Val Thorens and the Vallon du Lou from the Pointe de la Masse

Resorts

French Alps resorts

Resort guides for the 2030 venues and the other valleys people actually ski.

Val Thorens and the Vallon du Lou from the Pointe de la Masse. Photo: DimiTalen, CC0 1.0.

These are the valleys, not a ranking. Venue resorts and the other major areas are both here. Kilometre totals, where we print them, are labelled as the resort’s or the domain’s, and they link to the source.

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Courchevel

Courchevel, inside Les 3 Vallées, hosts the 2030 speed events, team combined, and ski jumping. The 600 km belong to the whole domain.

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Val d'Isère

Val d'Isère shares 300 km with Tignes and hosts the 2030 technical alpine events on the Face de Bellevarde and La Joseray.

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Tignes

Tignes shares the 300 km Tignes–Val d'Isère pass and the Grande Motte. It is not the named 2030 race venue.

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Méribel

Méribel sits in the middle of Les 3 Vallées. It is a 1992 Olympic resort, and it is not a 2030 competition venue.

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Val Thorens

Val Thorens is the highest resort in Les 3 Vallées and one of the earliest to open. It is not a 2030 race site.

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La Plagne

La Plagne has the 2030 bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track, plus 225 km of its own skiing and the Paradiski link.

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Le Grand-Bornand

Le Grand-Bornand, in the Aravis, is the 2030 biathlon venue. It is not linked by lift to La Clusaz.

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La Clusaz

La Clusaz hosts 2030 cross-country and para Nordic. The alpine area is 125 km across five massifs, a short hop from Geneva.

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Serre Chevalier

Serre Chevalier links 250 km from Monêtier-les-Bains to Briançon and is a 2030 freestyle and snowboard site.

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Montgenèvre

Montgenèvre, on the French–Italian pass, has a 95 km French domain and the 2030 ski-mountaineering and freeride events.

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Chamonix

Chamonix is the 1924 host and a town under Mont Blanc. It is not a 2030 competition venue. Its ski areas are separate.

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Megève

Megève is a Haute-Savoie village resort between the Aravis and Mont Blanc. It is not a 2030 venue.

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Les Deux Alpes

Les Deux Alpes is a high Oisans resort with glacier terrain above the village. It is not a 2030 venue. Grenoble is the nearer airport.

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Valmorel

Valmorel is in the Tarentaise and is sold with Saint-François-Longchamp as Le Grand Domaine. It is not in Les Trois Vallées.

Overview

The French Alps, valley by valley

A map of the French Alps for a ski week: the linked domains, the towns, and the 2030 venues that sit inside them.

Access

Airports for the French Alps

Geneva, Lyon, Chambéry, Grenoble, Turin, and Amsterdam, matched to valleys rather than to a single ‘Alps airport’.

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Courchevel or Chamonix

Courchevel is a linked resort and a 2030 speed venue. Chamonix is a town under Mont Blanc and not a 2030 venue.