Lech and Zurs Snow Skiing Resort In Austria, Ski Resort

Lech and Zurs Offer Award Winning Skiing

Lech and Zurs are a part of the Arlberg but a world apart in many ways. Stunningly beautiful, with classic chalets and five-star hotels, Zürs is on the Flexen-Pass and Lech in a valley just a couple of miles away. These stylish Austrian Alpine resorts nestle near the slopes of the Madloch, Trittkopf, and Kriegerhorn which offer skiing for all abilities. Lech and Zürs have been consistently voted the best skiing area in the world.

Lech consists of different districts each with their own special appeal: Oberlech, Stubenbach, Dorf, Anger, Omesberg, Tannberg, Strass, Zürs and Zug. Zug and Zürs form a large ski region with a variety of pistes which reach the hotel door. Zürs has twenty two exclusive hotels and guest houses and is surrounded by mountains with guaranteed snow. It is popularly known as the Mecca of Alpine powder snow skiing. Children are well looked after in the "Little Zürs" nursery.

Lech is less glitzy and has a comfortably, welcoming atmosphere. Between them the resorts offer every thing you may crave for on a skiing vacation: tranquility, apres-ski and endless skiing. There is a free skibus running between the towns.

With 84 cable cars and lifts to the three mountains which offer over 260 km of well-tended pistes and 180 km of open slopes, there is plenty of variety for every level of skiing. Snowboarders can freak out at the Fun Park.With 26 km of cross country tracks, 15 km of winter hiking trails, horse-drawn sleigh rides and a natural toboggan run that is floodlit in the evenings, there is plenty else happening too. Apres-ski is exciting with open-air snow bars, indoor bars and dancing after a day on the slopes.

Oberlech, a satellite resort perched above Lech is a traffic-free zone thanks to the tunnel system. An excellent family resort it is known as the "sun terrace of the Arlberg" and can be reached only by cable car or by skiing. Oberlech gives you access to whole new area with otstanding skiingof all levels. Oberlech offers guests excellent child care service, free of cost to hotel guests at the "Kinderland Oberlech." Everyone can have their own kind of fun here in a pollution free sparkling Alpine resort!