Best all around Utah ski resort?

i would have to say brighton but if your going to utah tou might as well just ski some killer pow so then snowbird or alta
 
Don't both Brighton and Snowbird get around 500 inches usually? Snowbird doesn't have a park at all though ami right?
 
Brighton is my fav resort for nice big mountain terrain and they have some fun boxes in the park. Even the greens have some fun shit to jib in the trees. For crowd pleasing though I'd say canyons. With the exception of this season, everyone loves the canyons. But if you wanna try something totally different, bear mt, Cali....this week. It's like waterskiing on snow skis. Lol.
 
i would say canyons. their park is really fun and super mellow (not small) and you can still ski really deep stuff off 9990.
 
brighton > canyons

brighton has way better terrain and a lot more of the good terrain too. Canyons park is a joke this year, maybe two years ago i might have put these two resorts even for park, but brightons park is superior. Brightons park is mostly rails, but theyre probably the best rails you can find in utah, theyre so fun and there are so many you can hit in one run. Id say go to brighton.
 
Brighton is flat as fuck. (hate coming my way) I havent explored the side country, but I hear its plentiful, so if thats your ticket im sure its gonna be sick.

Im not gonna sit here and blow smoke that the canyons is gods gift to skiing, its not. But in terms of sheer variety it blows brighton out of the water. let me spoil brighton, flat. o theres little cliffs every so often as well. Its also not hard at all if youre willing to sacrifice some vert, gnar terrain, etc to get freshies a week after it snows at canyons.

again speaking purely in bounds, havent explored OB at brighton, have explored some OB at canyons.

canyons lift system is a pain in the ass, fair criticism. But once youre up on the mtn (it will take a while) and away from Saddleback or Tombstone, you will not wait in a lift line, doesnt matter if its christmas break or presidents day.

either way, im sure youll have a blast!
 
You're saying brighton is flat but canyons isn't... -____-

brighton has way more terrain than canyons, 9990 is the only decent lift at canyons and to get anything resembling of the cottonwood canyons you have to hike out of bounds. Milly bowl has plenty of vert, its a fast run so yeah its not as long as some runs at snowbird, but great western has a good amount of vert and if you like hitting cliffs brighton has millions of cliffs. OB brighton from milly bowl (marys bowl) has a large variety of terrain from cliffs, pillows, chutes and bowls. Off of great western into OB is another huge bowl. Saying that canyons has more to offer skiing wise is just straight up wrong.
 
i didnt say canyons wasnt flat. (at least i dont think i did :) I merely said that if youre not going for LCC Gnar then might as well take 4 times the acreage at Canyons over Brighton.

PS ide rather ski 99 over milly any pow day and every pow day. Western is the worlds longest traverse only to ski a couple hundred feet of mid angle trees. snake creek, you have the face under the lift, then boring. crest, 1 decent pitch then, boring. I will say its gonna be deeper at brighton.
 
Brighton. You can get a top-to bottom park run in in almost no time, since there are hardly ever very bad lift lines, and the terrain is incredible. It's not your average afterbang switchup steezer's atmosphere and setup. You'll probably get hated on from the snowboarders if that's what you're into. Behind your back, not to your face like at Bear. Who really cares though anyway? It's a really fun place. I recommend Brighton over everywhere else in Utah I've been.

Solitude is reallllly nice on a pow day though.
 
holy hell you really haven't spent any time at brighton. I had both a canyons and a brighton pass last year, and brighton absolutely blew it out of the water, no argument for me. First off, there's just way more snow. Who wants to ski 2-4 when you could be skiing 6-8. To say that all Western has is a few low angled trees is a joke. There is hidden, main bowl off western, and all of the trees above snake (with plenty of cliffs), not to add in the tons of aspens that can be a blast. Snake is MONEY, not just under the lift. Little alaska, the chutes off to the right and the trees/cliffs off to the left. Crest is not the best, but you can find some pillow lines just OB, and pioneer has had some of the best runs of my life (just a short hike) and some of the best booter spots in Utah. Then you get to milly, which is just straight money. There is something great about dropping a cliff, skiing a bowl, dropping a cliff, dropping a cliff, dropping a cliff.. all on the same run. Brighton is the playground of utah resorts, its not the tallest, biggest, or gnarliest, but goddamnit its just plain fun. Every single person runs straight to 9990 on any pow day, and it gets tracked in 2 runs. Also, it has the same exact sort of run out as what you were complaining about western, without all the deep. Canyons park really isnt any better than brightons this year like Eheath said anyways. Sorry for the book, but Brighton>>>Canyons
 
I mean, its never that bad, like CO can get. On a pow day, you'll hit lines at almost any resort and on weekends you'll also hit lines at any resort.
 
I'll be at Mt High next week, screw Bear! hahah.

Brighton is for sure the best all-around resort for snow, crowds, terrain, price of pass and the park.
 
Brightom Brighton Brighton Brighton. It's such a cool place. There are little poppers of low and natural airs all over the mountain, and some really gnar terrain right of the lifts. Not to mention the parks I already touched on. It's a real cool place. Definitely to there.
 
Haha. While your bullshittin though, if you know where to go at deer, there's some suck ridin to be had in them trees. Jus gotta know where to go is all.
 
I went to Brighton, Snowbird, and Alta a couple years ago and they are all sick. Snowbirds park sucked but i wasnt there to ski park at all so it was ill. Alta was insane and Brighton was also sick.
 
Park City because this is newschoolers and they have a sweet park as well as some other good lines. alta and the bird for pow of course
 
I politely disagree with your interpretation of "newschoolers". Riding switch pow is newschool. Huckin cliffs throwing corks is newschool. Twin tips are newschool. Contrary to the belief of some, newschool encompasses far more than just the park. With that said, if I were strictly moving to Utah to progress my park skills, then yes. You are absolutely right by saying park city. Who's got the best park in Utah is debatable but if you wanna ride with pros and be on the cutting edge of all things park then P-city is def the place to be. N
 
now your just lying... ive been there christmas break and it was a zoo. not huge lines because they do get spread out but there definitely are 15 minute lines at the canyons during christmas break. Go to alta get creative and jump off of shit..
 
I stayed with my cousin in Alta last season for a little over a week and went to Brighton some. I would say Brighton is better than PC, It has some good pow and bc access as well as a great rail park and pretty good jump park. Last year Brighton had a great pipe too! All the mtns are like 40 min apart so it is great. (closest mtn to me in MA is 20+ min away and closest good one is 40 min)

Have Fun where ever you go!
 
youre cherry picking. i qualified that statement with "up on the mtn away from saddleback and tombstone"

ive waited in lift lines too, took me 45min to make it up to red pine one day cause everything was on wind delay.

ive also waited in the 99 line for it to open, but after the initial rush. (read one lap) no lines.

im not hard core enough to hang with the brah's in LCC, ill stick to being the best god damn skier on the mtn at canyons.

trolololo

but im probably gonna spring for a sillytude pass next year anyway.
 
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