Sörenberg
Sörenberg is a ski destination in Lucerne / Obwalden with 38 km of mapped pistes and 17 lifts, between 1'119 m and 2'257 m. Mostly blue and red, 6 km black. Nearby: Giswil.
Rank Sörenberg against every ski area near Lucerne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 7.2 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Rotschalp (1'875 m), 4.4 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station ROA2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 3°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Sörenberg / Schwändelibrücke (1'215 m, 2.3 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 64 for . The operator’s online price for that day when it was read: an area that prices by date or demand may charge more or less when you buy. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: shop.soerenberg.ch, “Ski- und Snowboardtickets, Erwachsen 1-Tageskarte”, read .
For the size: the area maps 38 km of pistes and 1'139 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 59 for . This pass is 9% 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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Parking at Sörenberg
Main car park: Parkplatz Rischli · CHF 5 for a ski day · soerenberg.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Sörenberg, the biggest first.
- Rischli Car park · 40 m from the Rischli-Brunnenboden · piste 40 m away · Map
- Car park free · by the Luftseilbahn Sörenberg-Brienzer Rothorn · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 50 m from the Skilift Ochsenweid · piste 50 m away · Map
- Car park 40 m from the Sessellift Sörenbergplatz-Steinetli · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · by the Skilift Schönisei-Rossweid · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 50 m from the Sessellift Sörenbergplatz-Steinetli · piste 40 m away · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 43 min | 1h 03Sörenberg, Post · 1 change |
| Bern | 56 min | 1h 24Sörenberg, Post · 1 change |
| Zug | 1h 04 | 1h 28Sörenberg, Post · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 24 | 1h 50Sörenberg, Post · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 32 | 2h 11Sörenberg, Post · 3 changes |
| Basel | 1h 41 | 2h 26Sörenberg, Post · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 44 | 2h 20Sörenberg, Post · 3 changes |
| Lausanne | 2h 03 | 2h 43Sörenberg, Post · 2 changes |
| Chur | 2h 06 | 3h 22Sörenberg, Post · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 2h 16 | 3h 02Sörenberg, Post · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 2h 53 | 3h 25Sörenberg, Post · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 2h 54 | 3h 35Sörenberg, Post · 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 Sörenberg Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
- Train and ski pass: Snow’n’Rail Sörenberg Not on sale at the moment · SBB RailAway, train ticket and ski pass together
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 38 km
- Blue pistes
- 19 km
- Red pistes
- 14 km
- Black pistes
- 6 km
- Lifts
- 17
- Top station
- 2'257 m
- Base
- 1'119 m
- Vertical
- 1'139 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.3 km, from 1'679 m down to 1'243 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 4
- Canton
- Lucerne / Obwalden
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Sörenberg are
Red: typical. Blue and black: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 13 · 16.4 km | 31 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 14 · 11.1 km | 35 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 3 · 4.6 km | 65 % | 51 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 68 % on 3 (black).
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 30 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Sörenberg (32.1 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 Sörenberg
OpenStreetMap maps 4 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Sörenberg, highest first.
- Gipfel Restaurant Rothorn Restaurant · about 2'280 m · Map
- Ski-Hütte Schwazenegg Restaurant · about 1'520 m · Map
- Berggasthaus Rossweid Restaurant · about 1'470 m · Map
- Skihütte Schwand Restaurant · about 1'330 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 Sörenberg
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Ski- und Snowboardschule Sörenberg | CHF 205 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Sörenberg. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Ski- und Snowboardschule Sörenberg Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 65 per half-day (3 h), CHF 260 for five half-days; from age 3
- Private lessons
- CHF 150 for two hours, CHF 205 for three hours, CHF 430 for a day (7 h); for one person; at least 2 h
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 09:45–12:45; 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 Sörenberg
Ski areas near Sörenberg
Sörenberg in numbers
58 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Flühli, 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 Flühli: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
58 % of the 2'269 homes in Flühli are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
Bergbahnen Sörenberg AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 14.7 million revenue, CHF 8.9 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 3.9 million and CHF 475'000 invested. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025/26
5 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2018 (Eisee - Brienzer Rothorn); half of them date from 2005 or earlier.
The 5 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eisee - Brienzer Rothorn | chairlift | 2018 | – | – | Bergbahnen Sörenberg AG |
| Sörenberg Platz - Steinetli | chairlift | 2010 | 1'018 m | 241 m | Bergbahnen Sörenberg AG |
| Steinetli - Hinterschwarzenegg | chairlift | 2005 | 1'582 m | 296 m | Bergbahnen Sörenberg AG |
| Sörenberg - Rossweid | gondola | 1990 | 1'452 m | 301 m | Bergbahnen Sörenberg AG |
| Sörenberg Schönenboden - Brienzer Rothorn | cable car | 1971 | 2'739 m | 1'040 m | Bergbahnen Sörenberg 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
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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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