{"id":2449448,"date":"2019-10-02T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/woodward-copper-reimagines-its-terrain-parks\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T05:12:00","slug":"woodward-copper-reimagines-its-terrain-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/woodward-copper-reimagines-its-terrain-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward Copper reimagines its terrain parks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Woodward Copper summer camp skier eyes a landing mid-flip while riding through the Pipeline Park on Wednesday, June 12, at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/strong>
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COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 Woodward Copper on Monday announced a reimagining of its winter skiing and snowboarding terrain at Copper Mountain Resort.<\/p>\n

Woodward Mountain Park at Copper will be a network of featured terrain zones that \u201ctogether offer a balanced variety of exciting on-mountain experiences for all ages and abilities,\u201d according to Woodward representatives.<\/p>\n

The Mountain Park\u2019s zones \u2014 which dot terrain from Center to West villages \u2014 will range in accessibility, difficulty and offerings. The zones will range \u201cfrom learning zones, large freestyle zones and everything in between,\u201d according to Woodward.<\/p>\n

That includes two zones inspired by U.S. pro snowboarders Danny Davis and Red Gerard.<\/p>\n

Red\u2019s Backyard<\/p>\n

In the announcement, Woodward officials detailed the new terrain park zone inspired by Gerard, an Olympic gold medalist from Silverthorne.<\/p>\n

Gerard, 19, grew up snowboarding with his free-riding family and friends on a homemade rope tow on a slope at their Summit County home. He won an Olympic gold medal in slopestyle in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.<\/p>\n

Copper\u2019s new Red\u2019s Backyard terrain zone, a short hike from Center Village, will pay homage to the actual backyard with rails of varying difficulty in a hike-to-jib format.<\/p>\n

Woodward Peace Park<\/p>\n

The Woodward Peace Park, which was announced in March, is scheduled to open in late 2019, depending on conditions.<\/p>\n

The park concept comes from Davis \u2014 a Grand Prix, X Games and Dew Tour champion \u2014 who first created Peace Park years ago as a ride along and hang-out session with his pro snowboarder friends and peers.<\/p>\n

That all changed when Davis partnered with Woodward in January for the new Woodward Peace Parks at Boreal Mountain Resort in California and Killington Ski Resort in Vermont. This winter will be the first year for Woodward Peace Park at Copper.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Danny created Peace Park in 2011, he believed that people who could freely and creatively express themselves doing what they love in the outdoors were as close to achieving peace as possible, hence the name Peace Park,\u201d according to Woodward.<\/p>\n

\u201cWoodward Peace Park is a unique, ever-evolving terrain park designed to maximize creativity, organic flow and progression with a focus on fun for shredders of all ages,\u201d the announcement continued.<\/p>\n

Company officials also said Woodward Peace Park will \u201ctranscend\u201d standard slopestyle and halfpipes with more flow, transition, room to breathe and options for creative expression.<\/p>\n

The parks will be built for intermediate and advanced riders and will be accessible to skiers and snowboarders off the Woodward Express Quad, the new name for the Union Creek Quad, out of West Village.<\/p>\n

More zones<\/p>\n

Woodward officials also announced several other zones and zone types, including Woodward Family Cross, which will be an ideal \u201cnext level up\u201d from groomers and will be specially built to ski and ride as if a natural terrain gully is enhanced with moderate shaping.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find a fun and flowing course with banked turns and rollers that use as much of the natural terrain as possible,\u201d according to the announcement. \u201cFeatures are almost all made of only snow \u2014 with the possibility of finding just a couple jibs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodward Family Cross will be accessible from the top of American Flyer off the High Point run.<\/p>\n

Woodward Mountain Park also will feature zones devoted to skiers and snowboarders of varying ability levels. At the Green Acres learning area in Center Village, Woodward will have a Start Park for first-timers. There also will be three progression parks: the Koko\u2019s and Dino Ridge progression parks off the Kokomo Express in West Village and a progression park at Green Acres.<\/p>\n

Woodward officials also announced the company will incorporate its preexisting Central Park terrain park as the largest zone in Copper\u2019s Woodward Mountain Park, accessed via the Woodward Express Quad. The nearby Pipe Dream pipe accessed by the same lift will be part of Copper\u2019s Woodward Mountain Park, as will the 22-foot superpipe near the Center Village base.<\/p>\n

The superpipe will host the world\u2019s best halfpipe skiers and snowboarders at December\u2019s Toyota U.S. Grand Prix and February\u2019s Dew Tour, which is at Copper for the first time after more than a decade at Breckenridge Ski Resort.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Woodward Copper summer camp skier eyes a landing mid-flip while riding through the Pipeline Park on Wednesday, June 12, at Copper Mountain Resort.Summit Daily file COPPER MOUNTAIN RESORT \u2014 Woodward Copper on Monday announced a reimagining of its winter skiing and snowboarding terrain at Copper Mountain Resort. Woodward Mountain Park at Copper will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2449448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 14:29:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}