The following resorts listed were ranked as the United States top three resorts for snowboarding. Click on the links to visit each resort's website.
Big Sky-If you want skiing that's uncluttered, scenic, and laid-back, then Big Sky's your place. A big turnout in this 3,812-acre resort is around 4,000 people a day. The lines here are ridiculously short, if they exist at all, and Big Sky has consistently worked to keep lift capacity higher than the demand.
A boarder stands at the top of one of Big Sky Resort's trails.
Crested Butte- Long known as one of the friendliest and most charming town in the Rockies, Crested Butte has a way of making any outdoor activity unsurpassable. Over 100 years of rich history and diverse terrain, ranging from pancake-flat field to Everest-steep inclines, have afforded this little mountain town a top-notch reputation for skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and any other outdoor sport you can think of. Slopes include: 2,775-foot vertical drop (3,062-foot drop, including hike-to terrain), 121 trails, 1,125 acres, three high-speed quads, three triples, three doubles, two surface lifts, two Magic Carpets, and a snowboard park
Jackson Hole- Jackson's ten lifts and eight-person gondola service 2,500 acres of skiing on two neighboring mountains. An additional 3,000 acres of unpatroled backcountry terrain in the Bridger Teton National Forest and Grand Teton National Park were opened recently. Excluding the backcountry, 10% of Jackson's terrain is beginner, 40% intermediate and 50% expert. There are 22 miles of groomed trails, the longest of which is a 7.2-mile traverse of mixed terrain from the 10,450-foot summit of Rendezvous Mountain. Jackson recently unveiled a huge base lodge expansion, and at the end of the summer 2006, the famous tram was retired, but it'll be back, bigger, better, and faster than ever, in the next few years.