The Best All-Mountain Snowboards of 2024-2025

In part, we can thank the construction and sandwich of materials, including the wood core and Biax fiberglass laminate. The latter has a soft torsional flex that’s forgiving rather than snappy.

That symmetrical nose, tail, and overall shape provide a balanced feel, which lends itself to learning to ride switch. Catching an edge with this board isn’t easy to do, given the convex base hovers its metal edges above the snow and there’s a nonaggressive bevel.

The Stylus Flat Top Snowboard is a versatile board that can suit a wide range of riders. The price tag isn’t shabby, either.

Riders who gravitate toward the park will appreciate this board’s playful tendencies. Jibbing, hucking, and pressing are all well within the Element’s capabilities. When it comes time to zip down the groomers, the lightning-fast sintered base will have you flying past your buddies.

Because this board is a bit more flexible than others on this list, it’s relatively maneuverable and beginner-friendly. It chatters a bit at high speeds but ultimately finds a nice balance between speed and carving ability.

Beginners can view this board as the next step in their progression toward more aggressive riding, while advanced snowboarders may find it enjoyably playful and effortless to ride. The Element Camber also includes Arbor’s Grip-Tech tri-radial sidecut. For all mountain riders of all abilities seeking an unbeatable value, the Element Camber is the way to go.

This board handles wild variability like a pro. The twin-shaped design features a trademarked technology called Magne-Traction. The board’s edges are wavy instead of straight, increasing hold, especially on tough surfaces.

With an asymmetric design — meaning, there’s a deeper heelside sidecut — the shape helped balance transitions. We experienced zero wobbles in wide carves, on quick turns, or through ice chunks. It was secure on hard roller landings.

Albeit sturdy, the hybrid shape (called C2x) is still flexible and playful. The Ladies Choice has rocker between the feet, camber beneath the feet, and rocker on the ends. For increased control this season, we adjusted for lengthened camber and less rocker in the middle. And this board’s silhouette is really fun for charging moguls as well. Overall, this is a great choice for the intermediate to advanced rider.

The Ravine is anything but loose or whippy. In the tail, there are thin rods of carbon for targeted pop and rigidity — and we love popping ollies to catch air with this ride. The powerful carbon rods add power in each turn, making moguls and fast tree laps that much more stoke-worthy. While you could steer this board through the park, we found it really thrives on unpredictable snowpack, side hits, and cliff drops. It’s a plow yet is easy to direct and follows your lead.

With a flex that felt more like a 7 to us, this board provides stability yet is forgiving. Under the back foot, the camber grounds the board, while the rocker under the nose and the poppy core adds a taste of playfulness. There’s also a torsional flex that enhances the adaptable nature.

From pow slashes to choppy, steep slopes and chattery days, this board kept us amped to ride through any conditions — except pure ice. The versatile Ravine plows ahead like a boat yet remains nimble and maneuverable.

What really sets this board apart from others is how wide it is compared to its length. Most boards dubbed “W” or wide start at a 26 cm waist width and are usually only offered in longer lengths. The regular 152 Nokhu has a waist width of 26.1 cm making it wider than most wide boards. Additionally, Never Summer offers a DF or drag-free version with a whopping waist width of 28.1 cm!

That’s one of the widest production snowboards available on the market — meaning even a size 12 or 13 snowboard boot should be able to lay trenches without dragging heels or toes. Our testers with a size 11 boot have often struggled to avoid dragging even on other “wide” snowboards. The Nokhu truly stands out as a properly wide board meant for big-footed riders. 

The versatility comes from the unique triple camber design, wide shape, and moderate-flex profile. The triple camber design is shaped like a W, with camber near the tip, tail, and center of the board with rocker in between. This design helps with edge hold and stability in chunder. However, we noticed that when straight-lining, it had a tendency to feel hooky, where the camber profile wanted to snag the snow and throw us off balance. This was avoided by keeping the board on edge as opposed to riding fully flat. 

Ultimately, the brand new Nokhu is an impressive board for its price point that thrives across various snow conditions while remaining fun, playful, and stable. The unique mountain goat top sheet graphic inspires one to get steep, while the board provides the tools to cruise, huck cliffs, and even take ‘er over ice. 

Also known as the 3D contour or spoon 3.0 base, the surf-inspired trait means the edges in the nose and tail are beveled by 7 mm — a subtle adjustment that creates a spoon shape.

And the directional shape likewise allows quick turn initiation, even while accelerating down the steeps. And if this snowboard’s core was a music genre, it’d be heavy metal. The blend includes robust and light Paulownia wood plus bamboo stringers, all held together with a triple layer of relatively stiff fiberglass laminate.

