{"id":2239,"date":"2019-05-02T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ultimatesk2stg.wpengine.com\/ski-resorts\/austria\/mayrhofen"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:02:21","slug":"mayrhofen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/austria\/mayrhofen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayrhofen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just an hour or so from Innsbruck airport, with an almost traffic-free centre, and a solid track record as one of Austria’s key teaching resorts, Mayrhofen is a firm favourite for family-oriented ski trips. But it is a bit of a Jekyll\u00a0and Hyde character, because when its excellent\u00a0ski schools<\/a> and creche facilities are closing down, it’s lively alcohol-fuelled apr\u00e8s ski\u00a0is just getting started, and some of the clubs stay open virtually all night. But it’s quite a big resort with a wide range of accommodation<\/a> so on the whole these contrasting lifestyles co-exist pretty well together, and can even offer an ideal winter holiday solution for mixed groups with large age ranges.<\/p>\n

And everyone can enjoy Mayrhofen’s skiing. There are no runs back to the resort itself, which at 630m is too low, but much improved lifts whizz skiers up to and down from the surrounding Ahorn and Penken-Horberg sectors from where they can ski onto Rastkogel and Egalm. This ski area is high enough (the top lift reaches 2500m) large enough (139 km of pistes) and steep enough (red runs predominate but it is home to Austria’s steepest piste – Harakiri) to satisfy most skiers, particularly if they are long-lunchers or late-risers who want a holiday above all else.<\/p>\n

But their keener companions need not get frustrated, because Mayrhofen\u00a0is connected by bus to three other ski areas in the Zillertal valley. At its head is\u00a0Hintertux<\/a>, a glacier resort with interesting slopes as well as guaranteed snow. As Hintertux is only a 15 minute bus ride from the edge of the Mayrhofen ski domain, it’s easy to ski in both resorts, and the combined ski areas now even have a joint name: Zillertal 3000<\/strong>. And there are two further ski areas down the valley: the unpronounceable “Hochzillertal-Hochfugen-Spieljoch” and the more snappily named “Zillertal Arena” which consists of Zell am Ziller, Gerlos, K\u00f6nigsleiten, Wald und Krimml\/Hochkrimml. And if that sounds like a lot of skiing, that is entirely correct because the Zillertal valley has more pistes than any other valley in the world (580km in total), and you can ski it all on a Zillertal Superskipass, but it will take you much longer than a week.<\/p>\n

\n

Ultimate-Ski Guide to Mayrhofen<\/h3>\n