Cari
Cari is a local ski area in Ticino with 11 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'651 m and 2'280 m. Mostly blue, 3 km black. Nearby: Campello, Carì.
Rank Cari against every ski area near Chur 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 Bassa di Nara (2'077 m), 4.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station NAR2. 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 Prödor UTOE (1'740 m, 0.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 1h 16 | 4h 18Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 23 | 2h 59Carì, Paese · 3 changes |
| Zug | 1h 28 | 2h 38Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 51 | 3h 05Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 59 | 3h 37Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 02 | 4h 21Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 03 | 3h 48Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 08 | 4h 22Carì, Paese · 3 changes |
| Basel | 2h 43 | 4h 19Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 01 | 5h 46Carì, Paese · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 3h 24 | 4h 57estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 26 | 5h 00estimate |
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 Carì Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 11 km
- Blue pistes
- 6 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Black pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 2'280 m
- Base
- 1'651 m
- Vertical
- 628 m
- Longest mapped run
- 2.8 km, from 2'279 m down to 1'737 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Ticino
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Cari are
Blue: gentler than most. Black: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 4.6 km | 15 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 2 · 1.3 km | 29 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 4 · 2.5 km | 58 % | 51 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 64 % on Brüsada (black).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 10 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Cari (8.3 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 Cari
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Cari, highest first.
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 Cari
Ski areas near Cari
Cari in numbers
66 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Faido, 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 Faido: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
66 % of the 3'943 homes in Faido 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: 2003 (Brusada - Lago di Carí); half of them date from 2001 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brusada - Lago di Carí | chairlift | 2003 | 1'051 m | 332 m | Nuova Carì Impianti Turistici SA |
| Carí Croce - Brusada | chairlift | 2001 | 1'029 m | 299 m | Nuova Carì Impianti Turistici SA |
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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