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Arosa

The venue for the 2007 FIS snowboard world championship, Arosa is a traditional Swiss ski resort in the German speaking part of Switzerland, 100 miles (160kms) south east of Zurich at snow sure altitude of 1,739m with a wide-open ski area up to 2,600m.
 


An all year round health resort since 1877 at the top the Schanfigg Valley, Arosa is popular with families and a mostly well-heeled 40+ crowd. The charming village is built around Lake Obersee with no through traffic and hotel, apartments, chalet properties extending upwards among the pine trees in an attractive hillside setting.

Arosa at a glance
 

On the mountain

Ski area

The Arosa ski season runs from December to April and the best snow conditions are usually found from early February to the beginning of March.
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Lift system

The Arosa ski area is served by 13 ski lifts ? two modern cable cars, an express gondola, six chairlifts and four surface (T-bar) lifts.
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Ski schools & guiding

There are two ski school offices just a few metres from the cable car in Arosa - the Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Arosa and smaller ABC Snow Sports school both offer private ski and snowboard lessons as well as group tuition.
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Advanced & expert

Compared to other big name resorts the Arosa ski area is small, 60kms of marked pistes including just a dozen reds and a few blacks, which is easily skied in a day by advanced skiers and aggressive intermediates but there are quite good off-piste opportunities.
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Intermediate

Arosa?s ski area is fine for early intermediate skiers, but if you?re a strong intermediate with a penchant for long cruisy reds and prefer not to ski the same run twice then Arosa will not be first choice for a week long vacation.
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Beginner

There are six beginner runs served by three T-bar drag lifts that run right and left from the middle station (2,013m) on Tschuggen (?little hill?).
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Boarding & freestyle

Centre stage for boarders and freestylers is Arosa?s massive half-pipe next to the Tomeli draglift on Tschuggen.
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Mountain restaurants

Arosa?s ski area is well served by mountain restaurants with additional on-mountain dining possibilities in hotels at Prätschli and Inner Arosa.
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Ski Map

open Arosa Ski map

Off the mountain

Village

One of the highest ski resort villages in Europe at 1,739m above sea level Arosa?s is built on pine forested slopes with hotels overlooking the valley and lake Obersee in the village centre.
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Accommodation

There?s a good choice of accommodation with many good hotels ranging from the 5-star Tschuggen Grand and Kulm hotels, the lively designer Hotel Eden down to the Vetter 1-star hotel next to the ski lifts in Arosa). more...

 

Après-ski

Arosa is a quiet but entertaining place to stay and ski but après ski bars are neither the best nor the most conspicuous so if you?re an out and out party animal Arosa is not the place for you.
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Restaurants & bars

There's around a dozen or so restaurants visible as you wander around Arosa by night. Less obvious, but worth checking out are some of the hotel restaurants
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Other information

Arosa is a genuine winter holiday resort with a full range of winter sports activities and around 50% of winter guests come for reasons other than skiing and snowboarding, winter walking being especially popular.
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Getting there

Located at the top of the Schanfigg Valley (1,800m) about 100 miles (160km) south east of Zürich Arosa is most easily reached via Zürich International Airport then by road or regular train services to Arosa via Chur. more...

 

 

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