For experts, this Women’s Flagship Snowboard reigns. Despite the setback stance and decent taper, it can still stomp tricks — and switch too. This board is the basis for Jones’ bestselling Solution splitboard, which is great for exploring the backcountry.

Instead, the Warpig thrives just about everywhere. From the park to the groomers, this eye-catching board is a quiver of one with an affinity for the deep stuff. We love that the Warpig has tons of flex without completely sacrificing stability at speed. To create this unique combination of strengths, Ride has outfitted this board with a tight sidecut and a super-wide waist width. The Warpig has no problem with short radius turns and snappy maneuverability in the trees.

Directional rockered powder boards are not usually known for their versatility, but the Warpig is an outstanding exception. If you’re the kind of rider who loves surf-style snowboarding but wants a board that will also perform well on the crunchier days, the Warpig is the one for you.

Due to its rockered profile, this board finds longer high-speed carves a bit more challenging. However, the plus side of this profile shows itself in soft snow and powder. The Warpig floats as well as just about any powder specialist. A tapered tail allows the beefy nose to rise up and glide over fresh snow with delightful ease.

Rossignol built Marion Haerty’s pro model, the After Hours, to chase Freeride World Tour podiums. After all, the three-time champions know a bit about how boards operate.

This volume-shifted board has a shorter tail than nose but twin-stiffness, which made us feel more centered the entire time. We took it everywhere, including through trees, and enjoyed how quickly the shape steered.

Urethane strips help transfer energy to the sidewalls, absorbing turbulence and locking in those edges on icy terrain. And the broad nose of this big-mountain blade floats like a Cirque Du Soleil acrobat.

Tradeoffs? That short tail means landing isn’t as backed. Speed and straightaways aren’t where she excels. Switch is not our preference here. Overall, the After Hours Snowboard was simply built to leave fun marks all over the hill, excelling in a wide range of snow conditions and tight turns.

Equal parts solid and surfy, one of our GearJunkie testers had this OG model in her quiver for more than a decade before it started to feel limp.

The lamination includes three narrow layers that are lightweight and absorb a moderate level of vibration while providing midlevel stability — but don’t squelch the vivacity of the board. It’s super fun to shred.

The core is more flexy between the feet, so pressing rollers and performing ollies is snappy and giddy. And we appreciate the integrated stretchy plastic stabilizers below the binding mount, which disperse vibration to help reduce foot fatigue for big days and fast laps.

Overall, the Infinity Snowboard is one of the best-made softer all-mountain snowboards on the market today.

YES. is well known for pioneering many innovative design ideas over the years, and many of these have been expressed on the Typo. Their CamRock profile combines the responsiveness of traditional camber with the floatiness of rocker. Additionally, UnderBite edges feature incuts beneath each binding to redistribute the rider’s weight and improve manageability and edge hold.

Though a beginner rider could probably learn to love this board, it leans a little more toward the intermediate or advanced crowd. The snappy nature of the Typo is an asset for hitting large jumps, but it also results in a noticeably squirrely ride that beginners just don’t need to deal with.

While technically a directional twin, the Typo is nearly a true twin, as the setback of the stance is minimal. Still, this minor detail does come in handy while floating through powder, even if that isn’t the primary purpose of this board.

If you’re looking for a pure powder surfer or a hard charger, you may want to look for something with a more aggressively directional shape. Overall, the Typo is a highly versatile freestyle snowboard.

With a stiffer, directional design, the Riva performs well through ungroomed snow but really craves high speed on hardpacked, chalked-up runs and corduroy.

With a majority wood core made of paulownia, the board isn’t heavy, and it does offer a bit of pop when it’s set up for it – but that spring doesn’t come easy like a more freestyle-oriented board.

The Riva strikes a balance between that traditional camber underfoot and at the very end of the board’s tail and nose the profile is rockered, so it slightly curves up and off the snow like an upside-down banana.

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Oriented towards gals with speed and cliff cravings and more experienced riders, the Diva won’t disappoint. The design handled well on moguls, steeps, choppy powder, crud, hardpack, and ice alike. The edge hold was excellent, and we didn’t get jostled while the board absorbed chunder well.

A true twin in the profile and the flex, this tool is stable anywhere you slice. You’ll notice the camber underfoot and on the periphery allows you to connect like a hound with the snow surface and drive. The tip and tail have an early rise but we didn’t notice it too much. It’s subtle.

We also found that the Diva is on the stiffer end of the spectrum — which is perfectly fine for us and our all-mountain rodeo outings on this board. If you’re looking for a strong snowboard for aggressive shredding, here’s your chance.

