Oppdal reviews

Good off-piste and wonderful views!!! Good and long slopes with a lot of drop and also a bit for ski professionals. Very good! Is also not very far from Gothenburg! Will be back!!!

Visited Oppdal for a few days in week 10. No queues and the lift system is just right for a few days skiing. It hadn't snowed for a while and it was warm during the day and cold at night, so it was rock hard in the forest/terrain but great on the slopes, I can only imagine how good skiing they have off the piste when there is snow. The restaurant selection in the system was a disaster, there were two restaurants that served some kind of food, one looked very shabby and smelled of sewage (in Stølen) and the other looked good and had an ok menu (Vagnslia). So bring your own lunch, if you don't live near the slopes.
We lived in Vagnslia and will live in the same area next time. We will definitely come back to Oppdal!

Was visiting Monday to Thursday v.11 in 2024. The slopes and the weather were superb. Probably more people in the staff than number of riders, i.e. no queues at all. We went for a peak ride, but unfortunately it hadn't snowed for a while, so the snow was hard and windy. Hope to return next year as well, it will be the third year in a row

Oppdal is a really good ski resort with fantastic off-piste opportunities close to the lifts.

I've been to Oppdal quite a few times both during sports holidays and Easter holidays, and there are almost never any queues. The new 6-chair lift in Vangslia has opened up fantastic off-piste directly at the lift. If I compare with Åre, the off-piste is just as good and varied, but much easier to reach. Where in Åre you need to take 3 lifts to get back to the top, here you only need to take 1 lift to take the same ride again.

Around Hovden, another part of Oppdal, there is a slightly more playful off-piste with many small rocks and many different variations

The Ådalen can be compared to the old thousand meter in Åre. Large open spaces and some steeps and rocks.

The chairs are flatter, but there is still a lot of fun to be found there. Among other things, some stream ravines and sparse forest.

I can warmly recommend Oppdal. I think it's a little strange that more people haven't discovered this place.
Oppdal is a small town where most things can be found. Can be reached by train from Trondheim and Oslo.

The disadvantages then? Yes, the lifts are a bit old, and mostly trailer lifts. Long transports between the different parts of the system. Restaurants on the slopes are not much to speak of.

Best restaurant on the hill: the pizzeria at the top of Hovden with real Italian pizza - worth a visit for both the pizza and the view across the valley.

We visited Oppdal Monday to Thursday year 12. There were very few people on the slopes, so no queues at all. Really fun, off-piste close to the lift and also super nice pistes, which held up well all day. We will be back, rest assured. The accommodation was down in Hovden, about 600 meters from the lift, which was perhaps stupid.

Compare Oppdal mainly with Myrkdalen as both places offer similar conditions and distances from my hometown (Gothenburg)
Stayed 1 week at "Øvre Vangstunet 11, Oppdal" via Airbnb. The accommodation is located right next to the new lift "Vangsliexpress" and this accommodation can warmly accommodate up to 4 people.

Oppdal is divided into 3 small systems (Vangslia, Hovden and Stølen) where the first two offer more advanced riding.
Lift pass 2100 Norwegian for 1 week.

Pros:
* Large piste areas available and in the event of snowfall, the options are really many! Larger piste areas than Myrkalen. Off-piste not explored to a greater extent as the conditions were not entirely good the last week of March -22. But the tracks off the piste proved what was going on before;)

* Few skiers - on weekdays there were "as many on the slopes as the number of employees" - just to go into the lift! On Saturday, however, there were 20 people at the 6-seater lift - there was a risk of a "queue" :)

* ... The new lift "Vangsliexpress" (6 seats incl wind protection) in the winter 21-22 makes it very easy to reach the top. Central station provides the opportunity to take only the simpler (but nice) slopes in the bottom part.

* The environment! Incredibly beautiful and almost a little "mini-alp feeling" compared to Myrk which is experienced a little more ordinary

* Oppdal is a large village with shops and restaurants etc. much easier to shop etc than in Myrkdalen

Cons:
* the transports between the systems are, as others have already written, boring, especially in wet snow / poor glide, you have to stake some. Why not supplement with simpler, shorter tow lifts in some strategic places?






Lasting memories are sun, beautiful surroundings, almost empty slopes and a nice Manchester! Oppdal will be visited again and then I hope for a real snow dump too! A week with almost only piste skiing was a bit annoying the last 2 days but supplement this with off-piste and I am completely satisfied!

Ski resort with great variety and good off piste on several different mountains and in varying latitudes.
There will be quite a lot of flat slope between the different lift systems, but no queues and beautiful views.

Love Oppdal

We are in Oppdal week 9 and it is crazy in many ways. Unlike in Sweden, the Norwegians have around sports holidays week 8 so basically everyone went home when we arrived. Hardly a person on the slopes and the children slopes next to the house closed even when we were going to have lunch because we were the only ones there.

By the time we arrived, four decimeters of powder had arrived, and a huge spread system meant that the large lift-off off-piste areas were barely driven several days after. The slopes in general are vastly varied, but the transport distances between the lifts are sometimes long.

Was there with the family in March 2018.
The ski system was deserted, largely empty of skaters besides free flow that did ski tests and alpine exercises.
Steep and well-groomed slopes can be found in Oppdal. A little nicer off-piste on the top with good snow and large surfaces. The forest sink was really good.
Compared to other places in Scandinavia, Oppdal is second only to Narvik on my list. There is also off-piste in good class on the mountains around Oppdal to discover.
Oppdal is a real city (schools, center, train station, cafes ...) which I like. Well-prepared lowering is of course obvious. (after all, it is, as I said, in Norway).
Good atmosphere on the people we met.
Then the whole picture is assessed. And we go there in winter again :)