Skiing on the Alpe di Siusi (Seiser Alm): slopes, gondola and road rules

Figures and altitudes

The Alpe di Siusi website gives the figures for the plateau: 62 km of slopes and 22 lifts. Together with Val Gardena the zone reaches 181 km and 79 lifts, the same figures used on the Val Gardena website.

Nobody publishes a single altitude range for the plateau. In the Dolomiti Superski lift data, among the chairlifts with an altitude on record, the lowest station is the Floralpina at Saltria, at 1,684 m, and the highest top station is the Punta d'Oro (Goldknopf), at 2,209 m. The gondola leaves Siusi at 1,015 m and arrives at Compaccio at 1,857 m; the one from Ortisei reaches the plateau at 2,010 m. Castelrotto also has a drag lift in the village, which is not part of these figures.

The South Tyrol Open Data Hub has two records for this zone, and both combine Val Gardena and Alpe di Siusi: one with 175 km and 81 lifts, the other with 181 km and 80, with altitudes from 1,220 or 1,236 m up to about 2,520 m. These are the figures in the verified data box, and they apply to the whole zone, not to the plateau alone.

• Alpe di Siusi: 62 km of slopes, 22 lifts
• Zone including Val Gardena: 181 km, 79 lifts
• 2026/27 season for the zone: 4 December 2026 to 4 April 2027
• Siusi-Compaccio gondola: 5 December 2026 to 4 April 2027, 8 am to 6 pm

The slopes and who they suit

In the Dolomiti Superski list, nearly all the plateau slopes are easy or intermediate and take their names from the lifts: Spitzbühl, Laurin, Panorama, Paradiso, Punta d'Oro, Floralpina, Florian, Mezdì, Sanon, Monte Piz, Steger, Bamby, Euro and Bullaccia (Puflatsch). There are only a few difficult ones: the Mezdì, the Puflatsch Race and the Puflatsch Freccia on the Bullaccia, and the speed-trap section at the Punta d'Oro.

The Alpe di Siusi website counts 3 drag lifts, 16 chairlifts (6 fixed-grip and 10 detachable), one Telemix lift and 2 bicable gondolas, plus conveyor belts and small lifts. All lifts have child safety systems.

For an easy day there is the Alpe di Siusi Ronda, a family circuit with seven stations (snow park, children's fun park, timed runs and speed measurement) that you can start from the gondola or from Ortisei. Strong skiers looking for steeper terrain head down to Val Gardena: the links are at the bottom of the page.

Getting there, the road and where to park

By car, leave the A22 at Chiusa (exit Chiusa-Alpe di Siusi/Altipiano dello Sciliar): from there it is 17 km to Castelrotto and 18 km to Siusi allo Sciliar. From Bolzano, Chiusa and Bressanone the villages of the area are 30 to 50 minutes away, by bus as well.

The gondola's valley station is in Siusi allo Sciliar, at Via Sciliar 39. Next to it there is a large free open-air car park, where overnight parking is not allowed, and two paid multi-storey car parks, the Walderer and the valley station one, where you can leave the car for several days. The gondola takes you to Compaccio in 15 minutes, with skis, sledge, snowshoes and pushchair.

The road to the plateau: while the gondola is running, private cars may not drive up to Compaccio between 9 am and 5 pm; driving down is always allowed. On the plateau there are two paid car parks, P1 Spitzbühl and P2 Compaccio, which since 29 June 2026 must be booked online, up to six days ahead; if both are full before 9 am, the San Valentino checkpoint closes. The official website does not give different rules for winter. If you stay in accommodation on the plateau, your host issues a permit. The details are in our guide to access to the Alpe di Siusi.

Without a car: in winter, shuttle lines 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 run from the villages to the gondola, but only for guests of member accommodation; bus 172 links the gondola with Siusi, Castelrotto and Val Gardena. The Seiser Alm Express (line 10) climbs from Castelrotto to the plateau for anyone who would rather avoid the gondola, at the same price. The ski pass is valid only on the lifts, not on shuttles or scheduled buses.

Ski pass

There is no separate pass for the plateau: since the two areas merged you buy either the Val Gardena/Alpe di Siusi pass, valid on the 79 lifts of the zone, or the Dolomiti Superski pass, valid in all twelve zones and needed for the Sellaronda. Both include the Siusi gondola, up and down. For cross-country only there is the Nordic Pass, for sledging and walking the Combi Card; both include the gondola too.

The valley station has ticket offices, pick-up boxes for passes bought online (there is one at the Compaccio ski pass office too) and card-only vending machines selling 1 to 7-day passes for adults, juniors and seniors. Free children's passes are issued only at the ticket offices, on showing the child's ID. Buying online at least two days ahead gives you 5% off.

Discounts: children born between 2018 and 2022 ski free with an adult who buys an identical pass at the same time (one per adult), otherwise half price; juniors born between 2008 and 2017 get 30% off; seniors born in 1960 or earlier get 10%. Prices are published by Dolomiti Superski: the overview is in our ski pass guide, and there is a separate page on the refunds agreed with the competition authority.

A helmet is compulsory for everyone on the slopes and in the snow parks, and you need third-party liability insurance that covers skiing.

Beginners, children and snow parks

The Alpe di Siusi website presents the area as one of the most family-friendly in South Tyrol: easy to intermediate slopes, ski schools with a Skikindergarten and childcare, and lessons for adults too. The Panorama slope and Spitzbühl have timed courses, the Punta d'Oro has a speed measurement point, the Euro lift has the Europark fun park and the Spitzbühl chairlift a children's fun park. At the Bambylift a self-timer films your run, which you can watch on skiline.cc with your ski pass number.

The Alpe di Siusi Snowpark stretches along a 1.5 km Park Line with around 40 features. The upper part has the Easy Family Line and the Medium Line, suitable for first-timers; further down are the lines for experienced riders, with demanding kickers. There is also a Wood Line with features made entirely of wood.

Since December 2025 the Ronda has also had an app-based escape game in two versions: one for families with children aged 8 to 12, one for teenagers from 13 and adults.

Beyond downhill skiing

Cross-country: 80 km of trails and loops between 1,800 and 2,200 m, with the Nordic Pass including the gondola. An 8 km link trail, rated difficult, climbs from Monte Pana in Val Gardena. The wider picture is on our cross-country and sledging page.

Snowshoeing and walking: you can use the groomed winter paths on the plateau, and mountain guides run weekly guided snowshoe walks. There are also sledge runs and horse-drawn sleigh rides. If you go up without skis, the right gondola ticket is the Combi Card.

Days without skis on the plateau are covered in our guide to the Alpe di Siusi in winter; rules and ideas for snowshoeing are on the snowshoeing page.

Links to Val Gardena and beyond

Two links lead to Val Gardena: the gondola between the plateau and Ortisei, which you can ride up and down (the Mezdì-Cabinovia Ortisei slope ends at its top station), and the ski bus from Saltria to Monte Pana, above Santa Cristina. The Alpe di Siusi/Val Gardena Ronda, 25 km of slopes clockwise or anticlockwise, takes you round both parts in a day.

For the Sellaronda, the Alpe di Siusi website suggests taking the ski bus from Saltria to Monte Pana and putting your skis on there. You need the Dolomiti Superski pass, and it is worth reading our Sellaronda guide first. There is also the Rosengarten Ronda, 35 km with several black runs, which starts from Tires and passes through Carezza, Val di Fassa and Val Gardena before returning to the plateau.

For a comparison with the other zones, see the guide to the Dolomites ski areas.