Explore 4 ski resorts in Germany. Every card links to a full resort page with pictures, terrain and the numbers; the arrow opens the description without leaving this page.
Lenggries is one of the most traditional holiday villages in Bavaria and Brauneck above it has been drawing regulars for generations. Munich is sixty kilometres away, which makes this one of the first mountains that city reaches for. The terrain is more varied than the modest height suggests, with plenty of runs down the front face and a long descent back to the valley when the snow reaches that far. It suits families and confident intermediates. The area is easy to reach by train from Munich in around an hour, so a car is unnecessary. Weekends fill with day traffic and midweek is quiet. Lenggries itself has guesthouses, beer and an ordinary Bavarian life going on around the tourism.
The biggest ski area in the Black Forest and the highest mountain in Germany outside the Alps, around an hour from Freiburg and reachable by train and bus. The terrain is gentle and open with a large number of lifts across a broad summit area, and the whole thing is well set up for families and beginners. The Feldberg has a long history in German skiing, with organised skiing here going back to the 1890s. The surrounding Black Forest has an extensive cross country network and a strong food tradition. Basel and Zurich are both within a couple of hours.
A cross border area above Oberstdorf in the Bavarian Allgäu, with the Fellhorn on the German side and the Kanzelwand across the frontier in the Kleinwalsertal in Austria, joined at the top so you ski between two countries through the day. The terrain is wide and sunny and mainly intermediate with a good vertical and long descents on both sides. The Fellhorn is known for the alpine roses that cover it in summer and for the view across to the Allgäu peaks. Oberstdorf is a substantial town with a railway station, ski jumps that host the Four Hills Tournament every New Year, and a good food scene. It works very well without a car. Munich is around two hours away by train.
One of the largest ski areas in Bavaria, an hour from Munich, above the village of Bayrischzell in the Mangfall mountains. Its closeness to the city is the defining fact, since a great many Münchner learned to ski here. The area was extensively modernised with new lifts and snowmaking, which addressed the main weakness of a resort at this altitude. The terrain is broad and mostly intermediate with a good snowpark and a long descent back to the valley. Weekends are busy with day traffic from the city, so midweek is calmer. Bayrischzell itself is a pleasant Bavarian village with guesthouses and beer, and the Wendelstein cog railway nearby is worth a trip for the view.
