Gitschenen – Isenthal

Gitschenen – Isenthal is a local ski area in Uri with 3 km of mapped pistes and 2 lifts, between 1'364 m and 1'581 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Isenthal.

Rank Gitschenen – Isenthal against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend

This weekend

Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass

Snow at the nearest SLF station

There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Gitschenen – Isenthal at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.

Weekend forecast

  • : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
  • : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h

Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Brisenhaus SAC (1'753 m, 3.3 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .

Adult day pass

CHF 32 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.

Source: skiliftgitschenen.ch, “Tageskarten Erwachsene mit Bahn”, read .

For the size: the area maps 3 km of pistes and 217 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 29 for . This pass is 12% more.

Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.

Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area

Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.

Your trip

Travel time from Swiss cities

FromCarTrain
Lucerne30 min1h 38Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 1 change
Zug38 min1h 26Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 1 change
Zürich1h 021h 51Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 1 change
Zurich Airport1h 112h 07Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Winterthur1h 192h 18Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Chur1h 293h 18Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Bern1h 312h 52Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 3 changes
St. Gallen1h 392h 51Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Basel1h 522h 49Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Lausanne2h 424h 16Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 2 changes
Geneva3h 134h 59Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 3 changes
Geneva Airport3h 145h 09Isenthal, Seilbahn St. Jakob · 3 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.

The mountain

Facts

Mapped pistes
3 km
Blue pistes
2 km
Red pistes
2 km
Lifts
2
Top station
1'581 m
Base
1'364 m
Vertical
217 m
Longest mapped run
1.4 km, from 1'581 m down to 1'365 m
Mountain restaurants
3
Canton
Uri

How steep the pistes in Gitschenen – Isenthal are

ColourPistesSteepest 100 m, typicallyAll of SwitzerlandHere
Blue1 · 1.8 km27 %28 %—
Red2 · 1.2 km34 %38 %—

How this was measured

Skiboard measured the 3 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Gitschenen – Isenthal (3.0 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 Gitschenen – Isenthal

OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Gitschenen – Isenthal, 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 Gitschenen – Isenthal

Ski areas near Gitschenen – Isenthal

All ski areas in Uri

Gitschenen – Isenthal in numbers

18 % second homes

Hotels, homes and lifts in Isenthal, 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 Isenthal: it leaves out communes with few hotels.

Homes

18 % of the 299 homes in Isenthal are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.

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

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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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