Illustrative photograph — not necessarily this resort · Duc Tinh Ngo / Pexels
1224–2930 m120 km Piste length35 Lifts
Cortina d'Ampezzo is an Alpine ski resort in Italy. Cortina d'Ampezzo spans from 1224 m to 2930 m above sea level. The published figures cover 120 km of piste and 35 lifts.
Key facts
Altitude: 1,224–2,930 m above sea level
Pistes: 120 km
Lifts: 35
When does Cortina d'Ampezzo open?
Typically late November to early May. Officially confirmed 2025-26 season: 29 Nov 2025 - 3 May 2026 (skipasscortina.com).
How to get to Cortina d'Ampezzo
Nearest train station: Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina, ~35 km south, linked by the 'Cortina Express/Cortina Link' shuttle bus. Nearest airports: Venice Marco Polo (~148 km, ~2h15 by road) and Treviso Airport (~138 km, ~2h15 by road). No functioning airport in Cortina itself (the 1956 Olympics-era Cortina Airport is closed).
True cable cars (aerial tramways)
Gondolas and chairlifts are listed above under Notable lifts. These are specifically two-station reversible aerial tramways — a distinct lift type.
Funivia Faloria
Cortina d'Ampezzo (Crignes) → Rifugio Faloria
897 m · Vertical riseBuilt 1939rebuilt 1977
Freccia nel Cielo — Col Drusciè to Ra Valles
Col Drusciè → Ra Valles
693 m · Vertical riseBuilt 1997
strong single technical source (skiresort.com) for the 1997 build/80-person spec, corroborated only generically by other sources describing "two cable cars above Col Drusciè"
Freccia nel Cielo — Ra Valles to Tofana di Mezzo
Ra Valles → Tofana di Mezzo
left null rather than guessed; top-station coordinates are an OSM peak-node proxy, approximate
Resort map
Verified locations only: the resort area and its named cable car stations. We don't have precise coordinates for individual accommodation listings, so those aren't plotted here — use the booking link in the sidebar instead.
Amenities
Ski schools (multiple, e.g. Scuola Sci Cortina, Be Free)
Stadio Olimpico del Ghiaccio (Olympic ice stadium, public skating & curling)
Notable lifts
Lift
Type
Freccia nel Cielo / Col Drusciè–Ra Valles cable car (Tofana system)
cable car 80-person cabin (this is the mid segment of the multi-stage Freccia nel Cielo system from Cortina to Tofana; the top segment to Cima Tofana is not always open in winter)
Funivia Faloria (Cortina–Mandres–Faloria)
cable car 50-person cabin; original line has operated since 1939
Falzarego–Lagazuói cable car
cable car 50-person cabin
Cortina Skyline (Son dei Prade–Cianzopé–Bai de Dones, to Cinque Torri)
gondola 10-person cabins; approx. 4.6 km, ~15 min; opened 2021 with initial hourly capacity around 1,100 pers./hr, expandable toward 1,800 pers./hr
Every note below is drawn from the resort's own or an independent official publication.
Lift count discrepancy: skipasscortina.com and the official Dolomiti Superski 2025-26 Cortina trail-map PDF both state 35 lifts / 120 km, but the English Wikipedia infobox (likely reflecting an older count) states 27 lifts and only 33.5 km of lift length — used the two aligned official sources (35 lifts) as the reported figure.
No officially published km-by-difficulty-color (green/blue/red/black) breakdown was found. Wikipedia's infobox gives a non-color-coded 3-tier split (45 km 'easy' / 59 km 'intermediate' / 16 km 'difficult' = 120 km) sourced only to Wikipedia itself, not to an official resort publication, so it was NOT used to populate the green/blue/red/black fields (left null per the never-invent rule).
Cortina's 120 km figure is frequently quoted alongside Dolomiti Superski's whole-network 1,200+ km figure in marketing materials; the two must not be conflated.
Lift names/types/capacities corroborated mainly via the skiresort.com/skiresort.info aggregator family plus resort/consortium sites (freccianelcielo.com, cortinadelicious.it, impianticortina.it, leitner.com); treat this as largely one data lineage rather than fully independent double-sourcing for exact pph figures.
Whether the top Ra Valles–Cima Tofana cable car segment runs in winter is disputed across sources; noted rather than asserted.
Sources conflict on whether Cortina has a dedicated snowpark/terrain park (one aggregator says 'no snowpark', while 'Cortina Snowpark' is listed as a local operator on dolomiti.org) — omitted from amenities pending clearer confirmation rather than guessed.
Night skiing at Cortina could not be confirmed from available sources and is left out rather than assumed.
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