As we are all anticipating that first snowfall on our local hill, time seems to pass by slower and slower. Each day feels longer as we dream about bluebird powder days, and shredding with our friends. The perfect way to pass some time is to look at this year’s best women’s snowboards. Whether you’re looking for an all-mountain snowboard, a freestyle snowboard, or your first snowboard ever, I’ve got you covered. This comprehensive guide will give you several options to choose from to best match your style of riding and skill levels. So, let’s gear up and prepare for the season by finding the perfect snowboard for you.
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Snowboard Characteristics
As a refresher be sure to check out our other guides on the different snowboard types and how they match with different riding styles and snowboard boots and how to choose them. These guides go more in-depth and can really help when it comes to choosing a set-up.
For the purposes of this post, we will quickly go over the main characteristics you want to keep in mind when considering your purchase. These are the different snowboard types, profiles, flex ratings, and shapes. Knowing these and how to match them to your style will make picking a snowboard quicker than ever.
The Best Women’s Snowboards of 2023/24 (Our Top Picks)
- Best All-Mountain Women’s Snowboard: CAPiTA Birds of a Feather
- Best Freeride Women’s Snowboard: Salomon Bliss X
- Best Freestyle Women’s Snowboard: CAPiTA Space Metal Fantasy
- Best Powder Women’s Snowboard: Ride Peace Seeker
Best Women’s Snowboards: By Board Type
Best All-Mountain Women’s Snowboards
An all-mountain snowboard is meant to take over the entire mountain. Whether you’re shredding powder, gliding groomers, or jibbing around in the park these boards should be able to handle it all with style. Here are the top 3 snowboards for this category.
CAPiTA Birds of a Feather
Features:
- Shape: Twin
- Profile: Camber, flat under feet, Rockered tips
- Flex: 5.5/medium
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced riders
If you only have the option of purchase one snowboard ever, this should be it. An all-mountain destroyer that will last for many seasons. This board comes recommended by yours truly, after having rode this board for nearly 5 years, I can say it is hands down my favorite and still my daily driver.
Don’t just take my word for it though, this womens snowboard has won many awards such as the Transworld Snowboarding Good Wood, Snowboard Magazine Platinum Pick, and Snowboarder Magazine Best.
K2 First Lite
Features:
- Shape: Directional twin
- Profile: Rocker
- Flex: 3/soft
- Best For: Beginner-intermediate riders
This womens snowboard is great for beginners and seasoned riders alike. With a super soft flex rating, you can learn to butter down the groomers and take conrol of your turns. Make your carving go to the next level with a the no catch feeling this board will give you.
Salomon Bliss X
Features:
- Shape: Tapered directional – tail is tapered
- Profile: Hybrid – Rocker-camber-rocker
- Flex: 4/medium
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced riders
With it’s hybrid profile, we love the Salomon Bliss X for it’s gnarly and efforless pop into the air. It also gives max control with the least resistance when carving in any condition. Tackle big mountains, jibs around town, or local groomers with this snowboard.
Best Women’s Freeride Snowboards
A freeride snowboard is meant for those who seek the territory unknown, the runs less traveled. These boards make the perfect off-piste and backcountry companions due to their stiff flex, and therefore aggressive and ultra-responsive to varying terrain. Usually found with wider tips, these rippers can also float on top of powder like nobody’s business.
Yes. Hel Yes.
Features:
- Shape: Underbite
- Profile: Hybrid – Rocker-camber-rocker
- Flex: 7/stiff
- Best For: Advanced-expert riders
With specialized shape technology, including a directional underbite, this Yes. women’s snowboard will help you explore those secret locals-only spots and charge through that first line of fresh powder. With a true sintered base, you’ll be sure to beat your friends to the bottom of the run every single time. Adding to this is their mixed base which includes bamboo – making it extra light.
K2 Excavator
Features:
- Shape: Directional
- Profile: Hybrid – Rocker-camber
- Flex: 7/stiff
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced
Coming in with a super unique camber profile that runs from the front binding all the way to the back of the snowboard is the K2 Excavator. With that profile and a stiff flex rating, this board will give you the most control possible in any terrain to be found. With its extra wide nose to boot, the excavator will float you between those pines on the deepest days of the year.
