The ski resort Olpe-Fahlenscheid is the closest ski area to Cologne and numerous towns along the A4 and A45 motorways. However, awareness of this ideal family ski resort in these key source markets is rather low.
The Wurmberg offers the largest and highest ski area in Germany's northernmost mountain range, the Harz. Until December 2012 the Wurmbergseilbahn GmbH & Co. KG plans to invest a total of eight million Euros.
In cooperation with gamon&partner consultancy from Austria, Wald, Wild, Landschaftsökologie from Bad Krozingen and ift Freizeit- und Tourismusberatung consultants from Cologne, Montenius Consult produced a feasibility study of an interconnected system of ski trails between the villages of Masserberg and Goldisthal in the Thuringian Forest.