Garmisch, Germany's premier winter sports center, was the site of the 1936 Winter Olympics. At the top of Garmisch is the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain (2,966m/9,730'), which borders Austria. Skiing on the glacier there is accessed either by a cog railway or aerial tram.
Alpine skiing with a uniquely German flavour, Garmisch has facilities which would make even Aspen blush. This is the place where they have the ski jumping every New Year's Day. There's the majestic Zugspitze and over 4000 vertical feet of skiing, with terrain for all abilities. Add to that an incredible range of of-slope facilities include a public swimming complex with big pool, wave machine, water slides, diving pool, sauna, solarium; an Olympic sized indoor ice rink (with five rinks to choose from within) plus various theatres, concert halls, over 100 restaurants, even more shops... you would have to work hard to go wrong.
The skiing -- there are nearly 200 miles of trails for all standards in the area, spreads across a dozen resorts on the delightfully named Happy Ski Card which stretches over the Austrian border. Despite the big numbers this is not 'skiing without frontiers' in quite the same way as it is at many big French ski areas, we're talking a lot of moderately sized ski areas and a bus ride between each. Still, on the way you'll pass fairy tale castles that not even Walt Disney could match.
| Vertical Drop: | 4431 ft
| Half Pipes: | 1 |
| Top Elevation: | 9288 ft | Snowmaking:
| 25% |
Skiable Acres:
| - | Total:
| 39km |
| Trails: | 42 | Restaurants:
| 180 |
| Lifts: | 33 | | |
Cable cars:
| 7 | | |
Източник:
www.goski.com 
