the park is really bad... the extremes on the other hand are really sick. If you are a park skier, or that's what you are most interested, CB is not the place to go. If you are a big mountain skier, and big mountain is what you want ski and compete in, Crested Butte is sick and the Crested Butte Academy is a great place to be. If you are a park skier and want to go to CBA, they travel a ton and train a lot at keystone/breck/copper etc.