Sölden Ski Resort | Austria
About Sölden, Austria
Austria's Sölden ski resort is among the better known resorts in the country. As annual World Cup alpine racing host, Sölden offers a host of attractive features for skiers and snowboarders. Sölden rises to 3,000 meters (9.800-plus-feet), which allows for good snow conditions throughout the ski season. Not only has Sölden served as a place of legend for ski racing either. James Bond fans will love to know that two 007 films have featured this legendary Austrian ski resort.
The infinite number of slopes for all levels and abilities and 33 state-of-the-art lifts with a capacity of 68,000 persons/hour coupled with the perfect grooming make Sölden a top Austria resort. The closest airport to Sölden is Innsbruck, but it is also easy to reach from Munich, Memmingen/Allgaeu and Salzburg Airports.
Stay
...in the majestic mountain village of Sölden.
Ski
...at a top elevation of 10,958 feet.
Travel
...by flying into Innsbruck or Memmingen airports.
Enjoy
...the surrounding views of mountains, glaciers and meadows.
Explore
...the home of the Ski World Cup.
Taste
...the 20+ restaurants in Sölden including mountainside dining.
Treat
...yourself with a visit to one of the many pastry cafes for traditional Austrian desserts and a piping hot cup of coffee.
Experience
...the 007 Elements, a cinematic installation built for James Bond fans to get a behind the scenes insight to different films in the franchise.
Ski Sölden
Sölden's slopes directly connected to great glacier skiing via a number of ski lifts and gondolas called Golden Gate to the Glacier. Skiing enthusiasts can ski uninterruptedly from the village of Sölden up to theglaciers at the elevation of 10,600-plus feet. Skiers can enjoy the region's longest trail in Solden, Schwarze Schneide at Rettenbach Glacier, which totals 9 miles and offers a 6,500-plus-vertical-foot descent.
Sölden ski resort features 142 kilometers (93 miles) of skiing spread over 40 pistes and accessed via 33 chairlifts. The resort offers a huge diversity of slopes for all levels of difficulty as well as perfectly groomed pistes. Adventurous skiers or snowboarders will enjoy exploring the ski area's two glaciers: Rettenbachferner and Tiefenbachferner, which open from September until May.
Solden
Solden is nice, not as expansive or famous as several other European resorts, but still with plenty of potential. On a good snow year there’s lots of room to spread out and ski off-piste. On a bad snow year it gets crowded on the runs and quite a bottleneck to get back down. We unfortunately arrived during a bad stretch of snow, with temps in the mid to high 40’s. While we skied 6 straight days, with difficult snow conditions the groomed runs got a little boring. After a couple days of battling the crowds at the end of the day we decided to take the gondola down, it worked out much better. The highlight of the week was unexpected, the James Bond Museum is worth taking a morning or afternoon off and checking it out. Bond fan or not it’s surprisingly good. There’s a lot of potential at Solden, a good snow year we could have been all over the mountain and had a lot of fun. As it was, we found ourselves a bit too limited. Check the snow reports!
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