A Winter Wonderland

Here are just some of the reasons to choose SalzburgerLand for your next skiing adventure:

1. Infrastructure: there is a wide selection of snow-sure and perfectly prepared pistes. The range of blue, red and black runs offer up a variety of challenges, whatever your experience. Family-friendly areas give you the opportunity to enjoy relaxed fun in the snow with your little ones, all against a breath-taking mountainous backdrop. Ambitious and passionate skiers, people returning to the slopes and beginners and hobby skiers alike will find their paradise here. From 5 star hotel suites and villas in the snow to youth hostels and camping facilities, SalzburgerLand also provides accommodation for every type of traveller.
2. Top Range of Ski Schools: there are 124 ski schools and an abundance of ski and snowboard teachers who have expert local knowledge, which means that regardless of your level of skill, there’s fun for everyone to be had.
3.  Rustic Mountain Huts and Gourmet Restaurants: the plethora of mountain huts dotted along the mountain range are stocked with the most delectable culinary delights, ensuring that hungry skiers are sent back to the slopes refueled and raring to go.
4. Vegan and Vegetarian Oasis: The region of Hochkönig is a paradise for vegan skiers. Sample meat- and fish-free delights on your skiing holiday, such as sesame falafel with hummus or lentil stew with fried onions in mountain huts such as the Zachhofalm (Dachegg), Wastlalm (Aberg), Steinbockalm (Hochmais/Sinalcobahn), Bärmooshutte (Abergbahn) and der Tischlerhütte (Aberg/Schönangerbahn)
5. Great Variety and Diversity of Activities: Although the majority of people return here for good old skiing, you’ll also find a huge number and range of winter sports enthusiasts pursuing their dreams in the mountains. These activities include: snowbiking, airboarding, snowkiting, telemark skiing, skibob, zorbing, snowsailing, winter canyoning, snow tubing and ski safaris. Read up more about these activities here.
6. Largest Area of Contiguous Ski Slopes: Everything comes together in SalzburgerLand with the Salzburg Super Ski Card, which combines 23 skiing resorts within 2700 km of beautiful slopes, offering up a whole heap of challenges and fun both on and off the slopes, all at fantastic value.
7. Glacier Skiing: If you’re looking for fantastic glacier skiing with low temperatures all year round and perfectly groomed runs for all-round skiing, look no further than Zell am See-Kaprun.
8. Fun for the Whole Family: SalzburgerLand puts emphasis on family-friendly fun both on and off the pistes. Some hotels specialise in family-friendly packages. Entire ski areas have also dedicated themselves to families. Forstau near Radstad and the Fageralm, Lofer and Saalachtal, the Lungau’s ski mountains and the Rauris Valley are just some of the regions to look out for.
9. Ski Adventures by Night: Floodlit slopes all over the area enhance, your skiing and snowboarding adventure meaning you can ski late into the night in a magical wintery atmosphere. Click here to see the schedule.

VIA CULINARIA 

For those who love gastronomy, Via Culinaria will sate their eager taste buds. Via Culinaria is culinary journey through SalzburgerLand, taking food lovers through 9 culinary pathways to the most delicious of SalzburgerLand’s regional products. Culinary seekers can sample foods directly from farmers and producers, enjoy traditional specialities cooked by rustic hosts or experience the highest level of gastronomic art at a critically acclaimed restaurant. The key ingredients of Via Culinaria are regionality, originality, quality and authenticity – it is therefore hardly surprising that Prof. Dr.h.c. Eckart Witzigmann, who was ennobled by Gault Millau as the “cook of the century”, has been chosen as a patron of Via Culinaria.

Via Culinaria offers culinary pathways for aficionados, fish fans, meat lovers, herbalists as well as friends of spiritual pleasures and fresh brews – which include beer and schnapps tastings. Those who adore cheese can sample the wonderful alpine cheeses along with the fine classics and other creative dairy products. With 260 culinary addresses, there will be scrumptious offerings for everyone’s taste.