Best Family Ski Resorts in Austria

Katschberg is a small ski resort situated on the border of the Carinthia and Salzburgerland provinces. Transfer time is approximately 1.5 hours from Salzburg Airport. With its slopes reaching up to 2300 metres, the resort offers a great snow record and stunning views across pine-clad landscapes as far as the eye can see. Beginners and intermediates on their ski holiday are well catered for with the mainly wide, uncrowded blue and red runs leading down the two sides of the valley.

Most of the hotels in Katschberg have ski-in ski-out access. The Hotel Cristallo, with its dedicated nursery slopes and children's areas along with indoor and outdoor swimming pools and spa make it an excellent choice for a family ski holiday. The small village retains a traditional atmosphere, its centre offering a few shops, restaurants and bars and a fairly quiet and definitely relaxing atmosphere.

There are 66 km of ski runs in total with the longest section, the new A1 run, of six kilometres running from the top of Aineck Mountain to the village of St Margarethen. Skiing is suitable for all ages and levels from beginner to intermediate. There are 16 lifts with a capacity of 2,400 people per hour.

Katschberg's ski season runs from mid-December to a week after Easter, with snow guaranteed thanks to the cutting-edge snowmaking machines.

Other family activities include night sledding from the Gamskogel Hut mountain restaurant down into the valley on a 1,5km floodlit slope.
Ice Skating in the village square in the centre of Katschberg
Night skiing between 7 and 9 pm on flood lit slopes, free of charge (with valid ski pass). For those that can't get enough during the day!

Obergurgl is a traditional old village, set in a remote spot near the head of its valley - the highest parish in Austria and usually under a blanket of snow. and recently voted the most snow sure resort in Europe.

Obergurgl is great for beginners and intermediates, which, along with good ski schools, makes for an excellent family ski holiday destination

Although it's a small place, the village is split into three main parts. At the entrance to the resort is a cluster of hotels near the Festkogl gondola. The road then passes another group of hotels set on a little hill to the east, around the ice rink (beware steep, sometimes treacherous walks here). Finally you come to an attractive little square with the church, a fountain, and the focal hotel (Edelweiss und Gurgl).

Even higher Hochgurgl, linked by a mid-mountain gondola, is little more than a handful of hotels at the foot of its own area of slopes.