Strandafjellet Ski Resort

⛷️ Skiing Mountain Sunnmøre

Strandafjellet Ski Resort

180 minutes
Up in the mountains above the town of Stranda lies Strandafjellet, one of western Norway's largest ski resorts. The name is a bit funny if you know Norwegian, because Stranda comes from the Old Norse word strǫnd, meaning beach. So this is literally "the beach mountain".

The resort runs from 430 metres up to 1,230 metres, with 7 lifts including a gondola, around 20 slopes, and 15 kilometres of cross-country trails. It gets a lot of snow, sometimes 50 centimetres in a single day, and has built a serious reputation among freeride skiers as possibly the best off-piste area in Scandinavia. The views from the top are hard to beat: fjords on one side, the Sunnmøre Alps on the other.

One thing that makes Strandafjellet unique is that it is one of the few places in the world where you can ski from a mountain summit all the way down to a fjord. Every year, around 250 skiers and snowboarders do exactly that in the race called Alperittet, descending from 1,230 metres straight to the water. Even in summer, the gondola runs for sightseers. There is a restaurant at the top station, Stova 1957, which opened in 2021.

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