frenchalps.coField guide
Briançon from the citadel, looking toward the Col du Lautaret

Southern cluster

Briançonnais cluster: Serre-Chevalier and Montgenèvre

Freestyle and snowboard at Serre-Chevalier and Montgenèvre, with ski mountaineering and freeride at Montgenèvre.

Briançon from the citadel, looking toward the Col du Lautaret. Photo: Florian Pépellin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

On this page
  1. What the map actually names
  2. The valleys underneath

The Briançonnais is the southern cluster, in the Hautes-Alpes, close to the Italian border. It is not the ice cluster, and it is a long way from Courchevel.

What the map actually names

Serre-Chevalier is listed for freestyle skiing and snowboard. Montgenèvre is listed for freestyle skiing, snowboard, and ski mountaineering. The 12 October 2026 budget release adds that freeride, as a new ski and snowboard discipline, shares Montgenèvre with ski mountaineering. The event-by-event split — which jump or which park — is not on the public map. Do not treat a magazine's halfpipe-versus-big-air table as an official timetable. The committee has said the day-by-day schedule is still to be built.

Ski mountaineering was added as a sport, with individual races on top of the sprint and mixed relay that Milano Cortina 2026 already had. That addition is from the 12 October release, not from the older FAQ list.

The valleys underneath

Serre Chevalier describes 250 km of linked pistes from Monêtier-les-Bains through La Salle-les-Alpes and Saint-Chaffrey down to Briançon. Montgenèvre's own skipass page separates a French domain of 95 km from the 110 km that include the Monts de la Lune toward Cesana. Turin is the nearest large airport. Lyon is a poor "just pop over" assumption.

Sources

Checked 15 November 2026. If a later organising-committee page disagrees with this one, believe the later page.