These ten ski resorts are all reachable from Chur by public transport. From family-friendly slopes to high-altitude runs, there's something for every skier. Whether you're after quiet pistes or lively après-ski villages, the Swiss rail network brings you close to the action.
The resorts below are sorted by travel time from Chur, to facilitate your planning. Make sure to visit the map, to explore thousands of destinations and activities, reachable from any starting point in Switzerland.
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Brambrüesch is a winter sports area a few minutes above Chur in Switzerland. The area combines skiing and snowboarding, sledging, winter hiking, snowshoeing and ski touring with cosy mountain restaurants and direct access to the Dreibündenstein plateau.
10 km
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Easy slopes: 2.4 km
Intermediate slopes: 5 km
Advanced slopes: 2.4 km| 11 (2m) | |
Arosa Lenzerheide is a ski area in Switzerland that links the two holiday regions of Arosa and Lenzerheide. The two areas are connected by the Urdenbahn cable car and offer a wide range of terrain for skiers and snowboarders of all levels.
160 km43Easy slopes: 35 kmIntermediate slopes: 20 kmAdvanced slopes: 7 km| 182 (17m) | |
Skilift Mastrils is a small, family-friendly ski area in the Bündner Rheintal, about 10 minutes from Landquart in the canton of Graubünden. A T-bar/platter lift serves two well-groomed and clearly laid-out runs with blue and red sections, making it especially suitable for families with children on skis or snowboards. At the base station there is a ticket office, the Skihüttli with food, and a ski storage room.
2 km1Easy slopes: 1.2 kmIntermediate slopes: 0.9 km| ICE (9m) | |
| 21 (10m) | |
Grüsch-Danusa is a family-friendly ski area in the Prättigau valley in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The area offers pistes from blue to black, two fun parks, a permanent race course, a ski and boarder cross and a large children's area. The centre of the area at 1,800 m above sea level is the Berghaus Schwänzelegg, the starting point for skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, winter hiking, snowshoeing and sledging.
22 km6
Lockers: YesEasy slopes: 2.2 kmIntermediate slopes: 16 kmAdvanced slopes: 3.4 km| S12 (8m) | |
| S2 (9m) | |
| 39 (4m) | |
Tschiertschen is a ski and winter sports area in the Tschiertschen-Praden holiday region in the Schanfigg valley of the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The ski area offers natural snow pistes away from the crowds, served by chairlifts, as well as a natural freestyle offering in the Natural Snowpark. Around Tschiertschen there are also numerous freeride slopes, winter hiking trails, snowshoe tours and a sledging run.
20 km5Easy slopes: 9 kmIntermediate slopes: 9 kmAdvanced slopes: 1.6 km| 42 (26m) | |
The Pizol ski area near Bad Ragaz in the canton of St. Gallen offers around 50 kilometres of groomed pistes served by twelve modern lifts. Runs range from gentle slopes for beginners and varied carving pistes to demanding descents for experts, complemented by the Riderpark between Gaffia and Furt. Thanks to the 4.0 snowmaking system, the main and connecting pistes are snow-sure from the start of the season until early April.
40 km12Lockers: YesEasy slopes: 16 kmIntermediate slopes: 14 kmAdvanced slopes: 6 km| S12 (14m) | |
| 457 (10m) | |
LAAX is a ski resort in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, part of the Flims Laax Falera destination, with slopes and lifts around Crap Sogn Gion, Crap Masegn, La Siala and the Vorab Glacier. It is known as a freestyle destination, with five snowparks, over 90 obstacles, the world's largest halfpipe and an Olympic-sized Pro Kicker Line. The resort also offers marked freeride routes secured by avalanche blasting and the Senda dil Dragun treetop path connecting Laax Murschetg and Laax Dorf.
130 km34Easy slopes: 60 kmIntermediate slopes: 45 kmAdvanced slopes: 12 km| 81 (27m) | |
Flensa-Seewis is a small ski area in Seewis in the Swiss canton of Graubünden with a ski lift and the Flensatappi, a practice lift for beginners. The pistes are prepared when there is sufficient snow at weekends and during the Christmas and sports holidays. The offering includes a Beizli with a terrace as well as events such as the Flensarennen, the Fassdaubenrennen and a torchlight descent with night skiing.
1.6 km1Easy slopes: 0.9 kmIntermediate slopes: 0.7 km| S12 (8m) | |
| S1 (8m) | |
| 201 (12m) | |
Flumserberg ski resort lies directly above Lake Walen in the canton of St. Gallen, between Zurich and Chur. It offers 65 kilometres of pistes for all levels, 17 modern lifts, three fun parks and two free practice areas at Prodalp and Tannenboden. Highlights include the challenging, ungroomed Terza descent and night skiing in the Flumserberg Galaxie.
60 km17Easy slopes: 3.2 kmIntermediate slopes: 6 km| IR35 (37m) | |
| 2790 (7m) | |
Hochwang – Goldgruben is a ski area on the sunny side of the Schanfigg valley between Chur and Arosa in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. A chairlift runs from the Fatschél valley station up to the Triemel sun terrace, from where a ski lift continues to Goldgruoba at 2280 m above sea level. Eleven groomed natural-snow pistes covering 25 km offer winter sports for families, freeriders, kiters, hikers and sledgers.
18 km4Easy slopes: 7 kmIntermediate slopes: 9 kmAdvanced slopes: 2 km| 41 (28m) | |
| 43 (15m) | |
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