Bosco Gurin – Grossalp
Bosco Gurin – Grossalp is a local ski area in Ticino with 17 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'482 m and 2'326 m. Mostly red, 4 km black. Nearby: Bosco Gurin.
Rank Bosco Gurin – Grossalp against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Hendar Furggu (2'299 m), 1.9 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station BOG2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Capanna Grossalp UTOE (1'907 m, 0.3 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 1h 33 | 3h 47Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
| Zug | 1h 46 | 3h 35Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 3 changes |
| Chur | 1h 52 | 2h 58estimate |
| Bern | 1h 56 | 3h 03estimate |
| Zürich | 2h 10 | 4h 00Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 19 | 4h 16Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 25 | 4h 27Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 34 | 6h 55Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 35 | 6h 12Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
| Basel | 2h 47 | 5h 56Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 3 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 59 | 7h 05Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 13 | 6h 55Bosco/Gurin, Paese · 4 changes |
Train: the timetable’s fastest connection leaving the city’s station between 06:30 and 09:30 on Sat 16 Jan 2027, to the valley station of the area’s lowest lift, with the walk from the last stop. Car: an estimate from coordinates, not live traffic. Check your trip on sbb.ch before you go.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Bosco Gurin Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 17 km
- Blue pistes
- 4 km
- Red pistes
- 9 km
- Black pistes
- 4 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 2'326 m
- Base
- 1'482 m
- Vertical
- 844 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.7 km, from 2'322 m down to 1'484 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Ticino
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Bosco Gurin – Grossalp are
Red: typical. Black: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 5.4 km | 31 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 10 · 8.9 km | 37 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 4 · 3.9 km | 59 % | 51 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 63 % on Meschar (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 1
- 9 Kramegg Red · 323 m down over 1.8 km, steepest 100 m at 38 % · Map
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 16 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Bosco Gurin – Grossalp (18.3 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour.
Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, on terrain without snow: snow and grooming soften steps, and a piste can run beside its line. A gradient of 100 % is 45°. Colours as OpenStreetMap maps them, which can differ from the lift company’s piste map: check it before you go.
Piste lines from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo. A piste wrong or missing? Fix the map
Mountain restaurants in Bosco Gurin – Grossalp
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Bosco Gurin – Grossalp, highest first.
- Rifugio Sonnenberg Mountain hut · about 2'330 m · Map
- Rosboda Restaurant · about 1'990 m · Map
- Capanna Grossalp Mountain hut · about 1'910 m · Map
Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.
From OpenStreetMap, read 25 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A place missing or closed? Fix the map
About Bosco Gurin – Grossalp
Ski areas near Bosco Gurin – Grossalp
Bosco Gurin – Grossalp in numbers
88 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Bosco/Gurin, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
The Federal Statistical Office publishes no hotel figures for Bosco/Gurin: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
88 % of the 209 homes in Bosco/Gurin are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1998 (Bosco Gurin - Grossalp); half of them date from 1998 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosco Gurin - Grossalp | chairlift | 1998 | 1'816 m | 508 m | Giovanni Frapolli |
| Grossalp - Rossboda | chairlift | 1998 | 1'440 m | 347 m | Giovanni Frapolli |
Commune figures count every hotel guest, not only skiers, and holiday flats are not in the hotel statistics. A licence year is when the installation’s current federal licence starts: usually the year it opened, sometimes a renewal.
Sources: Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
Featured in
Catalog facts from OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Where an SLF station is nearby, the app shows its measured snow, and the day-pass price is read from the operator’s own shop or tariff; for opening status, check the operator.
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