The word "ski" is Old Norse
It comes from skíð, a split piece of wood — which is what the first skis were. English borrowed the word and never translated it.
Ski Resorts in Norway
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Norway ski resort map
Norway has 171 ski resorts by skiresort.com's count. Find Powder carries live snow reports for 16 of them, mapped here with the main cities and the airports that serve them. Zoom in to see every name, or jump straight to a region.
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- Ski resort
- City
- Airport
Agder (1)
- Hovden · 1,200m · snow history
Akershus (1)
- Varingskollen · 600m · snow history
Buskerud (4)
- Geilo · 1,178m · snow history
- Hemsedal · 1,500m · snow history
- Kongsberg · 700m · snow history
- Norefjell · 1,010m · snow history
Hedmark (1)
- Trysil · 1,132m · snow history
Møre og Romsdal (1)
- Stranda · 1,500m · snow history
Oppland (4)
- Beitostølen · 1,100m · snow history
- Hafjell · 1,030m · snow history
- Kvitfjell · 1,039m · snow history
- Skeikampen · 1,123m · snow history
Telemark (1)
- Gaustablikk · 1,883m · snow history
Trøndelag (1)
- Oppdal · 1,200m · snow history
Vestland (2)
- Myrkdalen · 1,498m · snow history
- Voss · 1,000m · snow history
Airports for skiing in Norway
The airports with scheduled flights closest to the Norway resorts we cover, nearest first. Several of the best gateways are across the border. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance — mountain roads can easily double them.
- Oslo-GardermoenOSL
17 km to Varingskollen, with 7 of the resorts on this map within 150 km.
- Scandinavian MountainsSCRIn Sweden
35 km to Trysil, with 3 of the resorts on this map within 150 km.
- ÅlesundAES
50 km to Stranda.
- Sandefjord Airport, TorpTRF
64 km to Kongsberg, with 4 of the resorts on this map within 150 km.
- Bergen Airport, FleslandBGO
76 km to Voss, with 3 of the resorts on this map within 150 km.
- Trondheim Airport, VærnesTRD
114 km to Oppdal.
- Stavanger Airport, SolaSVG
124 km to Hovden.
- KristiansandKRS
157 km to Hovden.
Cities on the map
Oslo (capital) — 23 km from the nearest resort · Bergen — 65 km from the nearest resort · Drammen — 32 km from the nearest resort · Lillestrøm — 22 km from the nearest resort · Trondheim — 99 km from the nearest resort · Stavanger — 113 km from the nearest resort · Ålesund — 44 km from the nearest resort · Fredrikstad — 88 km from the nearest resort · Sandefjord — 68 km from the nearest resort · Skien — 51 km from the nearest resort
Map shapes: Natural Earth. Airports: OurAirports (public domain). Cities: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Distances are straight-line from the airport or city to the nearest resort on this page.
Norway skiing and snowboarding facts
Skiing in Norway goes back thousands of years, as a way of getting about long before it was a sport, and the word itself comes from Old Norse. Norway is also the most successful nation in Winter Olympic history.
171
Ski resorts
Norway has 171 ski resorts by skiresort.com's count. Counts differ between sources, because each draws the line between a ski resort and a village tow in a different place.
Largest ski area
78 km
Trysil
Highest ski area
2,200m
Galdhøpiggen Sommerskisenter – Juvass — a summer ski centre on the flanks of Galdhøpiggen, Norway's highest mountain
Biggest vertical
1,010m
Norefjell
A skier carved into rock around 5,000 years ago
The island of Rødøya on the Helgeland coast has rock carvings of a skier that are approximately 5,000 years old.
More Winter Olympic medals than any other nation
Norway has won 447 Winter Olympic medals, 166 of them gold — the most of both, counting every Winter Games up to and including Milano-Cortina 2026.
41 medals at a single Winter Games
At Milano-Cortina 2026 Norway won 41 medals, 18 of them gold — the most any nation has won at one Winter Olympics.
Figures describe Norway as a whole, not just the resorts we track. Skier visits are shown only where a national industry body or two independent reports agree.