StraightLine Rails is the brainchild of Dave "Hooter" Van Houten, one of the east coast's foremost terrain park designers. Dave has been involved in terrain park design, construction, and maintenance since 1993. Prior to managing terrain parks Dave’s snow resort operations experience includes snowmaking, grooming, and lift operation. In 1999 Dave started SnowPark Management, a consulting business that brought Dave’s snow park and halfpipe expertise to resorts throughout eastern North America and portions of South America.

StraighLine Rails was launched in 2001 to meet the evolving demands of terrain park snowboarders and skiers. SLR quickly filled the growing need for well designed and well constructed jib features, such as rails and boxes, that were fun to ride, safe, and easy to manage. Dave’s extensive snowboarding and mountain operations experience gave him unique insight into building jib features that would keep both riders and mountain managers happy. SLR continues to evolve and has developed a refined product that is unmatched in quality and design. Over 300 SLR terrain park features can be found at snow resorts across the country.

With true Vermont ingenuity StraighLine Rails can build just about anything, and welcomes custom projects of practically any size. SLR works with a variety of materials and construction techniques including welded steel, sheet aluminum, various poly materials, and even wood and logs. SLR has developed and fabricated many of their own specialized tools - including precision pipe bending equipment. SLR does everything in-house with no outside contracting, which saves you money.

In 2009 StraighLine Rails launched a Residential line of jib features for home or club use.

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