Tyrol · Austria · ski area
Hintertuxer Gletscher ski resort · slopes, lifts & elevation
Hintertuxer Gletscher is a ski area in Tyrol, Austria with 47 km of mapped downhill runs and 22 lifts, between 1,499 m and 3,245 m above sea level.
- Downhill runs
- 47 km
- Lifts
- 22
- Top elevation
- 3,245 m
- Vertical drop
- 1,746 m
- Nearest airport
- INN · 31 km
Slopes by difficulty
89 runs mapped in OpenStreetMap, 17 km with snowmaking. Colours follow the European piste convention.
Ski lifts
- 7 T-bars
- 6 Gondolas
- 6 Chairlifts
- 1 Button lifts
- 1 Drag lifts
- 1 Magic carpets
Hintertuxer Gletscher is a ski area in Tyrol, Austria. Its 89 mapped downhill runs add up to 47 km, which ranks it #37 of 324 ski areas in Austria and gives it 0.7% of all the country's slopes. The average run is about 529 m long.
Slopes at Hintertuxer Gletscher
About 37% of the slopes are beginner or easy runs, 54% intermediate and 6% advanced or expert, which makes Hintertuxer Gletscher a balanced resort for intermediate skiers. 17.4 km (37%) of the runs have snowmaking, which helps early and late in the season.
Lifts and elevation
The resort has 22 lifts: 7 t-bars, 6 gondolas, 6 chairlifts, 1 button lift, 1 drag lift, 1 magic carpet. Most of them are chairlifts or gondolas, so you ride seated. Skiing runs from 1,499 m up to 3,245 m, a vertical drop of 1,746 m — the kind of long descents found in big Alpine-style resorts. The high top station usually means reliable snow well into spring.
Getting to Hintertuxer Gletscher
The nearest airport is Innsbruck Airport (INN), about 31 km away in a straight line — roughly 40 minutes by car; Bolzano Airport (BZO) is 75 km away. Nearby ski areas include Grünberglift Navis (1.3 km), Skilift Floiten Ginzling (0.2 km), Mayrhofen Hippach (108.0 km) and Bergeralm (16.9 km), which together add 146 km of slopes for a multi-resort trip.
Nearest airports to Hintertuxer Gletscher
- 1 INN31 kmstraight line
- 2 BZO75 kmstraight line
- 3 SZG128 kmstraight line
- 4 MUC141 kmstraight line
Bolzano (BZ), Italy
Munich, GermanyNearby
Ski resorts near Hintertuxer Gletscher
- 10 kmGrünberglift Navis1.3 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 1,576 m
- 11 kmSkilift Floiten Ginzling0.2 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 1,024 m
- 13 kmMayrhofen Hippach108 km of slopes · 54 lifts · up to 2,468 m
- 16 kmBergeralm17 km of slopes · 7 lifts · up to 2,174 m
- 19 kmGlungezer13 km of slopes · 6 lifts · up to 2,297 m
- 21 kmSerlesbahnen5.9 km of slopes · 4 lifts · up to 1,680 m
- 21 kmWildstättlift Wattenberg0.4 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 1,317 m
- 21 kmPatscherkofel Ski12 km of slopes · 6 lifts · up to 1,960 m
- 21 kmVögelsberg - Wattens0.6 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 969 m
- 22 kmKolsassberg0.6 km of slopes · 1 lift · up to 846 m
- 22 kmGerlosstein / Hainzenberg7.8 km of slopes · 6 lifts · up to 1,830 m
- 22 kmHochzillertal-Hochfügen81 km of slopes · 35 lifts · up to 2,373 m
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Data: OpenSkiMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors & Skimap.org (ODbL 1.0). Run lengths are measured along mapped pistes; resorts may publish different figures.