Davos has a secure place in the history of winter sports as the world's first surface lift opened here in the early 1930's. It has continously improved year after year to remain one of the world's best. This cosmopolitan town is also home to a number of world class medical institutions and hosts world leaders at the annual World Economic Forum. The many facets of this remarkable resort mean that marketing slogans such as "Europe's most extensive alpine resort" are not far fetched.
The town spreads along the valley floor for several miles with the more concentrated western section named Davos Platz, and the eastern side Davos Dorf.
The 315 km (nearly 200 miles) of ski trails above Davos is divided into seven areas (Parsenn, Pischa, Strela-Schatzalp, Rinerhorn, Madrisa and Gotschna), and some of them lift-linked. The Parsenn area is the largest and most popular. It is lift linked to the neighboring resort of Klosters, a traditional favorite of the British Royal family.
Because Davos is so popular, and the access lifts from Dorf and Platz are both funicular railways without huge uplift capacities, there can be long waits to get onto the slopes. On the other side of town there are more ways up the Jakobshorn, the resort's "fun mountain." Most of the ski areas are reached by funiculars or cable cars with the vast majority of the skiing above the treeline and 1800 meters.
Most of the trails are red and blue but experts will find several off-piste routes, including an 18 km (11 mile) descent to Fideris and the chance to ski over to Arosa in the century-old footsteps (or perhaps "ski tracks") of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
| Vertical Drop: | 4214 ft
| Half Pipes: | 2 |
| Top Elevation: | 9334 ft | Snowmaking:
| 5% |
Skiable Acres:
| - | Total:
| 75km |
| Trails: | 106 | Restaurants:
| 100 |
| Lifts: | 54 | | |
Cable cars:
| 15 | | |
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