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Snowboarding Zone - Sunday River, Maine:
Riders Guide - Sunday River is one of the East's finest and best-known resorts in that winter wonderland of Maine with a total of 18 lifts, comprising of 3 Surface, 2 Double Chair, 4 Triple Chairs, 5 Quad Chairs, and 4 Hi Speed Quads that take you up to 128 trails where you can snowboard on their longest run of 15,860 feet atop 155 inches of eastern powder. Their trails are rated 25% for Beginners, 35% for Intermediates, 23% for Advanced, and sit down, take a deep breath and get ready for some really outrageous radical fun since Sunday River is rated 20% for Experts.
Parks and Pipes - Sunday River offers up four separate terrain parks to satisfy everyone from the little kid first strapping on a snowboard to the world-class expert. Whoville on South Ridge is for the kiddies with lots of fun snow features like bank turns, a 10-foot jump, a couple of rollers and some small rails. The South Ridge Jib Park, on Easy Street near the minipipe is for the beginning adult snowboarder as it has a bit bigger rails than Whoville. When you're looking for a great intermediate terrain park your choice is 3D Park on the 3D trail on North Peak. The hits here are bigger, there's a mini mogul course and the rails and flat boxes quite a bit longer for the snowboarder who is an intermediate and wants to work their way up to an advanced level. The experts will skip all of the above and head directly to Rocking Chair Park to tackle the 40-foot jumps, a 48-foot C box and S box, 24-foot connectable boxes, saddle boxes, 30-foot flat-down boxes, rainbow and battleship rails, a wall ride and the whole run ends into a really nice quarterpipe. After all that action you absolutely have to hit the superpipe near the Locke Mountain triple chair. When you want to take on some snowboardcross, The Starlight Park at White Cap is the place to go.
Out of Bounds - Sugarloaf USA is also an amazing resort that is worth checking out when you're in the area, but when you're looking for the hottest wintertime fun in the cold of the North Eastern United States, then you have to place Maine's incredible Sunday River resort at the very top of your list. You can choose from an literally infinite selection of eye-opening and memorable experiences such as hot air ballooning, ice skating, jeeping and off-road driving, cross country skiing, fishing, rock and ice climbing, snowcatting, horseback riding, sledding, and snowmobiling.
Hangout & Hookup - Between Sunday River and Bethel you have your choice of memorable watering holes. Legends at the Summit Hotel is a great place for under 21s, and the Suds Pub has a wild and crazy open mike night called Hoot Nite every Thursday. Two of the favorites for snowboarders have to be the Foggy Goggle Ski Bar which is clearly the hotter of the mountain spots, and the Funky Red Barn which has been voted the Best Pub in Maine! Don't miss the all night action with the fantastic bands at the Matterhorn Ski Bar and see if you can down one of their Glacier Big Bowl drinks, all 48 ounces of it! That's like an alky Big Gulp! The nights really heat up at Thumper's at the Shipyard Brew Haus. When you get through these spots, you can start checking out all the other fun action at Liam's Pub, Pugsley's Pub, Rooster's Roadhouse, Sunday River Brewing Company, The Jolly Drayman, Millbrook Tavern, Loon's Nest, 22 Broad Bar, and Barker Pub.
