Grüsch-Danusa
Grüsch-Danusa is a ski destination in Graubünden with 22 km of mapped pistes and 9 lifts, between 597 m and 1'776 m. Mostly red, 3 km black. Nearby: Furna, Grüsch.
Rank Grüsch-Danusa against every ski area near Chur 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 Grüsch-Danusa 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, 6°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 6°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Valzeina (935 m, 1.9 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 63 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: gruesch-danusa.ch, “Tageskarte Einzelperson, Auswärtig, Erw.”, read .
For the size: the area maps 22 km of pistes and 1'179 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 54 for . This pass is 17% 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
Parking at Grüsch-Danusa
Main car park: Parkplatz Talstation Grüsch · 1'000 spaces · CHF 8 for a ski day · gruesch-danusa.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
4 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 4 car parks by the lifts of Grüsch-Danusa, the biggest first.
- Car park by the Grüsch-Cavadura · by a piste · Map
- Car park 300 m from the Grüsch-Cavadura · piste 240 m away · Map
- Car park 370 m from the Grüsch-Cavadura · Map
- Car park 21 spaces · 340 m from the Grüsch-Cavadura · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 22 min | 38 minSeewis-Pardisla · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 1h 05 | 1h 39Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 39 | 2h 07Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 42 | 1h 57Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 46 | 1h 27Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 1 change |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 49 | 1h 50Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 52 | 2h 30Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Bern | 3h 00 | 2h 34Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Basel | 3h 02 | 2h 32Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 1 change |
| Lausanne | 3h 49 | 3h 55Grüsch · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 31 | 4h 30Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 33 | 4h 40Grüsch, Talstation Danusa · 2 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 Grüsch Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 22 km
- Blue pistes
- 2 km
- Red pistes
- 16 km
- Black pistes
- 3 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Top station
- 1'776 m
- Base
- 597 m
- Vertical
- 1'179 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.9 km, from 1'738 m down to 597 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Graubünden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Grüsch-Danusa are
Red and black: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 2 · 1.7 km | 24 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 12 · 16.2 km | 38 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 3 · 3.3 km | 49 % | 51 % | typical |
The steepest 100 m: 53 % on 5 FIS-Hang (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 17 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Grüsch-Danusa (21.2 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 Grüsch-Danusa
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Grüsch-Danusa, highest first.
- Red Fox Restaurant · about 1'770 m · Map
- Berghaus Schwänzelegg Restaurant · about 1'770 m · Map
- Oberhofstübli Restaurant · about 1'140 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
Ski schools at Grüsch-Danusa
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Grüsch-Danusa | CHF 240 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Grüsch-Danusa. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Grüsch-Danusa Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 62 per half-day (2 h), CHF 255 for five half-days; from age 4; groups of up to 12; lunch supervision CHF 25 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 100 per hour, CHF 190 for two hours, CHF 240 for three hours
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Saturday, 09:30–11:30; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Grüsch-Danusa
Ski areas near Grüsch-Danusa
How popular Grüsch-Danusa is
Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG counted 83'600 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26.
How many ski here
Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG counted 83'600 winter first entries (“Ersteintritte”) in fiscal year 2025/26. Annual report 2025/26
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Grüsch-Danusa in numbers
40 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Furna and Grüsch, 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 Furna and Grüsch: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
40 % of the 1'815 homes in Furna and Grüsch are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 4.3 million revenue, CHF 2 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 106'773 and CHF 504'413 invested. Annual report 2025/26
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1992 (Grüsch - Cavadura); half of them date from 1992 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavadura -Schwänzelegg | gondola | 1992 | 2'132 m | 594 m | Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG |
| Grüsch - Cavadura | gondola | 1992 | 1'462 m | 536 m | Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG |
| Danusa - Schwänzelegg | chairlift | 1988 | 721 m | 133 m | Bergbahnen Grüsch-Danusa AG |
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.
Skigebiet Grüsch-Danusa · Domaine skiable Grüsch-Danusa · Comprensorio sciistico Grüsch-Danusa