Best Ski Resorts for Beginners
43 resorts ranked by editorial assessment
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Rocky Mountains, USA
Breckenridge
Colorado's highest ski resort — five interconnected peaks above a genuine historic mining town, on the Epic Pass.
9.0Beginner Suitability8.0Very GoodPremiumPremium - 2
Alps, France
La Plagne
The world's most visited ski resort — 225km across 10 linked Tarentaise villages, a glacier at 3,250m, and an Olympic bobsled track.
9.0Beginner Suitability8.5Very GoodPremiumPremium - 3
Scandinavia, Finland
Levi
Finland's largest ski resort — Arctic skiing under the Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland, with a season from October to May.
9.0Beginner Suitability7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 4
Alps, Austria
Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis
Austria's number one family resort — a car-free village served by a hovering underground railway found nowhere else on earth.
9.0Beginner Suitability7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 5
Scandinavia, Sweden
Åre
Scandinavia's premier ski resort — a full-service mountain destination with Sweden's biggest vertical and a vibrant village.
8.5Beginner Suitability7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 6
Alps, Italy
Cervinia
Italy's highest resort, skiing under the shadow of the Matterhorn — a high-altitude mountain with the longest season in the Alps.
8.5Beginner Suitability8.0Very GoodPremiumPremium - 7
Pyrenees, Andorra
Grandvalira
The largest ski area in the Pyrenees — 210km of pistes across seven linked villages, at prices well below the Alps.
8.5Beginner Suitability7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 8
Balkans, Serbia
Kopaonik
Serbia's largest ski resort — 55km of forested National Park pistes at a price that makes the Balkans' best ski destination hard to argue with.
8.5Beginner Suitability7.0GoodBudgetBudget - 9
Alps, Italy
Livigno
Italy's highest resort and duty-free enclave — high-altitude snow reliability with some of the Alps' best value.
8.5Beginner Suitability7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 10
Alps, France
Megève
The original Alpine luxury resort — founded by the Rothschilds in 1921 as the French answer to St. Moritz, with 445km in the Évasion Mont-Blanc domain.
8.5Beginner Suitability8.0Very GoodLuxuryLuxury
