{"id":2483,"date":"2019-05-28T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T13:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ultimatesk2stg.wpengine.com\/ski-resorts\/france"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T12:01:08","slug":"france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/","title":{"rendered":"France"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Austrian ski resorts have better nightlife, Switzerland&#8217;s more chocolate-box charm and Italy&#8217;s more affordable mountain restaurants, nowhere can rival France&#8217;s ski resorts when it comes to sheer size of ski area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/features\/ski-destinations\/where-to-stay-and-ski-in-the-3-valleys\/\">Les 3 Vall\u00e9es<\/a> (which includes the resorts of <a title=\"Courchevel\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/courchevel\/\">Courchevel<\/a>, <a title=\"La Tania\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-tania\/\">La Tania,<\/a> <a title=\"Meribel\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/meribel\/\">M\u00e9ribel,<\/a> <a title=\"Val Thorens\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-thorens\/\">Val Thorens, <\/a><a title=\"Les Menuires\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-menuires\/\">Les Menuires<\/a> and <a title=\"St Martin de Belleville\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/st-martin-de-belleville\/\">St Martin de Belleville)<\/a> is the largest lift-linked ski area in the world, and some believe it is bigger than all the ski resorts of Colorado put together. Espace Killy (<a title=\"Tignes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-disere\/\">Val d&#8217;Isere<\/a> and <a title=\"Tignes\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/tignes\/\">Tignes<\/a>), Paradiski (<a title=\"Les Arcs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-arcs\/\">Les Arcs<\/a> and <a title=\"La Plagne\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-plagne\/\">La Plagne<\/a>), Portes du Soleil (<a title=\"Avoriaz\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/avoriaz\/\">Avoriaz,<\/a> <a title=\"Morzine\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/morzine\/\">Morzine,<\/a> <a title=\"Les Gets\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-gets\/\">Les Gets,<\/a> <a title=\"Chatel\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/chatel\/\">Chatel<\/a> etc), the Grand Massif (<a title=\"Flaine\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/flaine\/\">Flaine,<\/a> <a title=\"Samoens\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/samoens\/\">Samoens <\/a>etc), Evasion Mont Blanc (<a title=\"Megeve\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/megeve\/\">Megeve<\/a>, <a title=\"St Gervais\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/st-gervais\/\">Saint Gervais<\/a> etc), the Grand Domain (<a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/alpe-dhuez\/\">Alpe d&#8217;Huez<\/a>, Oz, Vaujany etc), <a title=\"Serre Chevalier\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/serre-chevalier\/\">Serre Chevalier<\/a>, (Le Monetier-les-Bains, Villeneuve, Chantemerle, Brian\u00e7on) and the Franco-Italian <a title=\"Via Lattea\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/italy\/via-lattea\/\">Via Lattea<\/a> (Montgenevre) are all big.<\/p>\r\n<p>And French ski areas are not just sizeable in two dimensions. They have huge verticals too. You can ski continuous 2000m (c. 6,600 feet) vertical descents on piste or off-piste in <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-arcs\/\">Les Arcs<\/a>, <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-plagne\/\">La Plagne<\/a>, <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-deux-alpes\/\">Les Deux Alpes<\/a>, <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/chamonix\/\">Chamonix\/Argentiere<\/a> and <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/alpe-dhuez\/\">Alpe d&#8217;Huez<\/a>. And off-piste meccas like <a title=\"Chamonix\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/chamonix\/\">Chamonix<\/a> and <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-grave\/\">La Grave<\/a> in the Alps, and <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/grand-tourmalet\/\">Grand Tourmalet\/Pic du Midi<\/a> in the French Pyrenees, have almost limitless backcountry for freeriders and ski tourers to explore, with no restricting gates or boundaries.<\/p>\r\n<p>But skiing in France is not all about size. There are French ski resorts that predate winter sports such as the venerable spa town of <a title=\"St Gervais\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/st-gervais\/\">Saint Gervais<\/a> or the historic centre of <a title=\"Val d'Isere\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-disere\/\">Val d&#8217;Isere<\/a> with its ancient church. In the Pyrenees, <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/cauterets\/\">Cauterets<\/a> still resembles the spa resort that Victor Hugo praised in the 19th century and <a href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/grand-tourmalet\/\">Bareges (part of Grand Tourmalet)<\/a> was first made famous by Louis XIV&#8217;s mistress in the 17th century. The small Alpine town of <a title=\"Samoens\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/samoens\/\">Samoens<\/a> is even older and is officially listed as a &#8216;Monument Historique&#8217;. And modern French ski resorts can be attractive too: <a title=\"La Rosiere\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-rosiere\/\">La Rosiere<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/features\/ski-destinations\/arc-2000-arc-1950-ski-resorts-with-a-purpose\/\">Arc 1950<\/a> were purpose-built at high altitude, but they are still nice places to wander around with breathtaking views. France can also do genuine &#8216;rustic charm&#8217; like <a title=\"La Clusaz\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-clusaz\/\">La Clusaz<\/a>; &#8216;austere mountain village charm&#8217; like <a title=\"Val Cenis\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-cenis\/\">Val Cenis<\/a>; and &#8216;luxury charm&#8217; like <a title=\"Megeve\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/megeve\/\">Megeve<\/a>. And even within the famous mega ski areas are a few rural outposts, such as Villard Reculas (part of <a title=\"Alpe D Huez\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/alpe-dhuez\/\">Alpe d&#8217;Huez<\/a>), Champagny en Vanoise (part of <a title=\"La Plagne\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/la-plagne\/\">La Plagne<\/a>), Villaroger (part of <a title=\"Les Arcs\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-arcs\/\">Les Arcs<\/a>), and Venosc (part of <a title=\"Les Deux Alpes\" href=\"\/ski-resorts\/france\/les-deux-alpes\/\">Les Deux Alpes<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ski France: Skiing in France holds a unique appeal. French ski resorts combine high alpine beauty with incomparable gastronomy and world class terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":58170,"parent":1979,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-single-country.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best Ski Resorts in France | Ultimate Ski<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ultimate Ski guide to the best French ski resorts, ski areas, ski lifts, ski schools, ski hire, where to stay, apres-ski and how to get there\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Ski Resorts in France | Ultimate Ski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ultimate Ski guide to the best French ski resorts, ski areas, ski lifts, ski schools, ski hire, where to stay, apres-ski and how to get there\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ultimate Ski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-20T12:01:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/t_Village-\u00a9OT_Alpe_d_Huez_Tourisme_Laurent_Salino-2800x1033.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1034\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/\",\"name\":\"Best Ski Resorts in France | Ultimate Ski\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/t_Village-\u00a9OT_Alpe_d_Huez_Tourisme_Laurent_Salino-2800x1033.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-05-28T13:57:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-20T12:01:08+00:00\",\"description\":\"Ultimate Ski guide to the best French ski resorts, ski areas, ski lifts, ski schools, ski hire, where to stay, apres-ski and how to get there\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/t_Village-\u00a9OT_Alpe_d_Huez_Tourisme_Laurent_Salino-2800x1033.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/t_Village-\u00a9OT_Alpe_d_Huez_Tourisme_Laurent_Salino-2800x1033.jpg\",\"width\":2800,\"height\":1034,\"caption\":\"Photo Credit: \u00a9Alpe d'Huez Tourisme - Laurent Salino\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ski Resorts\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"France\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/\",\"name\":\"Ultimate Ski\",\"description\":\"Ski Resorts, Accomodation &amp; 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