Davos Ski Resort Guide
Davos is a skiers town with 60 lifts and 318km of prepared runs. Top lift at 2844 meters (3 mountain trains, 12 cable cars, 14 chair lifts, 24 T bars, 5 childrens' tows and 2 childrens' escalators) on 7 mountains (1 east facing, 2 west facing, 2 south facing, 2 skiable on all faces being possible to stay in the sun all day). There are 12 marked alpine walking trails, 1 avalanche training center, 4 fun parks, 4 sled runs, 35 on piste restaurants, 1 natural ice skating rink (free and free ice skates supplied), 2 commercial ice rinks (1 inside 1 outside), 2 train stations Dorf and Platz Dorf (being 100 meters from Parsenn). Biggest pisted skiable vertical drop 1900m, biggest off-piste vertical drop 2200m. Longest marked piste is 15 km, longest off-piste 24km. There are 13 marked but unprepared and uncontrolled off-piste runs. 140 off-piste tours of various difficulties from advanced to expert. Regional day pass includes all mountains, all buses in Davos and Klosters and trains between Kublis and Glaris. Most advanced skiing is off-piste with a few day tours without walking and unlimited non walking powder skiing between pistes and resorts; a guide is essential.
Davos/Klosters has 3 in-town beginner areas and several in tree runs which are open in the worst weather making it skiable every day of the season The trail/piste maps are too big to be displayed with only the main ski area of Parsenn/Gotchna listed above. Night skiing every Friday evening on Parsenn from 7pm until 10pm. The 7th mountain: Shatzalp has reopened for skiing with access via a mountain railway from the middle of town or from Hauptetälli on Parsenn through the gallery (only with a guide) with a double chairlift and 2 surface lifts. A separate ticket is neccessary to use the facilities on Schatzalp. Pischa is a freeride mountain with 3 groomed slopes and a cable car, 2 T bars and a childrens' tow with the rest of the south facing slope left as natural snow for learning to ski and ride powder also 6 advanced off-piste runs to the valleys on all sides from 6 to 12 km long with bus access back to the cable car or town.
Resorts close to Davos include:
Klosters (5 km),
Arosa (12 km),
Fideris - Fideriser Heuberge (15 km),
St. Peter - Pagig (15 km),
St. Antönien (18 km),
Davos Chalets, Ski Hotels & Lodging
Select Davos Location Map Detail:
(Also see our detailed Weather Map around Davos, which will give you visual overview of current and future snow conditions)
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Trails (Pistes): 99 |
Halfpipes: 2 |
| Summit: 2844 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 20% Int: 60% Adv: 20% |
Terrain Parks: 3 |
| Vertical Drop: 1284 m |
X-Country: 75 km |
| Lifts: 60 (3 trains, 12 gondolas, 14 chairs, 31 surface lifts) |
Snowmaking: 5% |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: 12 |
Slopeside accommodation: Y |
| Restaurants: 35 |
Acres of ski: 790 |
| Bars: 22 |
Nearest Airport: Zurich |
| Nearest Train: Davos Platz |
Tourist Info Phone:: +41814152121, Davos Tourist Office Website |
NEW!
Announcements & News from the Davos ski resort manager
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- Season opens: 18 Nov 2011
- Season closes: 22 Apr 2012
Tue, 15.11.2011 more dates...
OERLIKON FIS RacesLadies and Men - FIS Slalommore Daily from 16.12.2011 - 18.12.20112nd Swiss Telemark festival 20112nd Telemark festival in Grisons
Various workshops, off-piste guiding and much moremore
Daily from 02.01.2012 - 07.01.2012O'Neill Evolution Davos 2012The world's best snowboarders in Davos
Six (6) Star TTR World Snowboard Tourmore Daily from 14.01.2012 - 15.01.2012Swiss Freeski Open DavosThe Swiss Freeski elite meets ambitious young guns of the scene to competemore
Sat, 21.01.2012Ride the Night - The MTB Night Freeride EventNight-Downhill race - Cool night-sport experiencemore Sat, 04.02.2012FearnadaFreeride on the rubber boat or couch
The craziest race on snowmore
Sun, 05.02.2012, 11:00 h26. Folk-Super-GParsenn Stone Trophy
Folk race for everybodymore Daily from 24.02.2012 - 02.03.201210th European Deaf Alpine Skiing Championshipsby Swiss Deaf Sport Associationmore
Daily from 09.03.2012 - 11.03.201277th Parsenn DerbyThe downhill ski race is one of Switzerland's oldest and most traditional all-comers events
Professionals and amateurs compete in individual and team races, testing themselves at an extremely high standardmore Daily from 08.04.2012 - 15.04.201256th Anglo-Swiss Parliamentary Ski WeekThe traditional ski contest between English and Swiss parliamentarians
Information supplied 4 Dec 2011
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