Pistes and lifts
What you can ski here
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Run counts and piste kilometres are indicative. Green runs only exist in France, Spain, Andorra, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Algeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand; Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany start at blue. Indicative average snow depth near the top of the resort, in cm.
Get to know the resort
There is no road up to Klewenalp. You park at Beckenried on Lake Lucerne, you queue at the cable-car station with skis on your shoulder, and four minutes later you are at 1,593 m on a long open shelf above the water. The journey is half the appeal: the gondola lifts you out of the lake fog into clean light, and then for the rest of the day you are skiing with the Rigi to the east, Pilatus to the north and Stanserhorn closing the middle distance: one of the great Swiss panoramas, and one you only really get from skis.
The domain spreads over two linked sectors, Klewenalp and Stockhütte, with 40 km of piste in total. The verticals are modest, peaking at 1,900 m, and the gradient is genuinely friendly: 15 km of blue, 15 km of red, three short blacks for variety. This is intentional. Klewenalp-Stockhütte makes its living as a family mountain and a Zurich day-trip mountain, and it is built for that audience: gentle wide runs, a long beginner zone above the top cable-car station, attentive ski schools, sunny restaurant terraces angled at the water. The snow record is solid for the altitude, helped by the lake-effect cold and a good cover of snowmaking on the main return runs.
What keeps people coming back is the same thing that brought them the first time: that view. You ride the lifts and have the Mythen, the Rigi, Pilatus and the Stanserhorn arranged around you, the lake silver below, the Bernese giants white in the distance on a clear day. After lunch on a south-facing terrace at 1,800 m, with Lake Lucerne directly underneath, the rest of Switzerland feels a long way off.