The Arbor Swoon is one of a kind, and just flat-out beautiful. With specialized shape technology helping increase the feeling of control and contact with the snow, you’ll be sure to swoon over this women’s snowboard all season long (and I’m sure all your friends will too). We love this board specifically for its intense pop from the parabolic camber profile. Not only will you be able to shred where others can not, but you’ll be able to fly higher than them too.
Best Women’s Freestyle Snowboards
If your typical style is park riding or groomer buttering all the way down, you’ll want to get your hands on a freestyle snowboard (aka a park board). With a typically soft flex rating, twin shape, and short length, I like to refer to my freestyle board as my little whip stick. Add an extra sense of style to all your creative tricks and hop on a park board ASAP.
CAPiTA Space Metal Fantasy
Features:
- Shape: Twin
- Profile: Rocker
- Flex: 4/soft
- Best For: Beginner-intermediate riders
The CAPiTA Space Metal Fantasy has been a favorite at my local resort for years now. Not only are the graphics super dope every year, but the snowboard just seems to get better and better with CAPiTa making sure to upgrade their base and shape technology year after year. The flat sections under the bindings give this a skateboard-like feel giving you an effortless ride through the park.
Bataleon Disaster
Features:
- Shape: True twin
- Profile: 3BT low-camber
- Flex: 2/soft
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced riders
Bataleon snowboards ride with a no-catch feel thanks to their patented triple base technology (3BT) that gently lifts all the edges of the snowboard creating a boat-like shape. With its true twin shape, your center of gravity can stay where you need it on every huge landing you stomp. These snowboards also come with a specialized base making them faster than all the rest. If you want to try new jibs without catching, grab a Bataleon and thank me later.
Arbor Cadence
Features:
- Shape: 3-degree uprise fenders & Grip Tech
- Profile: System camber
- Flex: 4/soft
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced riders
I know I recommended an Arbor snowboard already and for good reason. I promise this second recommendation is it’s equal when it comes to park riding. With a soft flex, but not quite soft enough to feel like a noodle, this snowboard will also be able to shred down the groomers with total control. Easily go from a carve to an ollie with its specialized camber profile.
Best Women’s Powder Snowboards
Powder snowboards usually come in unique and wide shapes. A longer nose and a super short tail are meant to help lift you up and out of the powder to be able to float on top of it. Adding to this is that the nose is usually nice and wide with the tail being tapered and more narrow to really help you dig that back foot in deep. There is more fun to be had on pow days if you have a powder board, I swear by it. Jumping into our last set, here are the best women’s powder snowboards.
Ride Peace Seeker
Features:
- Shape: Directional
- Profile: Directional extra camber
- Flex: 7/stiff
- Best For: Advanced-expert riders
The Ride Peacekeeper has a shortened rocker profile in the front and an extra-long camber in the back. Did someone say “business in the front, party in the back?” This feature helps float above the pow and also rockets you into the air with little effort. This snowboard also features impact plates below the feet, to help prevent a break, and increase compressive strength.
Jones Mind Expander
Features:
- Shape: Directional
- Profile: Hybrid – rocker-camber-rocker
- Flex: 6/medium
- Best For: Intermediate-advanced riders
This snowboard’s profile was literally designed to surf on the powder. In fact, its profile was created by Chris Christenson – a surf shaper. This women’s board could technically do it all, but we think it really shows off in the deep powder. An uprise in not only the nose, but the tail too helps maximize float and decrease sinkage. This board also seems to have the most seamless transition going from a carve to a natural side hit.
Featuring Yes. radial tapered technology, this snowboard comes short, but with a circumference that is much larger. For example, the 148 has the same circumference as a typical 160-size snowboard. This helps the mass be more focal to your feet, creating stability and maneuverability that is unmatched in deep powder. Another one of Yes. technologies, the weightless core, helps this feel lightweight and truly “floaty.” Pick up your new best bud today and head to the pines.
