Nordic Skiing and Snowshoeing at Llanos del Hospital

At the head of the Benasque valley, at 1,750 metres and inside the Posets-Maladeta Natural Park, the Hotel Hospital de Benasque runs a Nordic skiing area with groomed circuits and hire of skis, snowshoes and sledges. There are no lifts: you go up and down on your own legs across an open plain beneath the Maladeta massif and the Aneto.

Plan del Hospital, Plan de Están and La Besurta

The circuits are spread over three plains, each a little higher than the last:

• Plan del Hospital, at 1,750 m, next to the hotel. This is the learning area for children and adults and the sledging area.
• Plan de Están, from 1,750 to 1,950 m, intermediate level. You enter from the car park, the hotel, the café, the ticket office and the hire shop, so this is where almost everyone starts.
• Plan de Besurta, from 1,950 to 2,100 m, also intermediate. It can only be reached along the Plan de Están track.

The kilometres open depend on the snow. The last report of last season, on 5 April 2026, gave 14 km of skiable trails: 3 on the Plan del Hospital, 9.5 on the Plan de Están and 1.5 at La Besurta. Check the report and the webcam on their website before heading up.

How the day works

The area opens from 9:30 to 17:00. You park, go to the ticket office and hire shop and set off along the Plan de Están, which starts right there. If you have never cross-country skied, spend the first hour on the Plan del Hospital, the learning area. From 17:00 the machines go out to groom the trails: at that hour you do not walk on the circuits.

For lunch there is the hotel's restaurant-café, right by the trails. The café does not need a reservation; the dining room does, and at weekends it runs in sittings.

Prices this season

The pass is compulsory to use the circuits.

• Day pass: €9.50 for adults and €6 for children up to 12. Hotel guests and groups: €6.50 and €4.50.
• Season pass: €90 for adults and €45 for children.
• Nordic ski hire: classic €13.50, skating €16.50, children €10.50. Hotel guests and groups: €10.50, €14.50 and €9. By the piece, classic skis only €8, skating skis only €11, poles only €8 and boots only €8.
• Snowshoes: €13.50 for adults and €9 for children; hotel guests and groups, €10.50 and €8.
• Sledge: €4 per day.

All prices are per person per day, including VAT.

If you do not ski

Snowshoes are hired at the same place; ask at the ticket office where to go with them, because the groomed circuits are for skiing and the pass is also required on them. Small children have the sledging area on the Plan del Hospital. If you want a long snowshoe outing with a guide, there is the Rutes Pirineus trip to the Forau d'Aigualluts, which starts from right here.

With a dog

The hotel does not allow animals inside the building, the restaurant or the café. Around the building and on the trails, which are inside the natural park, they must be on a lead, and they cannot be left tied at the entrance while you eat.

Driving up from Benasque

It is 13 km of road and 600 metres of climb to the end of the valley. In snow or a blizzard, the road and visibility change quickly and the snowploughs do not always arrive in time, and there are stretches with no coverage or only Movistar. Take chains and read the guide to the Llanos del Hospital road in winter before you set out. The hotel car park is free for guests and for anyone who has booked a table; the Vado car park, public and free, is about 400 metres away, with toilets.