Vorarlberg

Austria’s western most province of Vorarlberg includes six separate ski regions offering family friendly piste skiing, good off-piste, high altitude ski touring and extensive networks of well maintained trails for cross country skiing and winter walking.

Vorarlberg has plenty to offer discerning skiers and boarders
Traditional Austrian hospitality often in pretty villages, good accommodation, a consistently good snow record, efficient lift systems, well groomed pistes as well as plenty of skiing and boarding off-piste and easy transfers by road or rail from a choice of airports. There's value for money accommodation to suit all budgets from affordable 4-star hotels, some great ski-in ski-out hotels, bed & breakfast pensions and self-catering ski apartments. Prices at all levels are invariably cheaper than in better known ski resorts elsewhere in Austria.

Vorarlberg ski resorts are quiet in comparison to resorts like St Anton, Ischgl or Kitzbuhel. Après ski will often be enjoyed in the comfort of one's hotel or at an umbrella bar or sun terrace on the mountain. This appeals to families with young children and groups of committed skiers looking to maximise their time on the slopes. If that sounds like you, read on ...

Bregenzerwald
The pretty Bregenzerwald region in northern Vorarlberg lies between Bodensee (Lake Constance) in the west and the Arlberg and Tirol to the east. There’s 259km of downhill skiing and 93 ski lifts in total between 600-2,050m, best of which is in three main ski resorts – Damuls-Mellau (89km), Warth-Schröcken (66km) and Au- Schoppernau (44km) – mostly served by fast chairlifts and connected by regular free ski bus service and with skiing and boarding for all abilities (76km blue, 72km red and 14% black), some interesting off-piste between Warth and Lech and over 300km of cross country skiing (66km of which is on mountain and above 1,000m) and 200km of well prepared winter walking trails.

Bregenzerwald is a thriving tourist destination winter and summer with over 35,000 tourist beds, in over a dozen pretty villages throughout the region, including 8,000 guest beds in the six villages – Damuls (2,200), Mellau (1,100), Au (1,430), Schoppernau (1,670), Schrocken (1,180) and Warth (800) – where there are numerous attractive 3-star and 4-star hotels some of which are situated high in the ski areas. View our guide to skiing and boarding in Bregenzerwald

Montafon
The Montafon ski region in southern Vorarlberg has glaciers and 80 peaks over 3,000m. There’s 219km piste skiing between 650-2,300m mostly on Silvretta Nova, Hochjoch, Schafberg and Golm and 57 ski lifts carrying 90,320 riders per hours. Most pistes are blue (109km) or red intermediates (78km) with comparatively few black runs (32km), but lots of opportunity for skiing off-piste, great ski touring, three Snowparks, around 30 mountain restaurants and 144km cross country skiing. Throughout Montafon there are more than 17,000 guest beds including a wide range of accommodation in the main town Schruns – Tschagguns (5,600) and ski villages Gaschurn (4,680), St Gallenkirch (2,400), Gargellen (1,100), Partenen (877) and Silbertal (900) and around 3,000 more lower down the valley. View our guide to skiing and boarding in Montafon

Klostertal
Klostertal is situated west of the 13km long Arlberg tunnel and is home to the family friendly ski area of Sonnenkopf and to Stuben. There’s 64km of piste skiing in total, 39km on Sonnenkopf and 25km on the Abona at Stuben, and mostly red (38km) and blue (19km) runs, but Stuben is also connected by ski lift to the much bigger St Anton ski area and by bus to Lech-Zűrs. Better still, the off-piste skiing in Stuben is challenging and highly regarded, and stays largely untracked long after St Anton gets skied out by locals. Stuben and Klosterle each have around 800 guest beds. Stuben has better choice of accommodation and is closest to other Arlberg ski resorts. On the other hand, accommodation in Klosterle (4km west of Stuben) is generally cheaper and closer to Sonnenkopf. View our guide to skiing and boarding in Sonnenkopf and Stuben.

