Legal, free rail park in Denver! (Ruby Hill Rail Yard)

[turbo_penguin]

Winter Park Resort and Denver Parks and Recreation have partnered to turn a famous denver sledding hill into a free, open to the public rail park. Ruby Hill Rail Yard opening day (Saturday Jan. 20th) and was quite epic and alhough there were approx. 6 skiers and 85 snowboarders, we held our own and had a great session.

The park (which contains 6 boxes of varing widths and lengths) will be open from 5am until 11pm daily until all the snow melts. No one really knows how long this will be, but the base is about 3 feet of man-made and it's a north-east facing aspect so hopefully it'll last a while. The park is perfect for learning new rail tricks, and you don't have to spend hours dealing with I-70 headaches just to hike a rail.

I am a volunteer for this project and will be there every saturday raking, shoveling and sessioning. Show up and say hey. Ruby Hill is on W. Florida just west of S. Platte river drive.

for more info: http://www.skiwinterpark.com/rubyhill

Pictures soon.

 

[turbo_penguin]

sorry there's no action shots, i forgot my camera.

thanks to Bob Holme for the picture.

 

[twintipteles]

seems cool, but kinda lame that it's just six different flat boxes.

 

[Ahmets_Brother]

thats cool

 

[turbo_penguin]

sorry bout that last one, hopefully this one is better

 

[BFFset.]

like the rail gardens in slc that is a bunch of urbans that no one cares if you hit

 

[Abes2009]

yeah there should be some rails and different styles like flat downs, or c boxes and stuff like that. I'll never go cause i live in CT, but thats sick

 

[BkCountrySkrMO2]

only boxs, but yea thats practically orgasmic, i wish my state was that cool, i pay $74 to hike rails

 

[chapz]

thats so sick

 

[turbo_penguin]

2 of the boxes are flat/down (2nd and 3rd from right), with the flat part being about 6 feet long, then the down part being longer, not that you could tell from my picture failure...

and yea, there's no single barrel down/flat/down/flat/down. they just wanted a basic setup for the general public, and had quite a limited hill size to work with also. keep in mind this is almost downtown, in a major urban area, with over a million people living within 30-40 minutes away.

 

[a.jamieson]

looks dope

 

[Kev]

great idea. I would be their everyday if i had something like that in my neighborhood.

 

[eastAR5]

im praying boston will agree to do the same

 

[boobie]

thats pretty friggin sick i wish i had something like that around me

 

[turbo_penguin]

also... I looked for a Denver cult but couldn't find one, so I started one. If you live in Denver, tell me and you're in.

 

[Lineskiah11]

thats sick i wish i lived around there

 

[unchyll]

thats dope i would go there like everyday after school

 

[Bumbleton]

I got to get out to that, it looks sick

 

[akerbacker]

that is sooooo sick.

 

[4ReeL_]

damn i might just go tonight

 

[Piste.Off]

cant wait im going tomorrow

 

[jp_draves]

lucky

 

[4frntSkier]

thats ill

 

[thejackal1177]

sick idea but damn how many downish box's do they neeed

 

[NWFlow]

a lot. it's free so it'll get crowded i assume.

that is a really, really good idea.

 

[BennyB]

thats so dope.

 

[Pigletpen]

that

 

[Canuker]

so sik, i wish i had soething like that around my place

 

[Black-Bandanna]

Whoa, thats pretty dank.

 

[K_C]

thats such a good idea, i wish i had that!!!

 

[corkythewhale]

we talk about making are local tubing hill a little rail yard i wish they would but they are all douches

 

[brennanmidwest]

thats so sick i was goin to Winter Park for spring break and would totally be down for hittin that... but i broke my fuckin fibula last week

 

[cofreeskier]

they better put in some rails

 

[K.C.Deane]

that is RECOCKULOUS.