Lech ski resort guide & reviews Arlberg ski area, apres-ski, things to see & do in Lech

Overview

The modern day Lech ski resort started life as an old farming village and it wasnt until the early 20th century that skiing started to blossom. Sitting at 1,442m in the isolated Lech valley, the village used be regularly cut off from the outside world through the extensive snow falls that regularly hit this area. However, in 1940 the high mountain Flexen Pass road was completed linking the resorts of Warth, Lech, and Zürs in the upper Lech Valley with the Klostertal near Stuben on the St Anton side.

Après-ski

Being a chic and sophisticated ski resort, Lech boasts a number of upmarket restaurants and trendy bars with the hotels providing their fair share of evening entertainment. When your clientele list includes Royalty and A-list celebrities, expect to find going out a little more expensive than your usual ski resort.

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Key information (whole area)
Altitude 1450m
Top lift 2450m
Family
Beginner
Intermediate
Expert
Piste (km) 305
Longest run km
Off piste
Cross country 10 km
Season Nov - April
Snowboard parks 4
Heli Skiing
Summer skiing
Glacier skiing
Babysitting
Creche
Apres ski Sophisticated

Lech ski area guide

The Arlberg ski area is vast with a whopping 305kms of lift-linked pistes connecting 6 ski resorts. The local ski area of Lech has 180kms of pistes and includes the smaller ski resort of Zürs and Warth-Schröcken via the Auenfeldjet gondola.

In the winter of 2016, the Flexenbahn 10-seater cable car became operational linking Zürs with Stuben which is lift-linked to St Anton. This side of the Arlberg which include St Christoph ski resort provides a further 125kms of pistes and all covered by the Arlberg Lift Pass.

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Beginners

New comers to the sport are well catered for with a beginners area that links into some gentle blue pistes.

Intermediate

The Lech ski area is ideal for a weeks ski holiday for intermediate skiers and boarders with plenty of blue and red pistes across the local area. For touring, you can now ski over to St Anton but leave plenty of time to get back.

Advanced

Lech and Zurs provide plenty of challenging terrain and across the Alberg ski area, there is over 200kms of off-piste itineraries. One of the classic tours is the 85km "White Ring" which takes you around a loop of the Lech ski area.

On top of all that Lech and Zürs are the only ski holiday resorts in Austria offering heli-skiing - for advanced skiers and boarders this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Cross country

There are 10km of cross-country and skating trails around Lech.

things to see & do in Lech

For those days where you simply dont want to put skis on, there are plenty of other activities to hand...

  • Tobogganning
  • Snowshoeing
  • Spa
  • Fun park
  • Heli-skiing
  • Paragliding
  • Ice climbing

Families & Kid's Clubs

Lech provides top-class activity programmes, family-friendly accommodation and amenities such as day nurseries and babysitting services.

During the winter, there’s a kids’ club in Oberlech, and Goldener Berg hotel has an in-house kindergarten.

Featured ski chalets

Lech has made sure the old and the new blend together with high quality chalets and apartments built from local materials. The result is stunning design and facilities that cater for the sophisticated traveller. Just off the top of the main cable car is Oberlech - a small, traffic-free hamlet with the slopes dotted with more traditional chalets. The beauty of Oberlech is that the pistes run through the village making it ski-in, ski-out.


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Our View on Lech ski resort

Skiing in Lech on a sunny day takes some beating. Fantastic views of the surrunding peaks, great mountain restaurants and excellent ski touring opportunities. If you like Lech, you may also want to look at Gstaad in Switzerland which also attracts the world's rich and famous.