First up, the design has a directional rocker, meaning there’s more tip rocker than in the tail, which all flanks the camber underfoot. The directional profile is coupled with a tapered shape, or silhouette, offering a slightly narrower tail that allows the back to sink a bit for optimal float.

One of our favorite features of this design is in-house Traction Tech 3.0, a proprietary serrated edge technology that increases the number of contact points with hard surfaces. We appreciated this gold smudge on ice patches and steep hardpack, especially midday or after a nice re-groom: That’s when this board is the strongest versus first thing in the morning. Specifically, there are three bumps per edge at the front binding, board center, and back binding with the central hump being slightly more protruded for an amplified hold.

Another detail we are stoked on: The 3D Contour Base 3.0. Meaning, Jones added a 7mm bevel to the nose and tail, which is like adding the curvature of a spoon to your board’s nose and backside. The result? Fantastic float and an easier charge through crust with less chance of catching an edge. That said, we found the Contour Base and the slightly rockered profile is likely why the board wasn’t a conquerer of straight ice the way we expected.

Ultimately, the women’s Stratos is a fairly stiff and directional choice that, rather than an amusement ride, is a sturdy all-mountain board for everyday powder, chop, or groomers. As a carver-oriented design, the board craves to be driven fast and forward.

Also, there’s a broader variety of sizes for folks of all body types. And this is the greatest quantity of size options (six) offered by any women’s snowboard in our guide.

Front and center, the core mixes lightweight, strong Paulownia wood stringers with Aspen, which we dig. For extra protection, double-level impact plates are integrated into the board beneath each binding, too.

And the highest level of carbon stringers is added to that same zone for sensitive response. Indeed, this is a stalwart steed for advanced to expert snowboarders.

This Psychocandy for the gals is a volume-shifted shape, and this board is meant to be sized down from your typical decks. To verify the solid power transfer, pro rider Hana Beaman is known to get buck on this silhouette.

Though this board is directional — with a tapered directional shape as well as a directional rocker profile with an accentuated rocker in the nose — it almost feels like a twin, which we love. The Dream Weaver is so easy to stay balanced on, right in the middle of the board.

This women’s ship is easy to steer around moguls, fun to plow into powder fields, and traverses well. The flex, which is soft-to-moderate, allows a tad of pop. The board maneuvers smoothly through the trees and offers mid-level arced turns.

We’re also happy that the Dream Weaver holds an edge really well, with a nod toward the Traction Tech 2.0 that adds two extra contact points on each edge, like a serrated knife, to help bite hard snow. While the 3D Contour Base is integrated into this design, like on the Stratos, the degree is dialed back to a 2mm bevel in the nose and tail’s spoon shape, which is a balance we dig.

Indeed, the Dream loves to carve, on ice and across hardpack. Ultimately, the ladies’ Dream Weaver cuts out any guesswork with prime dependability. Plus, in person, we’ve hardly ever seen a graphic so vibrant and beautiful as the mountain landscape on this board’s current topsheet.

Yet, Arbor’s rocker — aka parabolic profile — also maintains contact points that are close enough to the snow in order to hit higher speeds, rail turns, and stomp landings.

The design also features a nifty sidecut called Grip Tech, which shifts the four primary ergonomic contact points from the rise of the tip and tail to either side of each binding. With a more central location, those spots offer more direct energy transfer to the snow for better turns, stability, and control.

Overall, the board feels snazzy with a nice pop yet balanced with the centered stance. The Arbor Swoon Rocker is a great maneuverable, all-around option for advanced and expert shredders.

The core is poplar wood, which is durable and offers consistent flex for a predictable ride. This design also has a dip in the sidecut — dubbed the UnderBite — where the material pushes inward beneath the foot on both the heel and toe edge.

The result? Riders experience a more aggressive edge engagement while initiating a carve and through the arch of a turn, especially in hardpack. It also helps increase torsional flex of the YES. Hello by bringing the powder drive beneath the boots

While this board is a little more home in the park than in powder, it really shines when things get steep. That’s thanks to a unique fusion camber profile of rocker in the tip and tail — for extra float and smooth transitions — and a healthy amount of camber underfoot for railing carves or popping off jumps. Additionally, there are Flax Impact Plates underneath both feet which help absorb impacts so you can send it as big as Stale.

While a beginner could learn to love this board, especially with it being geared toward a do-everything design, we feel its best for intermediate or advanced riders. Its true performance comes out when things get fast and steep. 

Overall, the Stale Crewzer is a hard-charging, directional board aimed at handling a diverse range of snow conditions while balancing a playful yet precise feel. We found that it doesn’t hold up in powder like a true powder board, but it will still be plenty of fun charging around most days at the resort. 

