Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre
China
1 / 6The Yanqing Olympic centre on Xiaohaituo mountain near Beijing: the 2022 Games courses open to the public, a beginners' zone and China's longest run.
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The centre was built on Xiaohaituo mountain in Yanqing district, some seventy kilometres north-west of central Beijing, for the 2022 Olympics: every alpine skiing event of the Games was held here. A high-speed rail line was laid to the venue, so the trip from the city takes under an hour.
Since the 2022/23 season the centre has been open to the general public, who ski both the Olympic courses and a separate beginners' zone, with a snowboard park in operation. The longest descent, Haituo Traverse, runs fourteen and a half kilometres and is reckoned the longest in China. Almost all the snow here is machine-made. The centre has no website of its own; tickets are sold through the Olympic park's official WeChat account.
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What visitors say about the resort
The praise is for genuine public access to a Beijing 2022 Olympic arena: a beginner zone operates alongside a three-kilometre run back down to the base at a gradient of roughly six degrees, an unusually long easy descent. Visitors like the enclosed cabins with external board racks, the ridge views and the novelty of the place, the only alpine hill in China built to Olympic specification.
Pricing draws criticism, being on a par with the top Chongli resorts, as do steep coaching fees and the large deposit demanded of anyone without their own equipment. Only a fraction of the runs is open to the public, mostly the sightseeing loop, which narrows to four or five metres in places and flattens enough to strand snowboarders. Reaching the top means changing between four cable cars, a shuttle links the car park to the rental hall, and signage is confusing. Wind and fog on the ridge are frequent.
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