Ski in Wildschönau

Skiing in Wildschönau

Wildschönau - Ski Resort in Austrian Alps - 65km of Piste (828m to 1903m)

Wildschonau is made up of four villages, three with separatre ski areas which are marketed together. Oberau is a tiny village close to the dense lift network of larger neighbours Auffach and Niederau, to which it is not lift-linked, A free local bus service links all three villages which also participate in the huge Kitzbüheler Alpen pass offering around 1000km of trails on one ticket.

Wildschönau

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Wildschönau Ski Facts

Wildschönau Ski Facts

		Expert Skiers
		Intermediate Skiers
		Beginners
		Snowboarding
		Snow
		Apres-ski
	2	Black Pistes (12km)
	11	Red Pistes (43km)
	17	Blue Pistes (15km)
	1	Green Piste
65km		Downhill Pistes
50km		Cross Country Pistes
26		Ski Lifts
1903m		Highest Lift
828m		Lowest Piste
828m		Resort Altitude

Wildschönau

The Wildschönau Ski Area includes Austrian Ski Resorts with a combined total of 65km of downhill skiing, with 64 individual pistes, served by 26 ski lifts. The Wildschönau Lift Pass allows you to ski or snowboard in any of the ski resorts of Auffach, Niederau, Oberau and Thierbach.

Snowmaking :- Wildschönau is able to augment natural snow, on 27km of ski runs, with 25 Snow Cannons.

Ski Lift Capacity :- The 26 Ski Lifts of Wildschönau are able to uplift 30,000 skiers / snowboarders per hour.

How To Get To Wildschönauby air

There are four Airports within two hours drive, so ski weekends, snowboard breaks and short ski holidays to Wildschönau are perfectly feasible. Innsbruck Airport is just one hours drive away, in good driving conditions, so you can be on the piste quickly.

Skiing in Wildschönau

The Wildschönau's skiing is a fragmented affair with the largest areas above Niederau and Auffach and half a dozen small separate beginner areas next to the villages themselves. A free ski bus links the various areas. Niederau has perhaps the most varied terrain, whilst Auffach, with largely intermediate category skiers, has the biggest vertical and highest lifts. Oberau itself has five parallel drag lifts next to one another along a road that runs out above the village. They serve about a dozen short beginner runs on wide sunny meadows beneath the forest. There is also one longer drag serving an intermediate descent.

Niederau's skiing is the main attraction for advanced skiers with the three black runs all here, including an excellent mogul run beneath the new Markbachjoch gondola with a vertical drop of nearly 700 metres. Ski touring is another opportunity with a ski school guide. Auffach's two stage gondola accesses more than half a dozen reds and the most snowsure skiing in the area, including some above-treeline terrain where powder can build up that's pretty well absent elsewhere.

Cross country skiers will find 50km (31 miles) of trails along the valley floor.

Snowboarding in Wildschönau

With a family feel, two thirds of the terrain graded easy and ninety per-cent of the terrain served by drag lifts, most of them T bars, Niederau and Oberau will not appeal to the hardcore 'boarder. There are plus points to the area however, including a fun park with half pipe at Auffach which, along with Niederau, has top to bottom gondola access. Niederau has some fun terrain with natural terrain features on the long fast black down from the gondola, so if you approach the place with an open mind, you can have a lot of fun. There's also a Race 'n' Boarder Arena in Niederau.

Wildschönau Aprés Ski

Niederau is generally regarded as the liveliest choice of the three. The Dorfstub'n Fun-Pub there offers dancing and live entertainment every Sunday from 8:30 pm. The café at the Simmerlwirt is often lively as soon as the lifts closes and sometimes has live music.

All of the villages organize music evenings several times weekly and the ski school in Niederau throws a snow party every week. Lively evening toboggan parties with glühwein and moonlit sleigh rides to fondue parties are the order of the day.

The local brew is a version of schnaps made from turnips!

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Wildschönau in brief

Wildschönau Ski Area is:
Ok for Expert Skiers.
Very good for Intermediate Skiers.
Very good for Beginners.
Good for Snowboarding.
Opened : 08 December 2011
Closed : 09 April 2012
Opening Subject To Snow Conditions.

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