Bad Gastein has one of the highest vertical drop of 1500m (5000 feet). The H1/H2 piste is Europes longest piste with 13 km (8 miles) carving heaven!

The Gasteinervalley consists of five skiing areas.
Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein are connected together with a lift system, where as Graukogel and Sportsgastein are seperated areas. The Graukogel is situated only 150 feet from our apartments. Sportsgastein can be reached by free busses or by car. In Sportsgastein, with a height of 2686 m (9000 feet) you can do downhill skiing in an extened period (the beginning of December to the end of May).

At the Graukogel near our apartments the snow is usually good as it lays towards the northwest.
Alpin skiing is fun here on the wide "boulevards", outrages offpists, cosy forrest trails and not to forget halfpipes and snowboard parks for snowboarders. Here is skiing opportunities for everybody.

In the skiing areas there are cosy mountain restaurants serving Austrian specialities.

Off piste skiing
There are of course many places in the Bad Gastein area for off piste skiing. One of the more challenging is on the back side of Sports gastein. Please be cautious and use a local guide to show you the coolest places for off piste skiing.

New updatet equiptment
In all of the Gasteiner tahl area every overnigthing guest pays a small local turist tax. This money has, is, and will be invested in up grading the whole skiing area. You will be pleased to find brand new lift systems, a breath taking suspension bridge between moutain tops, artificial snow machines, just in case!
Many of the older lift systems have now heated seats and plexiglas canopies for comfort.
The last towing lift is now history, and there are no slow "on wire" chair lifts at all! You will have a hard time to find a queue lasting more than 5 minuts.

Cross country skiing
Is the family split between alpin skiing and cross country skiing? Here are possibilities for both, as there are 98 km (61 miles) prepared cross country trails, in the most breath taking surroundings.

Activity for Children.
Located in skiingcentrum Angertal you will find the very children friendly ”KIDS Park”, situated on a 8.000 m² (86.000 sp ft) area, with possiblities for playing and learning to master the skies. You will find skiing schools and induvidual skiing instructers here for your service. There is a special designed rolling carpet to help the young ones get up to the top of the trainning hill for a easyer start.

Other activities
In addition to skiing there is also the possibility of sledge rides, ice-skating and snowbiking. How about surprising your loved one with a romantic sledgh tour with horses.