Zürs (Ski Arlberg)

The ski resort Zürs – Ski Arlberg is located in St. Anton am Arlberg (Austria, Tyrol (Tirol), Tiroler Oberland, Landeck) and in the Bregenzerwald (Austria, Vorarlberg, Bregenz). For skiing and snowboarding, there are 304 km of slopes and 200 km of ski routes available. 88 lifts transport the guests. The winter sports area is situated between the elevations of 1,270 and 2,811 m.

In the 2016/2017 winter season, St. Anton am Arlberg/St. Christoph/Stuben and Lech/Zürs/Warth/Schröcken combined to form the Ski Arlberg ski resort.

Ski Arlberg is the largest connected ski resort in Austria. The slopes for skiing, snowboarding and freeriding stretch from St. Anton am Arlberg in Tyrol, to St. Christoph and Stuben in Vorarlberg and further on to Zürs, Lech and Schröcken and all the way to Warth. The new Flexen 10-person gondola lift (connection lift between Zürs and Stuben/Rauz), which opened in the 2016/2017 season, completes the circle and enables a direct connection to each village in this expansive ski resort. This winter sports region is considered the cradle of alpine skiing and is the chosen destination for all who are fascinated by the alpine winter. St. Anton, the Après-Ski Mecca, is very popular among party fans, while Lech has a calmer atmosphere. Families will find what they are looking for in Zürs, Warth and Schröcken. The ski resort is easy to access via the Arlbergstraße and by train.

Source: skiresort.info

 

Has the climate crisis and the higher temperatures affected snow conditions in Zürs (Ski Arlberg)?
Look at the statistics and graph of historical snow depths for the ski resort.
For the last 5 years, week 9 has been the most insecure with 155,5 cm snow depth on average in Zürs (Ski Arlberg).
The measurement is made as an average of the snow depth at the highest and lowest point of the mountain.

With its linked neighbour Lech, the most fashionable resorts in Austria, each able to point to a string of rich and celebrated regular visitors, and to pull in Porsche-borne Germans on an unmatched scale. But, like all such ‘exclusive’ resorts, they aren’t actually exclusive in any real sense. A holiday here doesn’t have to cost a lot more than in countless other international resorts in the Alps. We don’t feel out of place here, and neither would you. The village attracts people who want to get out on the hill and is much smaller and quieter than Lech. It has nothing resembling a centre and is rather spoiled by through-traffic. But the real point about Zürs is that it offers a rare and attractive combination of impressive snowfall (more than half as much again than Lech), some of the area’s steeper slopes and comfortable hotels offering a truly personal service from their family owners. For this season the Arlberg is finally ‘closing the gap’, with the new Flexenbahn now on its way to completion in time for winter 2016/2017. Four new lifts will link Stuben on the St Anton side, to Zürs on the Lech side – all of which are high-tech 10-seat gondolas. This will mean that the Ski Arlberg area won’t only be the largest interconnected ski area in Austria, with 305km of slopes and 87 lifts, but it will also enter the top 10 largest in the world. The new lifts will make all points of the snowy Arlberg region quick and easy to access, and will also cut the number of buses running between the resorts – a significant environmental benefit.

• Convenient slope-side lodging
• Some quite challenging slopes
• Excellent children’s nursery slopes

• Not much of a village
• Weekend queues
• Exposed upper mountain

Source: Ski Club of Great Britain

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