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The Zillertal Arena is a winter sports area and the largest ski area in the Zillertal valley in Austria. It has 163 kilometres of piste and 50 lifts that can transport 76,000 people every hour. It consists of two parts: one with valley lifts from Zell, Gerlos and Königsleiten and anothern with valley lifts from Ramsau and Hainzenberg.
The Zillertal Arena was formed in 2000 from a merger of the ski areas of Zell, Gerlos and Königsleiten and is the largest ski area in the Ziller valley. It is accessed by the Rosenalmbahn and, since the 2010/11 season, by the Karspitzbahn, whose valley station is located in the parish of Zell.
The large ski areas in the Austrian Alps have 50 or more different lifts and sometimes more than 100 km of groomed slopes. However, these are often not connected and can only be reached by bus. The Ski amadé network in the province of Salzburg, for example, has 860 kilometres of pistes and 270 lifts, but they are spread over 25 villages in an ...
St Anton sits in the Arlberg ski region – the largest interconnected region in Austria – and is one of eight resorts in the area. With over 300km of slopes available to visitors (and an ...
Following a phase of mergers by building connecting lifts during the 1990s and early 2000s, there are now four big ski areas, the largest of which is the Zillertal Arena, and three smaller satellite areas in the valley. Combined, they offer a total of more than 170 lifts and more than 630 km of downhill slopes.
The railway runs between Jenbach and Mayrhofen itself, and there are several intermediate stations, which provide access to many of the valley's well known ski areas, namely Zell am Ziller (Zillertal 3000), Fügen (Spieljoch) and Uderns (for the Hochfügen and Kaltenbach ski areas). The railway operates year-round, although in summer additional ...
Gerlos is a municipality with 793 inhabitants [3] (as of Jan. 2019) in Schwaz district of the Austrian state of Tyrol.The village is popular with skiing tourists, mainly families, as there is easy access to Zillertal Arena Centre on Isskogel.
The Harakiri is a slope in the ski resort of Mayrhofen Ski Zillertal 3000. It is named after the Japanese vulgar term for seppuku, ritual suicide by samurai. With incline of up to 78%, vertical drop of 375 metres and a length of about 1500 metres, it is the steepest groomed slope in Austria. Thus the slope is steeper than the initial trace of a ...