Niko Cioffi hikes under gray skies, the looming silhouettes of Seven Springs' newest "city," Forum's The Streets, in the background.

This past Thursday, a new wave of terrain parks was unveiled at Seven Springs in Pennsylvania. Seven Springs has become a banner resort in North America over the last few years, garnering Number One Park in the East in 2011 in the Transworld Resort Poll, and the newest addition to the terrain parks at the mountain continues Seven Springs' committment to its snowboard population.

The Streets is combined brainchild from Forum, Seven Springs, and SPT. Joel Rerko, Director of Action Sports at Seven Springs, worked for months on the project with his crew, as well as Aaron Dettling and the SPT crew, along with Kevin Keller and the Forum crew, and Forum Team Riders Pat Moore and Nic Sauve--and that is a lot of crews, but that's what it takes to pull off a park like The Streets. The combined creativity, passion for snowboarding, and dedicated follow-through off all of the people involved, brought to life a city-inspired park at the base of the mountain that is unlike anything a resort has seen before.

The Streets is impressive in photos, but the sheer size of the features is boggling when you check it out in person. To scale stairsets and buildings loom all around you when you walk into the park. Lookers' left of The Streets has intermediate-friendly features, but they don't lose the visual appeal that the larger features have: a flatbox is disguised as a planter, with three small shrubs in the middle of it; a short downrail "hubba" has a dancefloor instead of stairs. Solid attention to detail. Even in the middle of the park, there are ledges that are approachable for riders not yet ready to step to the buildings next door; training ground for the big stuff. And big it is. Lookers' right of The Streets is made up of fake buildings with long down rails and tons of stairs, closeout rails and ledges, and a rideable roof that gaps to a two-story wall.

January 19th was the official opening of The Streets. Forum riders Pat Moore, Nic Sauve, Stevie Bell, Cam Pierce, Niko Cioffi, Mario Kappeli, and Austen Sweetin were on hand to shred The Streets along with all of the local riders that were eager to take their turn hitting everything the new park. At 4pm sharp, champagne was uncoked as Nic Sauve cut a large chain to let a surging mass of riders enter The Streets for the first time. Kids ran up to the top of the park and immediately all of the lines in the park were populated by snowboarders. The resort "city" that is The Streets, officially welcomed its new residents.

It's best to check out The Streets in person, but if you haven't been able to get down to Seven Springs yet, here's a small tour through The Streets on opening day.

Jeremy Anderson worked long hours to make The Streets a reality. In the days leading up to the grand opening to the public, Jeremy worked round the clock driving a cat, to make sure everything was perfect. The park crew at Seven Springs is dedicated to their craft.

The Daily Forum, one of the largest features in The Streets. There's a down-flat-down, gap ledge, close out rail, and of course, the most impressive part of the feature (which is saying a lot, considering every other part that makes up the whole of this leviathan is impressive standing alone), the roof ride to wallride, which is huge, gnarly, and well, huge.

Stevie Bell tailpress 270 out.

Multiple take offs populate every feature of The Streets, allowing snowboarders a litany of options for hitting anything in almost any way. On the above feature, each level of stairs has its own take off, and then there's a take off for the rail, or you could ollie over the rail onto the wallride. Ride off the rail and land on snow next to the feature, groomed to perfection, or redirect and slide down the wall. Endless options.

A small down rail and down ledge with dancefloor in the middle at the top of the park.

Mario Kappeli tailpress.

A large stairset at the top of the park includes both stairs and dancefloors between rails, as well as a creeper rail against the wall.

Austen Sweetin tripod.

It may not be completely visable from this picture, but what you're looking at is a square tunnel with a dancefloor inside. Outside of the tunnel are the features below.

Mario Kappeli.

Ever wanted to stall on the roof of a building? Make your dreams a reality in The Streets.

Austen Sweetin.

Toward the bottom of The Streets, this picturesque plaza is an ideal place for spinning off ledges and firecracker-ing down stairs.

Nic Sauve attempting to cut the chain to officially open The Streets. In the end, Nic used a handheld electric saw to accomplish the task and let all of the eager shreds in.

The chain was cut, The Streets were open, and the Forum crew popped a well-deserved champagne toast.

Cam Pierce and Stevie Bell popping champagne.

As daylight started to decrease, The Streets were opened to the public. A mass of kids swarmed into the park, eager to hit everything and get to know the newest park at Seven Springs. The streetlights flickered on as the evening went on, and the snowboarders stayed in the park until the resort closed at 10pm.

For more photos, check out The Streets Opening album.