Copper Mountain's Summer Skiing Hike Park To Open Next Month

Copper Mountain, Colorado's Woodward Copper summer hike park will return for another summer on June 7th, offering freestyle skiers and snowboarders a snow-laden reprieve from the heat with various jibs and rails.

The park's tickets cost $25. It will be open Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. as long as conditions allow.

Copper Mountain farms snow from surrounding trails and its superpipe to construct the park.

A representative from Copper Mountain told POWDER via email that its park crew, which constructs the separate, four-acre Woodward Summer Camp on-mountain summer terrain park each year, is "very experienced" at creating skiable surfaces that survive the warmer months.

The representative noted Copper Mountain is "optimistic" that the hike park will remain open throughout the resort's summer season—which concludes on September 8th—but "it's too early to say" if the weather will cooperate with those plans. Last summer, the hike park stayed open until mid-August.

The hike park will be located at Copper's Center Village between the bottom terminals of the American Eagle and American Flyer chairlifts.

Copper Mountain ended its winter operations on May 12th after a season extension. The resort's official start date for summer operations, including hiking, mountain biking, and scenic lift rides, is June 21st.

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