Arlberg
Strictly speaking, the ski resorts of Lech-Zűrs and Stuben are situated in the province of Vorarlberg, but more closely associated with the Arlberg and Austria’s most celebrated ski resort, St Anton – the border between Vorarlberg and Tirol runs right past St Anton’s Ulmer Hűtte mountain restaurant. The villages of Lech and Zűrs attract a mostly sophisticated cosmopolitan clientele and have many excellent 4-star and 5-star hotels. But the Arlberg is best known for great skiing and boarding on pistes (283km) as well as masses of challenging skiing off-piste. View our guide to skiing and boarding in Lech-Zűrs, Stuben, Sonnenkopf and St Anton

Brandnertal
The Brandnertal region in the south western corner of Vorarlberg has 53km of family friendly piste skiing between 890-2,000m and on two mountains served by 14 ski lifts carrying 20,200 rider per hour. There are ski lifts from the adjacent villages Brand (2,160 guest beds) and Bűrserberg (770 guest beds) as well as a cable care and a blue piste connecting the two mountain ski areas and a free ski bus running between them. There's also 27km of cross-country skiing and a good selection of family friendly hotels.

Kleinwalsertal
The Kleinwalsertal in north east Vorarlberg, close to border with Germany, has 61km of piste skiing between 920-2,037m, mostly red (33km) and blue (21km) runs on three mountains served by a total of 30 ski lifts carrying 32,830 riders per hours. Kleinwalsertal has three ski villages – Riezlern, Hirschegg and Mittelberg – and the cost of a lift pass and hotel accommodation for two people for one week is apparently cheaper in Kleinwalsertal than in other Vorarlberg ski regions.

Getting to Vorarlberg by air
Getting to Vorarlberg ski resorts is easy. SWISS.com offer a wide selection of flights daily in and out of Zurich which are convenient for Vorarlberg ski resorts as well as Swiss resorts and Ryan Air offer daily flights from London Stansted to Friedrichshafen and Memmingen.

Transfers to Vorarlberg by road or rail
You can transfer by road from any of these airports to Vorarlberg ski resorts in under 2 hours and Vorarlberg Tourism provides latest information about winter shuttle bus transfers to Voralberg resorts from Friedrichshafen and Memmingem. Fast Inter City train services from Zurich through Vorarlberg stop at Bregenz, Bludenz and Langan am Arlberg with easy and relatively inexpensive onward connections by taxi to all destinations. For Montafon change trains at Bludenz and catch the local Montafonerbahn railway to Schruns. Klostertal and Arlberg ski resorts can also be reached in less than 2 hours by road or rail from Innsbruck.

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Bregenzerwald
Daműls Mellau
Au Schoppernau
Warth Schröcken
Montafon
Stuben am Arlberg
Sonnenkopf
Lech-Zurs

Vorarlberg Tourist Offices

Vorarlberg Tourism
Poststrasse 11
A-6850 Dorbirn
+43 5572 3770 33 0
info@vorarlberg.travel
www.vorarlberg.travel

Bregenzerwald Tourism
A-6863 Egg
+43 5512 2365,
info@bregenzerwald.at
www.bregenzerwald.at

Montafon Tourism
A-6780 Schruns
+43 5556 7225 30
info@montafon.at
www.montafon.at

Brandnertal Tourism
A-6780 Brand
Tel.: +43 5559 555
tourismus@brandnertal.at
www.brandnertal.at

Bludenz Tourism
A-6700 Bludenz
Tel.: +43 5552 63621-790
tourismus@bludenz.at
www.bludenz.travel

Klostertal Tourism
A-6754 Klösterle
+43 5582 7244
tourismus@kloesterle.com
www.kloesterle.com

Stuben Tourism
A-6762 Stuben
+43 5582 399
info@stuben.at
www.stuben.com

Lech-Zűrs Tourism
A-6764 Lech
+43 5583 2161 0
info@lech-zuers.at
www.lech-zuers.at

Kleinerwalsertal Tourism
A-87568 Hirschegg
+43 5517 5114 0
info@kleinerwalsertal.com
www.kleinerwalsertal.com