Val Gardena / Seiser Alm
Resorts / Selva di Val Gardena / Ortisei / Santa Cristina Valgardena (the three valley villages the ski area serves); nearest larger city is Bolzano/Bozen.

Val Gardena / Seiser Alm

Illustrative photograph — not necessarily this resort · Lars Böttcher / Pexels
1236–2518 m 175 km Piste length 79 Lifts

Val Gardena / Seiser Alm is an Alpine ski resort in Italy. Val Gardena / Seiser Alm spans from 1236 m to 2518 m above sea level. The published figures cover 175 km of piste and 79 lifts.

Typically early December to early April. Officially confirmed 2026-27 season for Val Gardena/Sellaronda lifts: 4 Dec 2026 - 4 Apr 2027 (val-gardena.com). No train station in the valley itself. Nearest stations: Ponte Gardena-Waidbruck (~18 km from Selva) and Bolzano (~40 km). Nearest airports: Bolzano Airport (small, limited routes, ~1h transfer), Innsbruck (~2h drive), Verona (~2h15 drive).

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, across Ortisei, Santa Cristina and Selva)
Terrain parks (Snowpark Sassolungo/Funpark Sassolungo; Snowpark Furdenan in Ortisei)
Ice rinks (Pranives arena in Selva; Setil ice rink in Ortisei; Iman Centre rink in Santa Cristina)

Notable lifts

Lift Type
Seceda cable car (Ortisei–Furnes–Seceda) cable car
Ciampinoi cableway (Selva–Ciampinoi) cable car
Dantercëpies gondola (Selva, Sellaronda connector) gondola
Col Raiser cable car (Santa Cristina–Col Raiser) cable car
Resciesa funicular (Ortisei–Resciesa) funicular
Saslong cable car (serving the Saslong World Cup downhill course) cable car

Equipment shops nearby

What the sources say

Every note below is drawn from the resort's own or an independent official publication.

Lift count varies by source: 79 lifts is the figure on the official Dolomiti Superski Val Gardena area page and trail-map PDF (used here); several third-party aggregator/booking sites (not official) quote 82-84, likely due to different area boundaries or including summer-only lifts.
Piste km also varies: some tourism-board pages loosely describe 'over 500 km' when conflating Val Gardena with adjacent connected Dolomiti Superski zones — this figure was not used because it does not match the official Val Gardena/Seiser Alm area-specific figure (175 km).
No officially published km-by-difficulty (green/blue/red/black) breakdown was located for Val Gardena specifically; left null.
Village base altitudes differ from the ski area's overall lowest lift point (1,236 m, near Ortisei/St. Ulrich): Selva sits at ~1,563 m and Santa Cristina at ~1,428 m.
Val Gardena has two village tourist offices (Selva and Ortisei) under the same valgardena.it organization; Selva's office is used here as primary contact since it's the more central/higher village, Ortisei office: +39 0471 777600, ortisei@valgardena.it.
Exact lift capacities (persons/hour, cabin size) were not consistently verifiable — Seceda's cabin capacity in particular is reported inconsistently across sources (6-8 person first section stated by one source, second-section cabin described elsewhere as holding anywhere from ~30 to ~60 standing passengers), so capacity_note is left null for all Val Gardena lifts rather than asserting a disputed figure.
Night skiing in Val Gardena could not be confirmed from available sources and is omitted rather than assumed.
Ice rink details come from a single aggregated source; worth re-verifying against gardenaseiseralm.com or valgardena.it directly if precision matters.