Snowboarding in Austria

Austria has a long history of welcoming boarders to its slopes, and offers a wide choice of ski areas and resorts for visitors each year. Known for its traditional charm and laid-back style, snowboarding in Austria attracts regular visitors to its world-class resorts such as Mayrhofen and St. Anton, with many returning each year to experience the extensive terrain full of well-groomed runs, and enjoy the country's vast arena for freeriding.

 

An established region for both skiing and boarding, there are plenty of choices throughout the country, with the most popular site for a snowboarding holiday in Austria being the Tyrolean area, lying close to the Swiss border. St. Anton is a true British favourite for snowboarding in Austria, with challenging riding to suit intermediate and advanced levels, and features steep chutes, deep powder bowls and plenty of natural obstacles to navigate. Lech and Zurs are known for their fantastic terrain and abundance of powder, and offer quieter slopes packed with guaranteed snow whilst snowboarding in Austria. There's also a good range of snowparks throughout the region, with resorts such as Mayrhofen, Ischgl and Saalbach-Hinterglemm known for their fantastic terrain parks full of pipes, jumps and rails.

 

With a lively yet down-to-earth après-ski scene, snowboarding in Austria offers something for everyone, and involves plenty of beer and schapps-fuelled partying as well as a more relaxed local scene. Although some of the country's peaks are lower than some others in Europe, snowboarding in Austria offers reliable good conditions, thanks to the extensive snowmaking that most of the resorts have invested in.