Top resorts for super bowl skiing

Photo: Daniel Milchev/Vail Resorts

In celebration of the return of Football and the upcoming NFL Super Bowl LV, we’ve take the time to highlight some of our favorite bowls: the kind you ski down!

Sure, our bowls may not come with record-breaking passes, exhilarating plays and bone-crushing hits, but bowl skiing is epic in its own right. Offering everything from open powder fields to steeps and moguls, bowls are where devoted skiers and snowboarders know they can find blue-chip terrain.

Here are top resorts for super-bowl skiing, i.e. where the bowl skiing is super:

Telluride, CO

Telluride’s Black Iron Bowl is a haven for advanced to expert skiers and riders looking for just about every type of challenge. Revelation Bowl, on the resort’s backside, is a prime venue for intermediate to advanced intermediate skiers looking to test out their powder skills in the wide-open terrain.

Where to Stay: Fairmont Heritage Place, Franz Klammer Lodge

Revelation Bowl, on the resort’s backside, is a prime venue for intermediates to advanced intermediates. | Photo: Telluride Ski Resort

From chutes and drops to steeps and glades, Black Iron Bowl host a range of challenges. | Photo: Telluride Ski Resort

5-star accommodations in Telluride, CO | Photo Credit: Fairmont Heritage Place, Franz Klammer Lodge

Aspen Snowmass, CO

The Highland Bowl at Aspen Highlands is a true treat for those who want to earn their turns and views. From the top of the 12,392-foot peak, which requires a 25- to 45-minute hike, skiers and riders are rewarded with incredible views of the famous 14,000-foot Maroon Bells and a collection of steeps pitches and glades.

The hike-to Highland Bowl at Aspen Highlands is true treat for those who want to earn their turns and views. | Photo: Aspen Snowmass

The views of the 14,000-foot Maroon Bells and Pyramid Peak from the top of Highland Bowls are worth the 25-45-minute hike. | Photo: Aspen Snowmass

Big Sky Resort, MT

From the top of 11,166-foot Lone Peak, experts have three aspects to challenge themselves on: north, south, and west. Each of the six bowls comes with its own unique features, ranging from tight, technical chutes and steeps that funnel into hero powder fields to see-forever snowbound slopes.

Stillwater and Deepwater Bowls are the rewards plucky skiers and riders get from conquering the chutes above. | Photo: Big Sky Resort

From the top of 11,166-foot Lone Peak, experts have three aspects to challenge themselves on: north, south and west. | Photo: Big Sky Resort

Breckenridge, CO

Breck’s Peak 6, 7 and 8 provide experts with the lion’s share of bowl options, ranging from lift-accessed or hike-to double-black and extreme-rated steeps. However, intermediates can enjoy blue-rated, bowl-style skiing from the new Peak 6.

Breck’s Peak 6, 7 and 8 provide experts with bowl options, ranging from lift-accessed or hike-to double-black and extreme-rated steeps. | Photo: Breckenridge Ski Resort

Intermediates can begin testing out bowl skiing on Peak 6’s forgiving powderbound slopes. | Photo: Breckenridge Ski Resort

Copper Mountain, CO

The four above treeline double-black-diamond bowls at Copper Mountain round out the resort’s varied terrain offerings. Families and groups with challenge seekers have an exhilarating array of steep powder runs to choose from in Copper Bowl, Union Bowl, Spaulding Bowl and Resolution Bowl.

Photo: Copper Mountain

Located on the backside of the resort, Copper Bowl features lightly spaced glades and open powder slopes. | Photo: Copper Mountain

Jackson Hole, WY

Jackson Hole is renowned for its steep, technical skiing, but it also has a fair share of open bowl skiing in its six expert bowls. Advanced skiers will enjoy the snowfields of Rendezvous Bowl, Cheyenne Bowl, and Bernie’s Bowl, while the more extreme-minded will appreciate the pucker-worthy challenges in Casper Bowl.

Jackson Hole has a fair share of open bowl skiing in its six expert bowls. | Photo: JHMR

Ideal for advanced skiers or riders, Rendezvous Bowl, Cheyenne Bowl and Bernie’s Bowl provide expansive slopes. While, Casper Bowl is challenge-seeker’s delight. | Photo: JHMR

Keystone, CO

Offering five hike-to and snowcat-accessed bowls, Keystone is the perfect place for advanced intermediates to test their bowl-skiing or -riding mettle.

Keystone’s five hike-to and snowcat-accessed bowls, that are rated black diamond, are the perfect playground for the less initiated to test their mettle. | Photo: Jack Affleck/Keystone

To experience the snowcat, advanced reservations are required and the cost is $10. | Photo: Jack Affleck/Keystone

Park City Mountain Resort, UT

With the addition of Canyons, Park City Mountain Resort now boasts 10 bowls, which offer an array of double-black steeps and powder fields along the upper reaches of this massive resort.

The lift-accessed Jupiter Bowl at Park City Mountain Resort features open terrain and a collection of steeps and glades. | Photo: PCMR

Due to the resort’s expansive, Park City Mountain Resort now boasts 10 bowls. | Photo: PCMR

Revelstoke, B.C.

Famed in hardcore skiing and snowboarding circles, the hike-to North Bowl rewards with often untracked, plentiful powder and double-black terrain. Technical entrances into the bowl, long vertical descent and plenty of steeps and options to drop cliffs make the North Bowl a true challenge.

North Bowl is one of the most challenging bowls in North America. | Photo: Ian Houghton/RMR

Ample powder makes the North Bowl even sweeter for experts. | Photo: Ian Houghton/RMR

Vail, CO

Spanning roughly 3,000 acres, Vail’s seven world-famous Back Bowls are some of the most scenic and easily the most popular bowls in the world. Whether you’re cruising around the intermediate-friendly Game Creek Bowl or exploring the remote Outer Mongolia Bowl, skiing the Back Bowls on a bluebird powder day is a coveted experience.

Vail’s seven world-famous Back Bowls are some of the most scenic and easily the most popular bowls in the world. | Photo: Vail Resorts

Hitting the Back Bowls on a bluebird powder day is a bucket-list experience. | Photo: Vail Resorst

Whistler Blackcomb, B.C.

For a variety of high-alpine, scenic bowl skiing, Whistler Blackcomb is a top pick. Whistler Mountain’s seven bowls range in terrain type from intermediate to expert. Blackcomb Mountain also has its share of bowl skiing in Jersey Cream Bowl and Lakeside Bowl.

Whistler Blackcomb has an incredible amount of high-alpine bowl skiing. | Photo: Whistler Blackcomb

Whistler Mountain has seven bowls that accommodate intermediates through experts. | Photo: Whistler Blackcomb

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