Yobeat’s Top 10 Colleges for Snowboarding

shredcollege You should remove your tassle before snowboarding, college boy. Tommy Gesme is a bad example. photo: Danny Kearn

So the Ski Channel put out a list of the top ten schools for skiing and snowboarding and we were going to just reblog it and call it good, because it is one of our most frequently asked questions. But alas, their choices are pretty damn terrible. So, to insure that none of you (who we’re sure also frequent the skichannel.com for some reason) go to Oregon State (3 hours from the mountain) vs Portland State (1 hour and 15 minutes from the mountain) or any other their other bad calls, here’s our list. Warning: academics is not high on our list of requirements, but you’ll get a grade A education in snowboarding. Click on each to see our reasoning or just go through the numbers to read them all (we figure it you’re going to college you can read, but if not, they each have a video too.)

1. University of Utah
2. Plymouth State College
3. University of Nevada- Reno
4. University of Vermont
5. Montana State University
6. Western Washington University
7. UC Boulder
8. Portland State University
9. Middlebury College
10. UMN- Duluth

  1. Jim Lahey

    You can be retarded and get into plumouth all you need is to not fail the SAT

  2. gravedi99er

    i failed the SATs and got in

  3. karnkarn

    Could of given this article a little bit more effort.

  4. upstatemike.

    very accurate statement about bolton. i only go there at night and while i’m half in the bag…and it is always awesome.

    ps…go to community college and save yourself the 20 years of debt!

  5. Icy

    I’ve been waiting a long time for the Snow Bowl to be mentioned on Yobeat, if you’re ever in the area on a powder day there’s no better place to go

  6. Cole Gibson

    Not to mention UVM has sick hills to longboard down and mad kids to sell wax to. Just an all around perfect place.

  7. 2drunk2funkshun

    damn upstatemike is the fucking man

  8. Mike

    Castleton definitely could have held its own place on this list. We have a campus park, about 10 features, flat bars, boxes, hand rails, a wall ride, wooden drop-in, corrugated. The park is lit at night, and we’ve held movie premier’s/after party’s the past 3 seasons with the likes of Darkside, Redbull, Killington, Voleurz, Never Summer. We are 30 min from Killington. 45-50 min to Okemo.

    I won’t blab on, but show us some love Brooke! Plus it would piss off the town folk of Castleton who hate our college, and give ’em one more reason to call us derelicts. They have an ordinance about skating in that town! (gave us the excuse to get a skate park built on campus, but the angry old people still suck)

  9. Dan

    Its Montana State University in Bozeman not UoM

  10. ball bag sam

    St mikes has a pretty big pre season rail jam, and like an obscene amount of money to spend on the club that is free to enter. Yobeat sent us free shit once, so yea it was pretty chill.

  11. LARRY HOOVER

    No NMU?

  12. Donovan

    NMU blows!

  13. Justin's bong

    I would like it be shown in the record that Justin went to UVM… Am I the only one amazed by this

  14. Bruce

    Canada?
    UBC, SFU, UBC-Kelowna, Calgary
    All better than lots of those listed

  15. where is

    #WVUsnowboarding ?

  16. pete richalds

    western state

  17. Daswassup

    Brozeman Mantana

  18. Debaser

    WVU and Pitt kill it too. Lehigh isn’t too far off from Big Boulder either.

  19. O-koon

    App state is a minute drive from App Ski Mtn, honorable mention… and it’s not in the middle of bumfucknowhere like West Virginia.

  20. lol

    Good thing Western State isn’t on the list. Trust me, Californians, it sucks. Don’t come here…

  21. Asdfghjkl

    Colorado Mountain College
    The steamboat springs campus has a snowboard business program, and there’s also a campus in Breck.

  22. YoBoi

    Cortland state in NY a true diamond in the ruff…

  23. NWShred

    I think the list is referring to Oregon State’s Bend campus (30 minutes from Bachelor).

  24. team Harvard

    Sierra Nevada !!! team harvard went there… COCARD… COCARD.

  25. Bill

    What about Westminster? Westminster has a snowboard team and you get a free resort pass. Just as close as the U of U is to the mountains, and there is a shuttle that all of the riders can take up to the mountain.

  26. Jmc

    Try lost trail! Way better than Snowhole!

  27. Keystone Pounder

    You forgot to mention the Flame nightclub in Duluth. That’s where Stephen finds the biggest trannys

  28. Keystone Pounder

    Stephen told me the biggest tranny’s are behind the Flame in Duluth

  29. FIB

    You wont put NMU on the list… you’re too soft

  30. PSC SNOWBOARD CLUB was the reason I went to Plymouth.

  31. Middlebury Snow Bowl

    No lines…ever

  32. blood

    Honestly. Duluth is the place to be. 3 ski hills within 20 minutes of campus. One being Mont Du lac with the fastest tow rope in the Midwest. And the most spots a city could possibly have. Plus on an average winter you’re gonna see snow at least once a week in the later months and snowstorms in April. Plus the women are spoice. If you’re trying to go to a school where you will most definitely board every day and probably film a pretty hammer part, UMD should be #1 or #2 on the list.

  33. live action

    the university of washington at seattle should be at the top of any list

  34. Dosmafia

    For Grad school, I go to Vermont Law School. never been out east, just moved to VT for law school from Tahoe and its pretty sweet. Killington and Sugarbush are real close and have super fun parks!! 25 min to killy, 45min to the bush. shreducation!

  35. Just to refresh, Oregon State is in Corvallis, University of Oregon is in Eugene. There is also Western Oregon University, and Warner Pacific College, which is the closest I believe. But either way go somewhere else. The lift systems are already to crowded here! Thanks!

  36. Dick

    Western State Colorado University, 30 mins from crested butte and 40 from monarch…

  37. Scott

    UofM may not be on here but snowbowls the shit on a pow day, Bozeman does trump however

  38. give the gravedi99er a humpday Kevin Court is the future

  39. curtin

    WOw….. Northern Michigan University should be in the top 5 at leasttt

    sketchy

  40. How could you forget Smuggs?

  41. Assblaster

    Colorado mountain college in steamboat! I’m in the dorms and we
    are 10 minutes away from the resort

  42. Chet

    Psu is 2 hours for big boulder and 7 springs and has a small hill 10mins from campus

  43. Western State Colorado University is wayyy more sophisticated than most of this other junk… YoBeat didn’t do their research. Surprise, surprise…

  44. Massie

    How about Western State Colorado University. Dumb name good school. Crested butte, Telluride, Wolf Creek, Monarch, Silverton and thousands of acres of backcountry at your doorstep. Plus its almost community college cheap. Or it was when I was there.

  45. slamherst

    for the east coast umass amherst is always forgotten. pretty good school ,hour from mt snow and its a huge party school

  46. G

    Westminster College is blocks from the University of Utah and has a snowboard team…?

  47. I-70 blows

    CU Boulder? Yeah fucking right its almost two hours to the resorts

  48. Batwing

    Cal State San Bernardino if you want to ride Bear.

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