Copenhill - Recycled Skiing

Copenhagen´s first ski resort - powered by Skicircus Saalbach Hinterglemm Leogang Fieberbrunn. The Danes now ski on the waste-treatment facility "Amager Ressource Center" in Copenhagen. On the roof of the futuristic building a spectacular, cutting-edge slope was designed for skiers, hikers and bikers. It is a completely new way of using urban resources and perhaps a trendsetting one for urban mountain sports.

The leisure center in Copenhagen is a true lighthouse project. Like a flagship the waste-treatment plant rises higher than Denmark´s highest natural elevation. On the roof of the plant, which supplies 30,000 houeseholds with recycled electricity and 72,000 households with heating, a unique recreational area has been created and it was opend at the weekend from the 4th to 6th October 2019, after a long wait. Today, ski lifts and a 450 -metre-long slope on green matting are attracting ski-savvy Danes to the roof of Copenhill. The range includes its own ski school, ski rental, hiking and mountain running trails, climbing wall, aprés-ski bar and mountain hut cuisine.

The Skicircus is the only Austrian ski cooperation partner of this resort. Mag. Isabella Dschulnigg-Geissler, CEO of the Saalbacher Bergbahnen, explains how this came about: "Sporty Danes are definitely are very important target group with many overnight stays. Copenhill CEO Christian Ingels visited us last winter at the Skicircus and we agreed to use synergies by establishing a cooperation. We very much appreciate the operator´s high awareness level - in the morning, students learn about recycling and in the afternoon they go skiing together. The gondolas and chair lifts as well as the aprés-ski area are branded with the Skicircus logo. Also, raffles and annual events in Copenhill and in the Home of Lässig will sure make skiers in the (mountainless) ski nation long for a visit in the Skicircus."