races moved to the River that winter (until we got pounded in late Feb).  Last winter was unbelivable:  210", a record.  I ran into quite a few folks from Texas, New Orleans, Florida, Oklahoma...all of them said they preferred Sunday river to skiing in Colorado, as the crowds were far less and they knew they'd have snow to ski on.  

So long as you avoid the holidays, it can be quite reasonable to ski there, especially mid week:  they ran $59 pp (double occupancy) ski and stay packages mid week.  Who knows what the price will be next season (everything is shooting up!)

Other alternatives:  Jay in Vermont, Sugarloaf in Maine, I personally hate Killington, but if you don't mind the attitude, K-mart might work as well.

Just a thought.

Answer 5

i like snowboarding better but skiing is essayer

Answer 6

Is NM cheaper?  There are some good resorts there also.

Answer 7

Go to Utah they have the best snow on earth!  I like Brighton it is pretty cheap.  If you are on a huge budget go to wolf mountain its like 30 bucks a day! But colorado is good to.

Answer 8

if i was you i would go to colorado, it kind of depends on your budget you can't go wrong with purgatory or telluride but, powderhorn ski resort is less expensive and still very nice. go with skiing so much better

Answer 9

Colorado or Utah.  New Mexico isnt that great.  Utah's airport is closer to the resorts and you have about 20 to choice from in about 30 miles.  Plus it was the host of the winter olympics.  Utah ski resorts are much cheaper then colorado's for the most part.  They are basically on the same mountain range just different sides.

If you are in a budget Utah will be cheaper then colorado.  If you have all the money in the world.  Colorado has some great resorts.  But long lines.  Ive skiied and boarded them both.  But I would take Utah anyday for price ect.

The US SKI team trains in Utah not Colorado, that might tell you something.  They are based in Park City, Utah.

And snowboarding is harder then skiing for the first 2 days.  After that its tons easier.  Ive been boarding for over 20 years.  d**n im old.

Have fun and break a leg...   Oh bad analogy.  *smile*

*** UPDATE ***

This is just an update if december is hit or miss.  "Americas Open" is always in Utah.  Its the first ski competition of the year.  Its in Novermber.  December is not hit or miss in Utah, many times resorts open before halloween, but almost all of them no matter what are open by thanksgiving.  The other person said they had a record year of 221" of snow.  Woo hoo.  Alta (utah resort) got over 700 inches.  And snowbird is still open and its almost june.  They still have 10 feet of snow.  And its only about a 20-30 minute drive from the airport.  Thats how close it is.  You can stay downtown for cheap in a motel 6 or whatever and a bus goes up all day long.  Check out these sites.  I love Alta its right next to snowbird.  But they dont allow boarding.  If you are learning it doesnt matter, there are plenty of cheaper places like the other person mentioned brighton.  But if you know what you are doing you can take the snowbird tram and ski down all of altas runs.  You just cant get on their lifts.  But you can board or ski all the way back to snowbird.  Take the tram and play all day on altas runs using snowbirds tram.

www.alta.com

www.snowbird.com

Answer 10

Colorado =)

You can stay at my house ^^

Ive Been to Utah, Montana and Alaska and even Vermont one year..

They were all a good time. Just pick one !!!

Utah was the cheapest.

Answer 11

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