Straja resort is an Eastern European ski and snowboarding resort, situated at an elevation of 1,440 m in the
Vâlcan Mountains
The Vâlcan Mountains are a chain of mountains in the Southern Carpathians in Gorj County, Romania. They are part of the Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group. They run for approximately and the highest peak is the Vâlcan Peak at . The mountains run th ...
Carpathian Mountains, in the
Jiu Valley
The Jiu Valley ( ro, Valea Jiului ) is a region in southwestern Transylvania, Romania, in Hunedoara county, situated in a valley of the Jiu River between the Retezat Mountains and the Parâng Mountains. The region was heavily industrialised and th ...
region of
Hunedoara County
Hunedoara County () is a county ('' județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion.
Name
In Hungarian, it is known as , in German as , and in Slovak as ...
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Romania
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Access to the resort can be made from
Lupeni (a small mining town), on a 8 km long paved mountain road or by a gondola. The resort is a relatively new one, being declared a resort in 2002.
The Straja resort has about 26 km of ski area. 20 km are equipped with artificial snow. The 11 cable cars provide you with easy access to all the slopes of the resort.
There are 12 slopes, each equipped with a cable car. Five of them also benefit from a nocturnal facility, making it possible to use the slopes until late at night. They are maintained with snow-blowing machines to keep them in the best possible conditions for skiing. The snow season here usually starts in the first week of December and ends in the last week of March.
Due to the construction of the gondola and the chairlift on the Straja Peak (1868m) there are new slopes, the longest being the Straja Strand, with a length of 3.8 km. In season 2016-2017 the chairlift on the Constantinescu Piste had been open, and in the 2017–2018 season, another chair lift had replaced the ski lift number 2.
File:Ski resort Straja 1.jpg, Straja chairlift
File:Ski resort Straja 2.jpg, Straja free ride
File:Straja, Lupeni, Romania (Unsplash).jpg, Back-country
See also
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Jiu Valley
The Jiu Valley ( ro, Valea Jiului ) is a region in southwestern Transylvania, Romania, in Hunedoara county, situated in a valley of the Jiu River between the Retezat Mountains and the Parâng Mountains. The region was heavily industrialised and th ...
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
External links
Jiu Valley Portal- the regional web portal of the Jiu Valley region and host of the official Jiu Valley websites
Enjoy Hunedoara- regional tourism portal
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Jiu Valley
Ski areas and resorts in Romania