Events: Freestyle Skiing (moguls, aerials, ski cross),
Snowboard (parallel giant slalom, halfpipe, snowboard cross)

Venue Capacity: 12,000 (freestyle skiing), 12,000 (snowboard), 8,000 (snowboard halfpipe).

Cost: $16.7 million for upgrades and improvements

Status: The expansion of existing facilities, including modifications to existing runs, a new in-ground halfpipe, a snowmaking system and water reservoir, lighting, a new freestyle site for aerials and moguls as well as a re-graded parallel giant slalom course.

Opened: November 30, 2007 saw the completion of Olympic venue upgrades

Elevation: 930 metres

Distance: 30km to Vancouver Athletes' Village

Cypress Mountain will host all the freestyle skiing and snowboard events during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The mogul and aerial courses are side by side, literally overhanging the main Cypress Mountain parking lot. The spectator venue for those two events will be set up at the bottom of the courses in an extension of the parking lot, creating a convenient venue to access.

The ski cross and snowboard cross events will take place on the same course, but will happen a few days apart so the course can be lengthened for the ski cross event.

Cypress Mountain had an in-ground halfpipe built in preparation for the 2010 Games. The halfpipe is set at an incline of 17.5 degrees and is 170m long with 22 foot high walls. A halfpipe of this size is often referred to as a "superpipe". The walls of halpipes have increased in height since the early 1990s. A standard halfpipe has walls that are 11 feet high, whereas a superpipe is any halfpipe with walls 16 feet high or greater.

In November 2006, the freestyle venue became the first 2010 Winter Games site to be ready for competition.

Cypress Mountain is located in the southern section of Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver and is located 30km from the Vancouver Olympic Athletes' Village. As of 2008, the ski area had 52 downhill ski runs split between two mountains, Mount Strachan and Black Mountain. Neither mountain's official name is Cypress, but the ski region, which used to go by the name Cypress Bowl, named "the bowl" between the two mountains "Cypress" after the yellow cedar tree Chamaecyparis nootkatensis that grows in the area. The tree is also more commonly known as the yellow cypress.