About the area
Planai & Hochwurzen in Styria is a mid-sized area of about 65 km, and the split tells you who it is for: roughly 29 km blue and 30 km red, with only 4 km of black (6%). Beginners and families are the clear fit — 47% of the pistes are green or blue, that is 31 km of easy terrain, and five magic carpets handle first turns. Experts will run out of steep quickly; with 6% black, this is not a place to plan a week of hard skiing.
The 26 lifts include seven gondolas or cable cars and a funicular, so small children can be loaded without a chairlift; eight chairlifts and three platters cover the rest. Skiing runs from 742 m at the valley to 1,900 m at the top, so the upper slopes hold snow better than the low valley returns.
At a glance
- Pistes
- 65 km · official 123
- Lifts
- 26 · official 44
- Altitude
- 742–1900 m
- Vertical
- 1158 m
- Runs
- 122
- Longest run
- 4.4 km
- Biggest vertical on one run
- 1078 m
- Night skiing
- 2.6 km
- Magic carpets
- 5
- Gondolas & cable cars
- 7
- Bubble/heated lifts
- 14
- Nursery runs at lift bases
- 18
Measured on OpenStreetMap data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via OpenSkiMap. Computed 2026-09-09. Official figures may differ.
Official sitePistes by difficulty
- Green1.2 km
- Blue29.3 km
- Red30.3 km
- Black3.8 km
- Unclassified0.9 km
Lifts by type
- 8Chairlift
- 7Gondola
- 5Magic carpet
- 3Button lift
- 1T-bar
- 1Funicular
- 1Mixed lift
Who should come here
Who should come here
Computed from the terrain itself — not a house opinion.
Beginners
yes
- · 47% of pistes are green/blue (31 km)
- · 6% are black/expert/freeride
- · 5 magic carpets for first steps
- · 18 short easy runs next to a lift base
Families
yes
- · 5 magic carpets
- · 7 gondola/cable-car lifts (no chairlift loading for small kids)
- · a base within walking distance of the lifts
Experts
not really
- · 4 km black/expert/freeride (6%)
- · longest vertical on one run 1078 m
Best forbeginnersfamiliesintermediates
Where to stay
Villages and towns with lifts to this area, and cheaper towns down the valley.
At the lifts
Cheaper, down the valley
Real towns with beds, food and shops, close enough to ski from.