Rogla Ski Resort


Rogla Ski Resort is a Slovenian ski resort opened in 1975 at Rogla, Zreče, located at the top of the Zreče Pohorje range and regularly the most or second most visited Slovenian ski resort, with over 200,000 skiers per season and capacity of 13,500/h. It is the seventh-largest Slovenian ski resort by ski area, with a total of ski slopes and of cross-country tracks.
Two outdoor stadiums and a multipurpose indoor sports hall, are one of the highest elevation stadiums/indoor arenas in Europe. Resort offers many activities, such as alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, squash, snowboarding, hiking, climbing wall, soccer, handball, basketball, athletics, mountain bike downhill, horseback riding, swimming, fitness, tennis, dog sledding, a forest canopy trail, and an alpine coaster.
The Rogla Olympic Center, used as high-elevation training camp, has hosted many prominent sports teams and athletes, such as Monica Seles, Goran Ivanišević, Petra Majdič, Goran Dragić, Paris Saint-Germain, Panathinaikos F.C., the Spain national handball team, and the France national handball team.
They are firmly a part of FIS Snowboard World Cup calendar hosting parallel giant slalom events since 2013; and FIS Cross-Country World Cup.

History

Early tourism dates back to 1928, when the Pesek cabin was opened. The first 10-meter high wooden watchtower was opened in 1934 at the highest point of Rogla, which was destroyed during World War II and replaced with a steel 30-meter high watchtower at the same place in 1956 and which is still standing. As of 2015 this was the highest watchtower in Slovenia.
In 1952 the old cabin was opened for herders only and since 1956 has also been open for tourism. It was the main gathering point at Rogla for many years, where modern tourism started and around which hotels were built is still very popular nowadays. Unior, a blacksmith company from valley lower in Zreče took over the cabin in 1972.
In 1974 Unior's management commissioned studies for the development of Rogla as a ski resort. The road leading to the peak was widened and the first ski lifts were built.
The main hotel and sports area with the Zlodejevo ski slope below a old cabin and Uniorček opened in late 1975 at an elevation of.
In 1978 construction began on the Hotel Dobrava in Zreče and the Hotel Planja on Rogla. Around Old Cabin they opened Hotel Planja in 1980, with the new ski lifts Mašinžaga and Ostruščica, and by 1981 the Hotel Dobrava had opened, along with a new swimming pool and an athletics and football stadium. In 1983 Hotel Rogla was opened next to Old Cabin.
In 1985 the Jurgovo black ski slopes were opened. In 1987 they opened multipurpose sports indoor hall with first ever squash court in Slovenia.
By the 1990s, Rogla had a capacity of over 1,200 beds and ski lifts handling 12,200 skiers per hour. In 1993 the Košuta ski lift was opened.
Between 2000 and 2004, a new Hotel Dobrava was opened, and two four-seat chairlifts were constructed to replaced old and outdated two-seated chairlifts. The artificial snow system was extended and upgraded to make Rogla one of the best ski resorts in Slovenia and the first alpine mountain coaster in Slovenia.
In December 2007 Rogla Fun Park was opened along the Mašinžaga ski slope for skiers and snowboarders.
In October 2010 a new Catholic church was built a top of the mountain. In December 2012 the Jasa II ski lift and slope were opened, intended for snowboard and ski cross.
In June 2014 the new four-star Hotel Natura was opened next to Cross-Country World Cup stadium.
In September 2019 a new high wooden watch tower and trails called the Canopy Trail was opened. It has a total walking distance of. It is only the ninth structure in the world of this kind.
In June 2020, first of this kind in Slovenia, 60 metres long spiral dry slide around outside of 37 meter high wooden Canopy Trail watch tower.

Ski area

Slopes

Lifts

Winter tourism

SeasonNo. of skiersSkiing
days		Rank
2009/10185,000111—
2012/13173,000122—
2013/14151,0001271
2014/15177,0001181
2015/16186,9681321
2016/17188,5281201
2017/18202,2301232
2018/19209,6171262
2019/20150,000121N/A

Accommodation

Rogla is easy accessible from A1 motorway, Slovenian main and busiest route that connects Ljubljana and Maribor. Then you must drive off the motorway at Slovenske Konjice exit, nearby gas station and resting place at Tepanje, then continue way to Zreče and direct uphill drive to Rogla. Some important distances from the resort: Maribor, Graz, Ljubljana, Vienna, Venice, Budapest and Munich.

World Cup

Cross-country skiing

DateGEventWinnerSecondThird
19 December 2009 MSprint C Petter Northug Tobias Angerer Jesper Modin
20 December 2009 M30 km C Mass Petter Northug Alexander Legkov Maxim Vylegzhanin
17 December 2011 MSprint F Petter Northug Dario Cologna Alexey Poltoranin
18 December 2011 M15 km C Mass Petter Northug Alexander Legkov Maxim Vylegzhanin

DateGEventWinnerSecondThird
19 December 2009 LSprint C Marit Bjørgen Justyna Kowalczyk Petra Majdič
20 December 2009 L15 km C Mass Justyna Kowalczyk Marit Bjørgen Anna Haag
17 December 2011 LSprint C Justyna Kowalczyk Therese Johaug Vibeke Skofterud
18 December 2011 L15 km C Mass M. Caspersen Falla Chandra Crawford Ida Ingemarsdotter

Snowboard

DateGEventWinnerSecondThird
8 February 2013 MParallel GS Roland Fischnaller Žan Košir Sylvain Dufour
18 January 2014 MParallel GS Lukas Mathies Žan Košir Sylvain Dufour
31 January 2015 MParallel GS Vic Wild Mirko Felicetti Žan Košir
23 January 2016 MParallel GS Andrey Sobolev Radoslav Yankov Vic Wild
28 January 2017 MParallel GS Nevin Galmarini Radoslav Yankov Žan Košir
20 January 2018 MParallel GS A. Prommegger Edwin Coratti Benjamin Karl
21 January 2018 MParallel GS Benjamin Karl Radoslav Yankov Roland Fischnaller
19 January 2019 MParallel GS Edwin Coratti Daniele Bagozza Rok Marguč
18 January 2020 MParallel GS Edwin Coratti Roland Fischnaller Vic Wild

DateGEventWinnerSecondThird
8 February 2013 LParallel GS Y. Tudegesheva Nicolien Sauerbreij Claudia Riegler
18 January 2014 LParallel GS Ester Ledecká Tomoka Takeuchi Julia Dujmovits
31 January 2015 LParallel GS Marion Kreiner Ina Meschik Selina Jörg
23 January 2016 LParallel GS Ester Ledecká Marion Kreiner Y. Tudegesheva
28 January 2017 LParallel GS Ester Ledecká Carolin Langenhorst Ina Meschik
20 January 2018 LParallel GS Ester Ledecká Claudia Riegler Julia Dujmovits
21 January 2018 LParallel GS R. T. Hofmeister Sabine Schöffmann Alena Zavarzina
19 January 2019 LParallel GS Selina Jörg Natalia Soboleva Cheyenne Loch
18 January 2020 LParallel GS Ester Ledecká R. T. Hofmeister Natalia Soboleva