 Ski and snowboarding holidays in Italy
For a snowboarding holiday, Italy is number one for complete choice and range of boarding, suiting beginners to experts. For your snowboarding holiday, Italy can provide some of the best European ski areas and purpose built resorts in the world. The Alpine range is vast and this means you will never be bored when boarding in Italy.
Snowboarding holiday in Italy - Highlights
- Host to the 2005 / 2006 Winter Olympics
- Uncrowded slopes - particularly during the weekdays
- Great snow record for reliable boarding runs
- Large choice of stylish chalets and apartments
- Quality and choice for dining out - great food - warm service
- Plenty of apres ski with something to suit all tastes
- Loads of choice for extra activities
Key resorts - Your perfect skiing & boarding holiday in Italy
Arabba
Above or below trees, on or off-piste, Arabba is great fun for boarders. A terrain park just over the hill in the Belvedere bowl towards Canazei will cater for the advanced, while intermediates will enjoy eating up the miles of the Dolomiti Superski area.
Bardonecchia
Jafferau offers some good open runs on a mountain that also boasts the fame of hosting locations for the World Cup.. The real jewel in the crown of this resort, however is the Olympic halfpipe, now open to the public. This is a full on superpipe, and not for beginners! There is also a new extensive terrain park with an excellent selection of rails, kickers and features to play on.
Canazei / Campitello
The area is fantastic for high-speed carving and piste exploration. There is plenty of opportunity for finding powder boarding and there is a terrain park above Canazei. The Dolomites are a pisted paradise where you can enjoy well groomed, fast carving above and below the trees on wide and varied slopes.
Corvara
A mixture of wide pistes above the tree-line, beautiful wooded runs back to resort, marks this area as particularly suited to intermediate boarders, looking to explore the piste areas. High altitude skiing that rarely dips below 1500m and a good snow record means very reliable snow conditions.
Courmayeur
If you are new to the sport, the wide easy nursery slopes will soon be a memory as you quickly progress onto more challenging blues higher up the mountain. For freeriders there is off-piste and powder boarding galore over on the Mont Blanc side of the valley.
La Thuile
The long undulating red and blue runs above the tree-line make excellent terrain for beginner and advanced boarders alike. A very up-and-coming resort offering long runs, breathtaking scenery and an excellent snow record. La Thuile's ski area is combined with La Rosière, both of which are covered by the one lift pass, just over the border in France. The lift system is so good that queuing is almost unknown and the slopes are very quiet indeed.
Passo Tonale
The wide open slopes will be appreciated by boarders still getting their turns sorted while more experienced riders will eat up the miles between Tonale and Ponte Dilegno, before heading for the terrain park and the challenge of new tricks.
Sauze d'Oulx
The vast Milky Way ski area offers mile after mile of ideal boarding terrain. There is a snowboard park in neighbouring Sestriere. Sauze has a very good snowboarding school.
Selva / St Cristina
The modern lift system is particularly boarder friendly with all the main lifts out of resort being either chairs or gondolas. The pistes on the whole are wide and above the trees, and drag lifts are minimal. The Sella Ronda does have one or two flatter sections that might require a short walk between lifts.
Sestriere
Beginners will love the wide open runs above the tree-line and gentle nursery slopes on Sestriere's sunny plateau. Improvers can head to the top of Banchetta for some high speed runs right down to Borgata before the vast Milky Way calls you to explore its endless slopes. |
