Chile
1 / 4Pillán - Villarrica - a ski resort in Chile. Ski area from 1,380 to 2,440 m, 960 m vertical drop. 6 lifts. Piste map, weather and snowfall. Piste map and weather.
Trail information
Pillán - Villarrica - a small ski resort in the Chile region (Chile).
Good to know
The ski area rises from 1,380 to 2,440 m, with a vertical drop of 1,060 m. The vertical drop is enough for long runs with noticeable changes in terrain. The season usually lasts from June 23 to October 4.
Maps
Video
Contacts and opening hours
Average monthly snowfall at Pillán - Villarrica
Snowfall per month - cm. Below each bar - how many days it snowed that month. Observation data for the last 3 completed seasons.
Accommodation
Santiago
What visitors say about the resort
The praise is for something no other resort offers: skiing on the flank of an active volcano, with Lake Villarrica and native forest in view and Pucon twenty minutes away. More than half the marked terrain is gentle, so families and beginners are well served, and reviewers describe a small, unpolished, almost homely atmosphere. The off-piste is the other draw - after a storm visitors report finding fresh lines all day.
Decaying infrastructure and the weather attract most of the criticism. Most chairlifts stand idle, one has been partly dismantled, and skiers are left with a slow chair from the car park plus surface lifts covering less than 200 m of vertical. North-facing slopes and the warm puelche wind spoil the snow, while rain, fog and gales close the area very often: one account describes a week in which the lifts never ran.
An editorial summary of public reviews on specialist sites. This is not a visitor review: we retell what is written about the resort most often, both praise and criticism.
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