Active in Winter

This is where you can find all the information you need about the lifts and the condition of the trails and pistes in ArberLand. For alpine skiing, tobogganing, cross country skiing, snow shoe walking – the snow report gives

For ski and snowboard, for adults and children, for racers, carvers and enjoyers. The ski regions in the ARBERLAND offer diversion and a lot of space on the slopes. Großer Arber, Geißkopf and Pröller ski triangle are popular adresses for wintersport in the Bavarian Forest.

The ARBERLAND provides a broad variety of ski and snowboard tracks for every niveau: From beginners over andvanced learners up to professionals - all types of wintersport enthusiasts can find the perfect tracks. Prepared slopes or deep powder snow, family friendly hills or black ski runs - the ARBERLAND fulfills all kinds of winter dreams. So nothing can stop the fun on the tracks at the Bavarian Forest.

Snowshoe hikes and ski tours are fascinating. So are long-distance cross country tours in snow-covered forests. Our GPS-tours help you find your way - even in snowy weather. Enjoy the solitude of snow-covered mountains and keep your orientation at all time. Download now for free and you are good to go.

Cross country skiing and skating in the ARBERLAND - Here you can find your personal rythm! You prefer the skating technique or the classic way - cross country skiing is a special pleasure at the ARBERLAND in every technique. Over 600 km prepared tracks lead you through the cold half of the year.

The sun blazes from the blue sky. It makes the snow-covered valley, deeply snowy forest and frozen lakes glitter. The air is clear and icy. Only the crunching of the boots in the snow can be heard. As soon as the "Woid" (the Bavarian word for forest) has put on its winter coat of ice and snow, it presents itself in a new light. To explore this at a winter hiking tour is always a very special pleasure.

On your own initiative, with professional guidance or on a tour with the GPS device: Snowshoe hiking offers many different possibilities. In the ARBERLAND Bavarian Forest it is just fun: With music, with torches - and as a reward also with a shot.

Magdalena Neuner, Uschi Disl or Michael Greis: The success of German athletes has inspired the enthusiasm for biathlon in many winter sportsperson. At the foot of the Große Arber the Hohenzollern Ski Stadium makes it possible for people on holiday to be a biathlete.

Traditional wood sleighs, plastics bobs, bobsleighs from Davos, Zipflbobs, racer and woks: sleighing and sledding offers many different possibilities. So does the Bavarian Forest: From flat hills for the first, childish tries up to kilometerlong chuts - in the ARBERLAND all friends of sledding get their money's worth.

At the Ice rink Regen in the ARBERLAND Bavarian Forest people on holiday and locals can hover over the ice on skids themselves and experience hot action when the ice hokey professionals of the Red Dragons hunt for the puck.

One of the traditional and oldest types of wintersport is the Bavarian curling. The clubs in the ARBERLAND are known for their sensitiveness and are not for nothing at the first places at national and international competitions.