Rothwald
Rothwald is a local ski area in Valais with 9 km of mapped pistes and 2 lifts, between 1'754 m and 2'260 m. Mostly blue and red, 1 km black.
Rank Rothwald against every ski area near Bern for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Wenghorn (2'424 m), 11.2 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station SPN3. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Brig / Wase (1'945 m, 0.6 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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Bern | 1h 39 | 1h 42Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 1 change |
| Lucerne | 1h 39 | 3h 12Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 2 changes |
| Zug | 1h 56 | 3h 19Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 04 | 2h 07Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 1 change |
| Zürich | 2h 20 | 2h 39Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 1 change |
| Chur | 2h 22 | 4h 09Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 28 | 3h 02Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 2h 38 | 3h 09Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 40 | 2h 47Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 1 change |
| Geneva | 2h 40 | 2h 50Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 43 | 3h 03Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 2 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 56 | 3h 48Rothwald, Schutzhaus · 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 Rothwald Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 9 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 3 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 2
- Top station
- 2'260 m
- Base
- 1'754 m
- Vertical
- 505 m
- Longest mapped run
- 3.2 km, from 2'260 m down to 1'754 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 2
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Rothwald are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 4 · 4.1 km | 23 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 3 · 2.5 km | 35 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 1.4 km | 47 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 11 % on Wasenalpstrasse (blue).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 8 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Rothwald (7.9 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 Rothwald
OpenStreetMap maps 2 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Rothwald, 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 Rothwald
Ski areas near Rothwald
Rothwald in numbers
18 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in 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 Ried-Brig: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
18 % of the 1'356 homes in Ried-Brig 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
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 Rothwald · Domaine skiable Rothwald · Comprensorio sciistico Rothwald