Snowboarding in Sunday River

One of the first resorts in the East to welcome 'boarders, Sunday River integrates rather than segregates 'boarders and snowboarding terrain and 'boarders have access to all areas. There are eight playgrounds located throughout the trail system, rather than one big separate park. The resort's steep White Cap mountain is a mecca for 'boarders and The Park on the Startlight run contains multiple ramp jumps, table tops and spines. Sunday River is a good place for 'boarding at night, with the 110m (400 foot) half pipe floodlit and served by an innovative surface lift especially designed for 'boarders use. The resort believes that the combination of its snowmaking power and hi-tec Pipe Dragon grooming equipment gives it the most consistently good half pipe right through the season. The resort has unusually good facilities for new boarders with two more playgrounds at the snow sports learning area at South Ridge. Here the Mini-pipe and Who-Ville are available for aspiring freestylers, with all the tuition support you could hope for. Off the slopes Sunday River is ultra 'boarder-friendly and the facilities around White Cap are absolutely spot on for 'boarders. Big parties develop around theme weeks, weekends and/or competition events such as the Gotta Rock Snow Fest weeks or Mardi Gras weekend. Full rentals and retails are of course also available at the 'Ride On' shop in the South Ridge Centre. New for the 2001/02 season is a superpipe which is 400 feet long and has 16 foot walls.