Rosswald

Rosswald is a local ski area in Valais with 5 km of mapped pistes and 5 lifts, between 1'835 m and 2'514 m. Mostly blue and black, 2 km black. Nearby: Ried-Brig, Termen.

Rank Rosswald against every ski area near Bern for this weekend

This weekend

Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass

Snow at the nearest SLF station

Snow depth 7 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Bortelsee (2'517 m), 4.5 km from the ski area. Measured on 2 November 2026.

Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station BOR2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched 2 Nov 2026, 14:36 (Swiss time).

Weekend forecast

Saturday, 7 November: Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
Sunday, 8 November: Partly cloudy, 0°C, wind 5 km/h

Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Brig / Stafel (2'065 m, 0.8 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched 2 Nov 2026, 14:36 (Swiss time).

Adult day pass

CHF 49 for Saturday, 16 January 2027. 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: rosswald-bahnen.ch, “Skipass inkl. Gondelbahn, Tageskarte, Erwachsene”, read 2 Nov 2026, 08:38 (Swiss time).

For the size: the area maps 5 km of pistes and 679 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 36 for Saturday, 16 January 2027. This pass is 36% 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

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Travel time from Swiss cities

From	Car	Train
Bern	1h 35	1h 36Ried-Brig, Chavez · 1 change
Lucerne	1h 35	2h 47Ried-Brig, Talstation LRR · 2 changes
Zug	1h 53	3h 13Ried-Brig, Chavez · 2 changes
Lausanne	2h 03	2h 01Ried-Brig, Chavez · 1 change
Zürich	2h 16	2h 33Ried-Brig, Chavez · 1 change
Chur	2h 20	4h 03Ried-Brig, Chavez · 3 changes
Zurich Airport	2h 25	2h 56Ried-Brig, Chavez · 2 changes
Winterthur	2h 35	3h 03Ried-Brig, Chavez · 2 changes
Basel	2h 36	2h 41Ried-Brig, Chavez · 1 change
Geneva	2h 41	2h 44Ried-Brig, Chavez · 1 change
Geneva Airport	2h 43	2h 57Ried-Brig, Chavez · 2 changes
St. Gallen	2h 53	3h 42Ried-Brig, Chavez · 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 Rosswald Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults

The mountain

Facts

Mapped pistes: 5 km
Blue pistes: 2 km
Red pistes: <1 km
Black pistes: 2 km
Lifts: 5
Top station: 2'514 m
Base: 1'835 m
Vertical: 679 m
Longest mapped run: 2.7 km, from 2'514 m down to 1'837 m
Mountain restaurants: 1
Canton: Valais

Piste map

How steep the pistes in Rosswald are

Colour	Pistes	Steepest 100 m, typically	All of Switzerland	Here
Blue	1 · 1.5 km	31 %	28 %	—
Red	1 · 0.9 km	34 %	38 %	—
Black	2 · 2.4 km	52 %	51 %	—

The steepest 100 m: 55 % on Stafel (black).

Long descents without flat stretches 1

Stafel Black · 428 m down over 1.4 km, steepest 100 m at 55 % · Map

How this was measured

Skiboard measured the 4 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Rosswald (4.8 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 Rosswald

OpenStreetMap maps one place to eat or drink up the mountain in Rosswald.

Fleschboden Restaurant · about 2'130 m · Map

Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.

About Rosswald

Ski areas near Rosswald

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Rosswald in numbers

32 % second homes

Hotels, homes and lifts in Termen and Ried-Brig, 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 Termen and Ried-Brig: it leaves out communes with few hotels.

Homes

32 % of the 2'315 homes in Termen and Ried-Brig 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: 2000 (Ried bei Brig - Rosswald); half of them date from 2000 or earlier.

The 1 federally licensed installations

Installation	Type	Licensed	Length	Rise	Operator
Ried bei Brig - Rosswald	gondola	2000	1'767 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

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 Rosswald · Domaine skiable Rosswald · Comprensorio sciistico Rosswald