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Snow Creek Serves A Wide Audience

Oct 28, 2008 Mike Terrell, Regional Editor     Comments (2)

Snow Creek offers good skiing and riding for snow-starved Kansans and Missourians. Snow Creek offers good skiing and riding for snow-starved Kansans and Missourians.

You don't have a lot of snowsports choices if you live in Kansas City or St. Joseph, Mo. But nearby Snow Creek helps fill that void. Actually, for this region of the Heartland, it fills that void quite nicely.  In fact, Dorothy, you may not feel like you're in Kansas anymore.

Snow Creek delivers a lot of fun on snow that normally snow-starved Kansans and Missourians would have to drive hours to find, with its 300-foot vertical, a dozen or so runs, two triple chairs, a double chair, the Rattlesnake Terrain Park, and Tornado Alley Tubing Park.  With an arsenal of snowguns that can blanket the slopes quickly and keep it fresh all winter long, the Creek's normal season is about three months; late December through mid-March.  Last season they were open 84 days.

A daily lift ticket will run $37 this season, but, with lots of weekday specials, night skiing and riding, and Midnight Madness sessions that run to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, there's plenty of opportunity to lower the cost.  Tubing rates are $22 for two hours.  Wednesday and Thursday nights you pay the same rate, but you get four hours instead of two.

Historic Weston, less than five miles away, offers several lodging choices including some, beautiful, old B&Bs, for those who might want to spend a weekend enjoying the slopes.  There are over 1,000 rooms available within a half-hour drive.

 

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  • by rmarquis Feb 13, 2009
    I fully agree with the comment previously made. This place also may "Serve A Wide Audience" but their customer service is also poor. They treat their customers poorly because they think people will come there regardless. Go to Colorado or make a trip somewhere a little further, it will be more worth your money.
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  • by lmabadie Jan 7, 2009
    Snowcreek has been consistently increasing their prices and limiting the number of pass options. It used to be a decent option for the Winter time in the midwest, but less and less every year wirth their increased rates.
    This place is mainly suitable for somebody that wants to learn to ski or snowboard prior to a real ski experience in a real mountain or for die hard snowboarders that may want ot use the (very limited) terrain park. Due to the bad policies in pass options they get large crowds during prime time on weekends.
    For families or larger groups, it is getting so expensive that you are better off making a trip to Colorado. Just in a weekend there you will make more progress there than in a complete season in SnowCreek.
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