Gspon
Gspon is a local ski area in Valais with 2 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'866 m and 2'192 m. Mostly blue and red, no black. Nearby: Stalden, Staldenried.
Rank Gspon against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 3 cm, 3.8 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Seetal (2'480 m), 6.4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SAA2. 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, 2°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Gibidumpass (2'201 m, 4 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 39 | 1h 12Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 48 | 2h 19Stalden-Saas · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 1h 54 | 2h 00Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Zug | 2h 06 | 2h 47Stalden-Saas · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 28 | 2h 43Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 30 | 2h 10Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 31 | 2h 53Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 35 | 3h 40Stalden-Saas · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 38 | 2h 33Stalden-Saas · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 43 | 2h 18Stalden-Saas · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 2h 48 | 2h 40Stalden-Saas · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 09 | 3h 19Stalden-Saas · 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 Gspon Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 2 km
- Blue pistes
- <1 km
- Red pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 2'192 m
- Base
- 1'866 m
- Vertical
- 326 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.2 km, from 2'190 m down to 1'890 m
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Gspon are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 0.5 km | 29 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 1.7 km | 23 % | 38 % | — |
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 3 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Gspon (2.2 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
About Gspon
Ski areas near Gspon
Gspon in numbers
37 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Staldenried and Stalden (VS), 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 Staldenried and Stalden (VS): it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
37 % of the 1'217 homes in Staldenried and Stalden (VS) are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2018 (Stalden-Staldenried); half of them date from 2018 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stalden-Staldenried | cable car | 2018 | 1'158 m | 359 m | – |
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
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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