Bánkút, Ski resort in Nagyvisnyó, Hungary.
Bánkút is a ski area on the Bükk Plateau, with pistes between 780 and 930 metres above sea level. It has eight pistes served by seven lifts, including four blue, two red and two black runs, plus a 1,300-metre longest descent and a 170-metre vertical drop.
In April 1930 Margrave Alfonz Károly Pallavicini granted the Diósgyőr Association 1,045 square fathoms for 25 years to build a tourist house, which cost 33,000 pengő with materials and haulage from Pallavicini and the ironworks. The house opened on 26 October 1930 and was inaugurated at Pentecost 1931. After World War II it closed, and the Bánkút Ski Club took over the area, building the ski lifts and the Mályinka road.
The name Bánkút comes from the spring of the Bán stream. The resort has no permanent residents and is not a closed settlement: most houses, pensions, restaurants and the ski house lie in Heves county, while the pistes fall almost entirely in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county. The Bánkút Ski Club took over as site manager after the tourist house closed following World War II.
Bánkút has eight pistes served by seven lifts, four of them drag lifts with T-bars or discs, and night skiing is possible on four runs. The longest piste is 1,300 metres and the largest skiable vertical drop is 170 metres. Access is via the 25 139 side road branching off route 2513 from Miskolc-Ómassa or Mályinka; a bus runs here at weekends from 2019.
Bánkút's name comes from the spring of the Bán stream, and the settlement has no permanent residents. Its main buildings, including the pensions, restaurants, car park and ski house, lie in Heves County, while the pistes fall almost entirely in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County. In the early 2000s the Hungarian Defence Forces built a 3D NATO radar on the nearby Felső-Borovnyák peak.
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