Slope Breakdown
Val Gardena at a glance
Val Gardena is a ski resort in Italy, part of the Dolomiti Superski ski area. It offers 175 km of slopes served by 79 lifts, with skiing between 1,236 m and 2,518 m (1,282 m vertical). That makes it the 6th largest of the 30 ski resorts in Italy listed on Intski. The season usually runs from December to April. Val Gardena is an intermediate's mountain: roughly 59% of the slopes are red runs. Freestylers get 2 snow parks.
Top features of this resort
Snow forecast
About 3 cm of new snow at the top (2,518 m) in the next 3 days, none at the base.
New snow and temperature at the top station. Estimated by Intski from the MET Norway forecast, updated every few hours. Where it snows most this week
Email me when it snows
An alert when 15 cm or more is on the way at Val Gardena, and a heads-up before it opens.
Getting there & lift pass
Nearest airport
Bolzano (BZO) — about 31 km from the resort, straight-line distance, allow more by road.
Lift pass
Adult day pass around 72 EUR (2025/26 season). Val Gardena local day pass.
About €0.41 per km of piste the pass covers (175 km).
Compare lift pass prices at all resortsPrice source, checked 2026-09-14
Driving to Val Gardena
Rules for a car in Italy, checked 30 September 2026 against official sources.
Road charge
Motorway tolls by distance
Winter tyres
Winter tyres or chains on board, 15 Nov to 15 Apr, on signed roads (Valle d'Aosta from 15 Oct)
Studded tyres
Unclear: allowed up to 3.5 t; the period is not confirmed on an official page
Val Gardena resort facts
These figures cover the lift network Val Gardena shares with Selva Val Gardena and Ortisei on Intski: one sector of the Dolomiti Superski pass, not the whole pass. Difficulty shares from skiresort.info.
About Val Gardena
Val Gardena goes by three names, Gröden in German and Gherdëina in Ladin, and that says a good deal about the place. It is a valley in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, in northern Italy, and Wikipedia notes it is best known as a tourist area for skiing,…
Resort Highlights
One valley, three names
Val Gardena goes by three names, Gröden in German and Gherdëina in Ladin, and that says a good deal about the place. It is a valley in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, in northern Italy, and Wikipedia notes it is best known as a tourist area for skiing, rock climbing and woodcarving. The Ladin name points to the valley’s own linguistic identity, and traditional charm is one of its tagged features in our data; the woodcarving tradition is part of that character rather than a sideline.
The skiing
Our data records 175 km of local pistes served by 79 lifts, with two terrain parks. The difficulty split favours the middle: 104 km is rated intermediate, 59% of the total, with 50 km of easy runs (29%) and 21 km for experts. That is the profile of a resort where families and improving skiers get the most out of every day, while advanced skiers will look to the 21 km of harder terrain and beyond it to the wider network. The lift count is high for the mileage, roughly one lift for every 2.2 km of piste, and a modern lift system is a tagged feature: expect short waits and a network that makes moving between sectors easy, with enough redundancy to keep skiing when one sector closes.
Altitude and the Dolomiti Superski
The lifts run from 1,236 m to 2,518 m, giving 1,282 m of vertical. The top station is above the 2,200 m mark at which altitude begins to help snow reliability, although the base is fairly low, so expect the most dependable conditions on the upper slopes at either end of the December to April season. Val Gardena is part of Dolomiti Superski, the shared lift-pass area covering ski resorts across the Dolomites, which means the 175 km listed here is only the local portion of what one pass can unlock.
Who it suits
Intermediates who want mileage, families who want easy runs in quantity and anyone who values a valley with a culture of its own will find Val Gardena a strong choice. Experts get 12% of the local terrain plus whatever the wider pass offers, and the two parks give freestylers somewhere to go. The 1,236 m base also puts the valley at a comfortable altitude for non-skiing members of the party. Scenic views are a tagged feature, which in the Dolomites hardly needs explaining.
Practical
Bolzano (BZO) is the nearest airport in our data, roughly 31 km away as the crow flies, an unusually short distance for an Alpine resort. The season runs from December to April.
Frequently asked questions about Val Gardena
Gröden in German and Gherdëina in Ladin.
Wikipedia notes it is best known as a tourist area for skiing, rock climbing and woodcarving.
Of 175 km, 50 km is rated easy, 104 km intermediate and 21 km expert, so 59% of the local pistes are intermediate.
Val Gardena is listed in our data under Dolomiti Superski, the shared lift-pass area covering ski resorts across the Dolomites.
79 lifts and two terrain parks, according to our data.
Val Gardena has 175 km of marked slopes: 50 km easy (blue), 104 km intermediate (red), 21 km expert (black), served by 79 ski lifts.
The skiing in Val Gardena ranges from 1,236 m at the base to 2,518 m at the top — a vertical drop of 1,282 m.
The ski season in Val Gardena typically runs from December to April. Exact opening dates vary by year and snow conditions.
Val Gardena works for beginners, though it is not a dedicated beginner resort: about 29% of the slopes (50 km) are easy blue runs.
Val Gardena has 21 km of expert (black) slopes — about 12% of the total. There are 2 snow parks for freestylers.
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