Silvretta Montafon Ski Resort

The Silvretta Montafon ski resort was actually created in 2008 with the fusion of the Hochjoch ski area above Schruns and the Silvretta Nova ski area above the villages of Gaschurn and St Gallenkirch.

The town of Schruns is the most accessible from the fast dual carriageway running east from Bludenz up to the Arlberg Pass and the border with the neighbouring province of Tyrol. It features in the works of Ernest Hemingway from the time he spent writing (and skiing) there in the 1920s.

The major regional town of Bludenz is only a few kilometres from Schruns and provides access to the main Austrian rail network.

There are various points of access to the skiing in Silvretta Montafon and all of them have accommodation options at the base of the lifts.

Schruns is the largest town with a wide choice of hotels and guesthouses, while the smaller hamlets of St Gallenkirch and Gaschurn provide quieter options for a winter break.

Details of accommodation in the Silvretta Montafon villages in the connected ski area can be found on this page:

The skiing in the Silvretta Montafon region is unexpectedly extensive. While it is clearly not as big as places like the Arlberg ski area just over the mountains in the Tyrol, the connections between what were once two separate ski operations now puts it firmly in the top 20 in terms of Austrian ski regions by size and it is the second largest ski area in the Vorarlberg..