A terrain park is an outdoor area that contains jumps and half-pipes that allow snowboarders and skiers to do tricks.

Jumps in terrain parks can range from five feet to ninety feet, although terrain parks vary from resort to resort. They are host to various rails and boxes on which users grind (also called jibbing). These rails and boxes have many different shapes and sizes: from straight, sloped, curved, and kinked. Creativity is very prevalent in the construction of the most successful and prestigious parks and many resorts go as far as to hire professional terrain park builders to help attract popularity.

Terrain

Jibs

rails, walls, and boxes that can be ground, buttered, or tricked off of

Stepup Jumps

a jump in which the landing is higher than the takeoff

Stepdown Jumps

a jump in which the landing is lower than the takeoff

Tabletop Jumps

a jump that looks somewhat like a table or trapezoid in which you take off of a lip, clear a flat part in the air, and then land on a downslope

Gap

a jump that has a large gap in between the take off and landing

Hip jump

a jump in which the landing is on the side of the take off

Spine

a jump, similar to a Hip Jump, in which the landing is on either side of the take off

Quarter Pipe

a half pipe with one side on either side of the run. sometimes with a hip jump on the side.

Snowboarding