Snowboarding in Colorado

Colorado snowboarding at Copper Mountain - Copper Mountain, CO
Colorado snowboarding at Copper Mountain
Photo courtesy of the Copper Mountain Resort Association
Snowboarding in Colorado at Buttermilk Mountain - Aspen, CO
Snowboarding in Colorado at Buttermilk Mountain
Snowboarding in Colorado on a bight winter day - Copper Mountain, CO
Snowboarding in Colorado at Copper Mountain
Snowboarding in Colorado at a Vail Mountain terrain park - Vail, CO
Colorado snowboarding at Vail Mountain
Freestyling snowboarding in Colorado on Monarch Mountain
Colorado snowboarding at Monarch Mountain
Photo courtesy of Monarch Mountain/jeffnass.com
Colorado snowboarding at a Winter Park Resort terrain park - Winter Park, CO
Colorado snowboarding at a Winter Park Resort terrain park
Photo courtesy of Winter Park Resort
A practice jump before the ski season starts at Copper Mountain's Woodward at Copper
Woodward at Copper
Courtesy of Woodward at Copper
Snowcat skiing and snowboarding in Colorado with Copper Mountains snowcat tours
Snowcat skiing and boarding at Copper Mountain
Courtesy of Copper Mountain
A Colorado snowcat heads out for a powder skiing day with Vail Powder Guides
Colorado snowcat skiing with Vail Powder Guides
Courtesy of Jenna Bartosz/Vail Powder Guides
A snowcat skiing group gets ready to hit the powder with the San Juan Ski Company near Durango Mountain Resort in the San Juan Mountains
Snowcat skiing with San Juan Ski Company near Durango Mountain Resort
Courtesy of the San Juan Ski Company

Snowboarding in Colorado, once a prime route for teen rebellion in dress and action, today is definitely mainstream. Those teens — both guys and Shred Bettys, as the gals are known — who took up snowboarding in the late '80s and '90s now are riding with their kids.

As with skiing, there are different styles of riding. Free-riding is all-mountain snowboarding on the slopes, in the trees, down the steeps and through the moguls. Freestyle is snowboarding in a pipe or park filled with rails, fun boxes and other features.

Colorado snowboarding parks are designed for specific skill levels, from beginner parks with tiny rails hugging the ground to terrain parks with roller-coaster rails, fun boxes and tabletops for more experienced snowboarders.

Whether you're a first-timer or already comfortable going lip-to-lip in a pipe, there are classes and special clinics for you at Colorado's ski and snowboard resorts. A lot of Colorado resorts offer multiday clinics, so if you're headed to ski country this winter, consider wrapping your vacation dates around a Colorado snowboarding clinic.

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