winter in Iran
Winter with all its difficulties is one of the most beautiful and fun seasons. there are lots of fun in winter that you can look for them like trip in winter
outlooks, snow games and ski.
Tehran is a foothill city and because of this has lots of spectacular location in winter like ski resorts that included: Tochal and villages around city like Lavasan and even interior parks of the city that winter makes their beauty twice.
Ski
Ski is One of the most important winter sports .If you like Skiing in Tehran, there are 3 resorts :
1 .Abali is a city in Rudehen district of Damavand county, Tehran province,Iran.
The first ski resort to open in Iran and thus having a fundamental effect on the sports development in the country. It’s upgraded with newer lifts. Lifts are 300 to 700 Metres long. Located about 57 km north east of Tehran, it is situated at an altitude of 2250 m with a vertical drop of 250 m and offers very nice slopes for beginners and intermediate skiers.
The slope stands at an attitude of 2,800 m. above sea-level in the Haraz Road and at a distance of 50 km from Tehran. This vicinity has scope for other sports like tennis, horse riding and gliding. Three restaurants, a hotel including medical facilities are also available here. The best season for skiing in this area is from late December till mid-March.
2 .Tochal : Tochal ski resort can be reached via a four-mile journey by cable car that leaves from the northern suburbs of Tehran (from Velenjak avenue, 10km from the city). It is one of the longest and cheapest cable cars in the world. At 3963m, Tochal ski resort is the fifth highest resort in the world, ensuring a long season from December to at least April and sometimes June. At the summit of the cable car at Tochal there are four ski lifts, two of which stop just short of the summit at 12,800 feet, from where there are magnificent views of Mt Dammavand.
Shemshak : Shemshak is a ski resort situated to the north-east of Tehran in the Alborz mountain range.
Shemshak is the second largest ski area in Iran after Dizin and came into operation in 1958. It includes two ski lifts, three dish teleskis and two Hammer teleskis.[1] The slopes lie at an altitude of 2550m to 3050m above sea level. The resort includes two main slopes each with a chair lift that apex at the top and several lifts. There are also lighting facilities for night skiing.
Shemshak has classically catered to more advanced skiers while Dizin has drawn beginner, intermediate and advanced skiers. The slopes are quite steep and many of the runs are mogul runs.
Shemshak is conveniently situated just about 55 minutes drive from Tehran, 10 km from middle-slope parking of Dizin and 5 km from Darband-Sar ski resort. two of the best residential complex in Shemshak is ASP build before the revolution and Sepahan residence complex finished end of 2012 in front of the gazoil pist.
Great Lavasan : Great lavasan is one of the village of borough Lavasanat,shemiranat county. Lavasan has a village itself that called ‘’ Shekarab ‘’ and has a beautiful waterfall with same name .There are lots of attractions on the road of this waterfall like river,high montains and orchards that makes this village very attractive.
One of the most famous natural park of this village is carrots plain that you can arrive there after go through 25 km from Tehran to Lashgarak .
Dizin Resort : Dizin is the largest ski resort in Iran and is located 123km by road north of Tehran in the Gajereh region. Dizin offers a long season (late November until late May) of high altitude cruising above the tree-line (at 2700m, the base is higher than the summit of most Alpine resorts) and is an important grass-ski centre in summer. Hotels and other sporting facilities are at Dizin.
Resorts close to Dizin include: Darbandsar (10 km), Shemshak (13 km), Tochal (18 km), Āb Alī (63 km), Tarik Darreh (304 km).
