Stoten Ski Holidays

Why choose Stöten

Choose Stöten for strong Swedish skiing. Swedish ski holidays are known to be family friendly, and that’s a great reason to head to Sweden on your next ski holiday. And sure, Stöten has plenty of family infrastructure to make life easy, but the adults get genuine red and black pistes to get their teeth into too.

You’ll find Stöten pleasingly compact. Almost all the accommodation is close to the slopes, and you never feel you’re staying in a sprawling ski town.

Before you settle on your ski week, be a little cautious around the Swedish school-holiday weeks. Stöten’s lift network doesn’t have masses of redundancy, so if a key lift goes down when the resort is full, queues start to form.

Skiing in Stöten

Älvan and Näcken are proper pistes, and Älvan in particular is popular with Swedish skiers. There are interesting reds and blacks around the Vargy side, tree skiing, and enough vertical to let a good skier find some rhythm before the run runs out.

That’s the real difference from Salen Lindvallen and, to an extent, Kläppen. Those resorts can groom a beautiful piste, but you can feel as though you’ve barely got going before you’re back at the lift. Stöten isn’t Chamonix, and a strong skier will eventually cover everything it has. Salen Hundfjället has the edge for tree skiing and variety, but for pure piste quality it’s Stöten.

There’s a freestyle side too, though it’s more about progression than spectacle. The Stöten Snowpark runs an easy jump line and a bigger one side by side, with a mini jib park and a green junior park for younger children finding their feet, and the lower section is floodlit for evening laps.

Après ski in Stöten

Stöten offers more après than you might expect. Brasseriet is the centre, with live music, and beer at the high Scandinavian prices you’d expect. Expect troubadours midweek and live bands on Friday and Saturday, with the Tipi Bar to move on to afterwards. For a compact family resort, Stöten has a good après balance.

Most wouldn’t make a beeline to Stöten for its food reputation. Restaurants are fair but not special, and Mountain Lodge is likely the safest bet of the bunch. For a genuinely good dinner try Hundfjället’s Frö.

Activities off the slopes in Stöten

Sweden offers a genuinely different kind of ski holiday to the Alps, so leave some space in your week for them.

Dog sledding is the obvious must-do. Wrapped in reindeer skins behind a team of dogs, out through snow-covered forest, it’s the sort of thing children remember long after the holiday ends.

Snowmobiling feels far more at home here than in the Alps, with guided safaris heading up onto Granfjället when the weather allows, and mini snowmobiles for the children. For something quieter, guided snowshoeing trips head off the pistes and into the mountains, some finishing with food cooked over an open fire.

Cross-country is worth a go (and very Scandinavian) even if you’ve never tried it before, with 45km of prepared classic and skate tracks and a floodlit 3km loop for skiing into the evening.

And for the days when it’s minus eighteen and everyone needs a bit of warmth, Vattufjäll has a pool, hot tub, sauna, spa, gym and a bowling alley.