Born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, Stranda Snowboards founder Mats Drougge started blueprinting surfy snowboards 2 decades ago, inspired by the ocean surf-emulated expression that was surfacing circa 1990, when he met surf legends Mike Doyle and Joe Cabell in Aspen, Colo.

The goal is to flow like water, which is visually reflected in the shifted volume and shapes of Stranda’s boards that officially hit the market in 2015. 

The brand specializes in the creation of directional snowboards and splitboards rather than freestyle or twins. 

We expected a stiffer board but were pleasantly surprised with the playfulness in the moderate flex. This is a directional board but the tail kick allows for safe switch landings, opening up more possibilities around the mountain.

Chatter in crud and at speed was noticeable but average for an all-mountain board with powder foremost in its sights. The softer flex profile is combined with a volume-shifted (toward the nose) design. However, that means that the Biru skews its skills more towards powder than trenching groomers, so it’s a solid fit for riders who get plenty of soft and deep days.

There are better options from Stranda and other brands if you’re mostly carving up the piste. But if you’re looking for a new super fun tool to whip around in a surfy way off-piste, don’t hesitate to consider the Stranda Biru.

We felt secure committing to these big turns thanks to the Traction Tech edge and tip and tail detuning to avoid unexpected snags coming in and out of turns. The full camber profile also allows the effective edge to run nearly the full length of the board for maximum contact and control at high speeds.

This board is stiff and powerful but requires full commitment to turns to enjoy the big, high-speed turns the Freecarver 9000 was designed for. Relax and the board may drive you instead of the other way around.

While we thought the Freecarver 9000 was great at what it was built to do, it’s a niche board that only fits as part of a quiver for most recreational riders and doesn’t excel in playful powder riding. Still, if you can afford to own a specialty board, it’s a great way to get the most out of low-tide days when the groomers are the only thing worth riding.

The four lengths are part of Jones’ new unisex efforts, which no longer split boards into men’s and women’s categories and instead alter widths, dimensions, and flex patterns to fit a rider’s size and weight regardless of gender. For charging slopes and getting speedy on the snow, be sure to check out the Freecarver 9000s.

Our initial impression before getting the BelleAire on snow was that it felt very light, almost fragile. But once on some resort chop, we gained confidence in this medium-stiff charger. We tried it in the full spectrum of resort conditions, and it proved to be an all-mountain board. It might not be your first choice if you’re a park rat, but it has enough pop for jibbing natural features. The early-rise nose and relatively stiff profile made it a capable pow-slasher. 

In theory, this is a medium-width board, but our larger-footed tester couldn’t really lay into groomer turns because of heel and toe overhang. Our smaller-footed riders had no trouble, but fair warning if you’re a bigger rider who wants to carve corduroy on low-tide days. Our other gripe was the sluggish factory tune which held the board back a bit until it was cleaned up.

Overall, we found the Fresh Prince of BelleAire to be a sturdy, dependable slasher in variable chop, strong in powder, and comfortable at speed on the groomers. While it’s not a playful spoon, the BelleAire is for charging anywhere, any day — and it’s not too stiff while living up to that name. This is not only one of the most eco-friendly boards ever made but is a solid contender for an all-mountain quiver to take over your foyer.

When charging at speed, the Mountain Twin offers a damp yet responsive ride, likely due to the high-quality semi-stiff wood core. For a board that’s this capable at speed, we appreciate that it can be playful when called upon.

Beginner riders will likely find the Mountain Twin is just a bit too aggressive for practicing the fundamentals. Riders on both sides of the Mississippi can certainly enjoy this board, as it thrives on just about every snow type.

Butters and jibs are well within the wheelhouse of the Mountain Twin. The mild directionality isn’t an issue when riding switch. Depending on how you set up your stance, the Mountain Twin can be excellent for folks who like to lead with both feet. The Mountain Twin feels perfectly at home in the terrain park. If you enjoy a variety of riding styles but only want to own a single board, the Mountain Twin is the all-mountain snowboard for you.

Burton’s Frostbite edge technology is well known for its superior traction, especially on ice and hardpack. The latest edition of the Flying V is built with Burton’s “Infinite Ride” — an innovative process that involves a machine that “breaks in the board for you.”

We recommend the Flying V to riders looking to maximize fun and enjoy every turn. This is definitely not an aggressive or hard-charging snowboard — it will chatter vigorously at high speeds. Instead, this board enjoys a leisurely pace. Floating through deep pow and low-angle tress are its bread and butter.

The Flying V’s forgiving nature makes it ideal for beginner and progressing riders — especially those interested in exploring (and enjoying) the whole mountain. The Flying V is all about pure fun and ease of use. It’s got pop but not a crazy amount. It’s quite flexy, and engaging the nose or tail into a butter couldn’t be easier.