Zell am See, Austria
With a magnificent lakeside location and towering mountains all round, the ski holiday resort of Zell am See is one of the most attractive to be found.
Intermediates will enjoy Zell am See’s skiing the most with more than 50 kilometers (32 miles) of red and blue runs to speed down, including an 8-kilometer (5-mile) trail, the Schutt, descending the full 1,200-meter (3,900-foot) vertical back down to the resort. Advanced skiers have several long semi-steep blacks descending through the forest back down to the resort to enjoy. Several of the advanced runs are regularly covered with moguls and the area has excellent off-trail powder when it snows.
Zell am See and Kaprun are about 10 minutes apart by bus, and one ski pass covers both resorts and bus transfers. The top lift-served elevation at Zell am See is 2,005 meters (6,578 feet), reached by cable car to the top of the Schmittenhöhe. Kaprun offers skiing up to 3,030 meters (9,938 feet) by way of the Gletscher cable car up the Kitzsteinhorn. At the top of this lift there is a restaurant offering spectacular views of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest peak.
For the snowboarders, the resort represents one of the best places to have fun. Two parks and two half-pipes offer great on and off-trail facilities with ideal possibilities for the boarders. The fun park at Schmittenhöhe contains one of the two Austrian boarder-cross courses and therefore also hosts the annual openings of the Snowboard Boarder-cross World Cup.
There is a fascinating and fairly priced program of sportive, cultural, and just simply entertaining offerings throughout the year which include skiing, snowboarding, cross country (about 200 kilometers of trails), snow hiking, snowshoeing, tobogganing (on slides, truck tires, and boats), ice sailing, ice skating, hockey, sleigh rides, llama hikes, ballooning, paragliding, ice climbing, swimming in- and outdoors, concerts, festivals, theater, musicals, exhibitions…and, of course, the regular après-ski activities found in restaurants, bars, pubs, and nightclubs.
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About Zell am See
