From the summits of the Trois Vallées to the glaciers of Val Thorens, France is home to some of the largest ski resorts in the world, with vast ski areas, authentic high-altitude villages and panoramas of Mont Blanc.
This selection brings together the most emblematic resorts of the Northern and Southern Alps, recognised for the size of their ski area, the quality of their snow or their place in the history of French alpine skiing.
Whether you are looking for high-altitude skiing, the chic atmosphere of the Trois Vallées or the great linked areas of Paradiski and the Voie Lactée, these resorts are among the essentials of the French winter.
At 2,300 metres' altitude, Val Thorens is the highest resort in Europe and the high point of the largest ski area in the world, Les 3 Vallées (600 km of pistes, total number of pistes 74, of which 10 green, 30 blue, 26 red, 8 black); between fields of powder and perfectly groomed pistes…
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Val-d'Isère is a French commune and ski resort in the Savoie département and the Rhône-Alpes region, located in Haute-Tarentaise, in the Vanoise massif, at 1,850 m altitude.
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The ski area of the Chamonix valley is divided into four areas: Les Grands Montets, Brévent/Flégère, Domaine de Balme and Les Houches.
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Courchevel is a winter sports resort in the Tarentaise in Savoie. It is a prestigious ski resort, like Gstaad in Switzerland or Aspen in Colorado.
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From late November to late April the Les 2 Alpes ski area lets you discover all kinds of gliding sports over nearly 220 km of pistes.
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Tignes is a French commune in Haute-Tarentaise, in the Savoie département and the Rhône-Alpes region, originally a little mountain village destroyed and engulfed following the construction of the Chevril dam, inaugurated in 1952.
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Alpe d'Huez, nicknamed "the island in the sun" for its exceptional sunshine, is an Isère ski resort set at 1,860 metres' altitude in the Grandes Rousses massif, in the Oisans.
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Méribel is a winter sports resort in the Allues valley in Savoie (France), at 1,450 metres' altitude.
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Serre Chevalier Vallée is in the Hautes-Alpes département, in the PACA region.
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Set on a "full south" plateau overlooking the Morzine valley, Avoriaz 1800 is at the heart of the largest ski area in Europe: Les Portes du Soleil.
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