Damüls-Mellau is a ski area in Vorarlberg, Austria. It is most popular for its snow safety. In 2006, the village Damüls was awarded the honorary title 'snowiest village of the world'.[1]
The ski area Damüls-Mellau extends at an altitude between 700 m (village Mellau) and 2,050 m (mountain station Ragazer Blanken) in the rear Bregenzerwald. The villages in and around the ski resort are Damüls (1,430 m) and Mellau (688m).
From Mellau, a detachable 10-seater gondola lift leads up to the ski area and the Roßstelle. From Damüls, ski lifts lead directly into the ski area. About 80% of the houses in Damüls are located on the slopes or a maximum of 100 m away of a slope. This makes Damüls popular for "ski-in ski-out".
In Damüls-Mellau, there are 27.6km of easy pistes (blue), 50.5km pistes of medium difficulty (red), 9.7km of difficult (black) as well as 21.2km of freeride routes.[2]
The snow park consists of several snowparks, which are connected with each other (Mainpark, UGA-park, Kidspark, uga-all-MTN-line, Ragaz Pro Line). In total, the snowparks have a size of approximately 85,000 m2 with approximately 2000m of freestyle slopes. There are a total of 40 freeride elements, including a halfpipe, waverides, jumps, corners and boxes.[3]
The ski area offers 2 cross-country trails (11km) at an altitude between 1,500m and 1,700m. The Unterdamüls trail is about 6 km long and hardly varies in height. The sunny cross-country trail Stofel in Oberdamüls is about 5km long.[4]
The toboggan run has a length of 2,5km and is illuminated for tobogganing two nights a week.[5]
The area provides 29 lifts and cable cars, one of the best snowparks in western Austria and a 120 m illuminated ski tunnel. Moreover, there are 5 practice areas with child-friendly lifts and conveyor belts.[2]
