Mörlialp
Mörlialp is a local ski area in Obwalden with 5 km of mapped pistes and 6 lifts, between 1'356 m and 1'837 m. Mostly red, 1 km black. Nearby: Giswil.
Rank Mörlialp against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 14 cm, 12.8 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Schönbüel (1'777 m), 4.6 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SCB2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Glaubenbielen (1'611 m, 0.9 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 38 min | 1h 18Mörlialp · 1 change |
| Zug | 58 min | 1h 54Mörlialp · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 01 | 2h 30Mörlialp · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 20 | 2h 20Mörlialp · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 28 | 2h 41Mörlialp · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 39 | 2h 50Mörlialp · 3 changes |
| Basel | 1h 42 | 2h 26Mörlialp · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 00 | 3h 52Mörlialp · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 09 | 3h 32Mörlialp · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 09 | 3h 50Mörlialp · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 59 | 4h 25Mörlialp · 4 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 00 | 4h 35Mörlialp · 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 Giswil Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 5 km
- Blue pistes
- 1 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 6
- Top station
- 1'837 m
- Base
- 1'356 m
- Vertical
- 481 m
- Longest mapped run
- 1.1 km, from 1'837 m down to 1'562 m
- Canton
- Obwalden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Mörlialp are
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 1 · 1.0 km | 46 % | 28 % | — |
| Red | 2 · 2.2 km | 45 % | 38 % | — |
| Black | 2 · 1.3 km | 50 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 62 % on Wand (black).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 5 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Mörlialp (4.4 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 Mörlialp
Ski areas near Mörlialp
Mörlialp in numbers
15 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Giswil, 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 Giswil: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
15 % of the 2'095 homes in Giswil are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Below 20 %, the Second Homes Act does not restrict new ones.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2001 (Mörlialp - Stössi); half of them date from 2001 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mörlialp - Stössi | chairlift | 2001 | 549 m | 193 m | Skilifte Mörlialp 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.
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