Pistes and lifts
What you can ski here
AlpineSnowboardFreerideSnowpark
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, New Zealand and Chile; 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
The mountain itself is gentle by Alpine standards but vast for Finland, with 45 km of pistes spread across the rounded shoulders of the 525 m Levitunturi. Sirkka village wraps around the lift base in a tidy grid of log cabins, glass igloos and reindeer farms, all walkable in the polar-night darkness. The Aurora forecast is part of every breakfast conversation here, and Northern Lights tours leave nightly into the snowbound forests of Kittilä. Cross-country trails fan out for hundreds of kilometres into the surrounding fells, and dog-sledding kennels operate within walking distance of the centre. A long season runs from late October to early May, with reliable cold and dry snow through the heart of winter.
Good to know
- The terrain is well balanced: 8 green, 22 blue, 15 red and 6 black runs, which suits a mixed group skiing together at different levels.
- The base sits at 200 m and the top reaches 525 m, a profile that holds snow well across a normal winter (score 82/100).
- It is a compact resort, 45 km of piste on 27 lifts, best as a day trip or a relaxed short break rather than a week-long base.
- The lifts typically turn for about 27 weeks a season, planning around late January to late February tends to land the most reliable cover.