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Skiing & Snowsports in Spindleruv Mlyn
The Czech Republic's leading winter resort, set high in the Krkonose, the Giant Mountains, on the Polish border. Its linked Svaty Petr and Medvedin ski areas offer the country's most extensive pistes and longest season, below Snezka, the highest Czech peak.
Why here
Spindleruv Mlyn is the Czech Republic's leading winter resort, set deep in the Krkonose, the Giant Mountains, the country's highest range on the Polish border. Its linked ski areas, Svaty Petr and Medvedin, offer the most extensive pistes and the longest, most reliable season in the country, with snowmaking, night skiing and slopes for beginners through to World Cup racing. The setting is a national park of spruce forest and glacial cirques below Snezka, the highest Czech peak at 1,603 metres, which draws hikers in summer and ski tourers in winter. It is not the Alps, but for learning to ski, a family week or an easy-access snow trip from Prague, Spindleruv Mlyn is where Czechs themselves go. Long-running ski schools make it a straightforward place to take your first lessons.
Best months
The ski season typically runs from December to March, with the best cover in January and February, and extensive snowmaking backs up the natural snow. Slopes suit beginners and intermediates, with steeper race pistes at Svaty Petr, and the resort runs night skiing. In summer the same mountains switch to hiking and biking. Lessons and rentals are easy to arrange in the village.
Getting there & around
Spindleruv Mlyn is about two to two and a half hours by road northeast of Prague; there is no direct train, so most visitors drive or take a bus via Vrchlabi. Ski schools, rentals and lifts cluster in the village and at the Svaty Petr and Medvedin base stations. Book lessons ahead in the January-February peak and over holidays, when the resort and its access roads are busy.
Skill levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced
Schools & guides (2)
SKOL MAX
SchoolSKOL MAX is the largest ski and snowboard school in the Czech Republic, with a long tradition in the Spindleruv Mlyn resort and around a hundred instructors. It teaches skiing, snowboarding, telemark and cross-country across all parts of the resort, including Svaty Petr, Medvedin, Harmony, Hromovka, Horni Misecky and Labska, for adults and children, in Czech, German, English and Polish. The school also runs equipment rental and sells lift passes.
SnowMonkey Ski School
SchoolSnowMonkey is a ski and snowboard school and rental based in the centre of Spindleruv Mlyn, at Spindleruv Mlyn 168, working across the resort's slopes. It focuses on private lessons for adults and children, along with group tuition and guided skiing, taught by a named local team, and delivers rental gear to hotels. The school is highly rated on TripAdvisor and Google, offers flexible booking with no advance payment, and is an easy first stop for beginners learning on the Krkonose pistes.