Moving to Wisconsin

CypressGrove

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I'm moving to wisconsin from New York. Im wondering what are the best ski centers around Milwaukee? What is the snow/terrain like and ticket/season pass prices? I looked at a couple online and it doesnt look like much elevation... I like em steep! Any info would be awesome thanks!
 
sunburst is about 50 mins from milwaukee. tyrol basin is about 2hours as well as cascade. there is also alpine valley don't know how long of a drive it is but it isn't that far.
 
im an optimist. and i have a sweet job. is it really worse than east coast ice? ive been out west a few times, but only in the summer. still had a snowball fight in july!! 6 weeks off and go wherever.
 
go to the up! mt bohemia is prob the closest to mig mountain (like) skiing you can get around here. But for near milwaukee sunburst will probably be your best bet otherwise alpine has the most vertical within a 45 min drive they both have good parks too, alpines seems bigger tho
 
I was just joking.. Kind of..

Nah if you have a good attitude and can have fun, then it's fun, just don't have high expectations the first day you get out there..
 
wait, i confused, tho it my just be that im kinda stupid but are you saying ur going out west or coming here or what?
 
Sunburst is 45 minutes from milwaukee, pretty decent park, lots of boarders and gets rutted out easily, tons of boxes and decent jumps

Tyrol is an Hour and 45 minutes away and has a sick park, tons of rails, good jumps, doesnt get rutted out to much it seems

Cascade is about an Hour and 45 also, nice rail park, crappy jumps at least right now, used to be so sick but has really fallen off

those are your best 3 i would say around the Milwaukee area.

Alpine is also about 45 away and is decent but is very expensive and has hundreds of gapers running through the park at any moment
 
Im moving to Milwaukee in a few weeks, but if the mountains there are just mole hills, i'll headwest for my off time in jan-feb. which brings me to my next question. What are the best bars in Milwaukee?
 
Theres so many dude, Water ST. is a good bet im not 21 yet so I dont know specifics but theres a great bar scene in Milwaukee.

I moved to Milwaukee from Mass so i know what your moves like. Big Transistion for sure, people are super chill but that will get on your nerves I bet coming from the east. Its so nice after awhile though... Elevation blows but when your lapping a park it doesnt matter really. Theres just no like "real" skiing you can have fun though. We are getting an Ill ski scene here in Milwaukee so get stoked.

hit us up when your here.
 
thats cool. I had to live in Florida for for 2 years so anywhere north can't be nearly as bad. I'm lookin foward to it. I'm loadin the uhaul and hittin the road and not lookin back. New York is loosing its appeal fast.
 
sunburst= best in hr range of milwaukee

alpine vally= gapers

cascade= worst park ive ever seen. used to be good

highlands of olympia= trash literaly

tyrol= amazing bt too far

ur screwed in wisco

 
cascade at least maintains their park and has good rails at least, wilmot is also in the picture but it has more gapers than all the other places combined, tho the park is deac just not maintained at all
 
yay thats me!!

but i work there and its on the way home from school. We are doing our best, and hope to have at least half the hill all park by end of feb. As of now tho... i have no idea why people pay to ski there
 
yes, the ice here really is as bad as out east....the closest to big mountain skiing you'll get is possibly granite peak (700' vertical) and a couple hours from milwaukee...if your willing to travel farther, the U.P. has quite a few decent resorts, and possibly the best would be in Minnesota, lutsen mountain, which is actually a resort of 4 mountains, no idea what the park is like, but i went their when i was younger and it was pretty nice....
 
Theres no terrain, the parks are not kept very well, its always icy, welcome to wisconsin

you're best bet for steep stuff is driving up to upper michigan, at mt. bohemia and then you'll find some dece skiing, expect a 8 hr drive

cascade's your best bet for park, Alpines' close but exspensive for how shitty it is unless you know ppl u can get in free
 
hav u been to cascade in the last 3 yrs?

their park rly suks now. thats why the badger state games moved to granite peak
 
Cascade is seriously that bad this year? I'm from Green Bay and usually go there once a year. I've been going for about 3 years and I can say it has been progressively worse, but it was never AWFUL. Did the park manager quit or get fired or something? He seemed pretty on it last I talked to him in early 2008.
 
I havent been this year, but besides taking the half pipe away it was good last year, it doesnt usaully get good til feb, march, begging through jan it blows tho
 
The original park manager was fired a few years ago. Then they had a new one from Perfect North when they were investing in cascade, the deal fell through or something ,and he's back in indiana. Cascade doesnt have anyone who knows how to build big park jumps and thats part of the reason its not on point this year. The new guys are friends of mine and they're trying pretty damn hard. They get NO, NONE, ZILCH cat time, litterly everything in the rail park is done by hand or with a bobcat. No one is getting any answers on plans for the future or why cascade made the choices it has this year.
 
From what I hear the jump should be decent... like 45 ish feet? I'm not really sure. jblaski is the man to answer these kinds of questions.
 
have you been to alpine this year? the park gets walked thru at least twice an hour by park crew. go on tuesdays when its 2 tickets fr the price of one. and it gets groomed every single night on top of what the park crew does during the day.
 
Yo! I havent been on in awhile, but the drive out here was almost perfect. took about 16 hours. So far im diggin Milwaukee, gonna check out summerfest friday i guess. hopefully weather is alright. been to water st only a couple times. got set up in greenfield, some cool little bars around. workin my ass off and waitin for winter, but lovin summer.
 
i've never experienced a winter out west but midwest winters are still really fun
midwest isn't that bad, it gets icy sometimes but so do a lot of parks. our hills are smaller but tyrol has a pretty nice park and you can lap it pretty quick which is nice. im already soooo stoked for winter, only like....3 months left!
 
if you don't like milwaukee to begin with it will grow on you and you will like it. but sounds liek you like it already. the only thing is that there are no summer setups around here(PLEASE correct me if I am wrong)
 
i think most areas in WI have night skiing because all of them are so small. tyrol, devils head, and cascade (Madison area) all have night skiing-im sure all milwaukee areas have night skiing too
 
no state has better bars, overall, than wisconsin. i've never been to a bad bar there, just different styles. dive bars to hot dance clubs, you can find them all within walking distance of eachother. i grew up in a town of about 4500 people and there were something like 19 bars when i turned 21. that is one bar for every two hundred or so people without taking into account their age.

the entire city of milwaukee was founded on beer. what better reason for a city can there be?

nobody parties like sconnie kids, i don't care who they are or where they are from. sure there may be individuals that can rage pretty hard, and other places have their big spring break events, but as a generality, wisconsin is the rowdiest party state year round, hands down.

it almost makes up for the ski areas. almost. growing up at a place there (wilmot for example) can be a lot of fun, but if you are moving there and have experienced the rockies or other similar places, you will fell underwhelmed. it is, however, a great place to have a lot of fun on the hill, and you don't really have to be sober at all to handle anything thrown at you.
 
i hit up summerfest last week, was pretty chill. water st. on the way was a blast, and again on the way back. im lovin the scene, wish there was more metal instead of country lol.
 
Id take FL in the summer any day over Wisco. But its the whole no snow thing that get me. Maybe Ill do the opposite of all the old people. Move north in the winters, and migrate south in the summers.
 
been here for over a year. still kinda diggin it. had a shit season. need to find good, cheap weed for a change. love dtown and all my little bars. theres a lot of fat chicks.
 
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