Voss is a fjord-side town on the Bergen-Oslo railway, with a small alpine field on Hangurstoppen and a hard-edged extreme-sports culture that goes well beyond skiing. From the lakeside square you ride the gondola up to 945 m and look back down on the train station and the water.
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.
A handful of well-rated hotels in and around the resort. Pick one, then compare live prices across Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
Great · 1.4k reviews
Moments from the lifts in Voss, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
Guests rate this hotel as great (4.2/5 from 1,400 reviews). It sits about 200 m from the slopes. A mid-range option for Voss, with live nightly rates shown for your exact dates so you always see the best price.
Great · 889 reviews
Moments from the lifts in Voss, so you can ski back to the door and skip the morning queues.
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True ski-in/ski-out is limited at Voss because the village base sits at the bottom of the gondola rather than on the snow; the closest in-snow options are at the Bavallen base on the back side of Hangurstoppen.
From a base at 91 m by the lake, the gondola lifts to the Hanguren upper station and 40 km of piste spread between Hangurstoppen at 945 m and the lower flanks back to town. The character is short, sharp reds and well-cut blues with the fjord panorama in front of you all the way down, and a season that starts in early December and runs to late April thanks to coastal moisture meeting cold inland air. Voss is the staging ground of the Voss Extreme Sports Week each summer, and the BASE-jumping, skydiving and paragliding scene is genuine year-round, with operators based in town. The Bergen-Oslo train stops at Voss station three minutes from the gondola, ninety minutes from Bergen and five and a half hours from Oslo, with regular services either way. Between runs the town itself offers a fjord-side restaurant scene that is far more developed than a 40 km ski field would normally support. Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com list hotels around the station square and a smaller number of apartments closer to the lift.
Hotels and apartments around the lifts. Compare prices on Booking, Expedia and Hotels.com.
Voss offers 40 km of pistes across 9 lifts, from 91 m to 945 m. Whether it suits beginners depends on the dedicated learner zones at the base of the slopes, so check the local ski-school options for green and blue run access.
The season runs from Dec 7 to Apr 21, with a snow score of 76/100. The best conditions are usually from late January through February, while spring skiing in March and April brings longer days and softer afternoons.
True ski-in/ski-out is limited at Voss because the village base sits at the bottom of the gondola rather than on the snow; the closest in-snow options are at the Bavallen base on the back side of Hangurstoppen.
Voss has 40 km of marked pistes served by 9 lifts, between 91 m and 945 m of altitude.
Voss counts about 40 marked runs in total. The colour breakdown above shows how they split by difficulty, a good guide to whether the resort fits your level.
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