Best Ski Resorts for Families
53 resorts ranked by editorial assessment
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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.
9.5Family Friendliness7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 2
Rocky Mountains, USA
Breckenridge
Colorado's highest ski resort — five interconnected peaks above a genuine historic mining town, on the Epic Pass.
9.0Family Friendliness8.0Very GoodPremiumPremium - 3
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.
9.0Family Friendliness8.5Very GoodPremiumPremium - 4
Scandinavia, Finland
Levi
Finland's largest ski resort — Arctic skiing under the Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland, with a season from October to May.
9.0Family Friendliness7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 5
Alps, France
Morzine
Traditional Savoyard village at the heart of the Portes du Soleil — 600km of linked terrain shared with Switzerland.
9.0Family Friendliness7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 6
Scandinavia, Sweden
Åre
Scandinavia's premier ski resort — a full-service mountain destination with Sweden's biggest vertical and a vibrant village.
8.5Family Friendliness7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 7
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.
8.5Family Friendliness7.0GoodBudgetBudget - 8
Alps, France
Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry
A choice of purpose-built bases, 200km of local piste and a train-and-funicular route from the valley floor, with the Paradiski link to La Plagne as an option.
8.5Family Friendliness7.5GoodPremiumPremium - 9
Alps, Italy
Livigno
Italy's highest resort and duty-free enclave — high-altitude snow reliability with some of the Alps' best value.
8.5Family Friendliness7.5GoodModerateMid-range - 10
Eastern Canada, Canada
Mont-Tremblant
Eastern North America's #1 ski resort — 645m of Laurentian vertical, 102 runs, and a pedestrian village that is the continent's best-designed ski base.
8.5Family Friendliness7.5GoodPremiumPremium