Getting to Arc 1950
Arc 1950 is 1 h 51 by road from Chambéry (128 km), 7 h 38 from Paris, 28 min from Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway station.
Arc 1950 is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. The village sits at 2,048 m and the ski area rises to 3,166 m, a skiable vertical of 1,946 m.
Getting to Arc 1950
By road
- From Chambéry : 1 h 51 · 128 km
- From Annecy : 2 h 06 · 122 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 07 · 157 km
- From Genève : 2 h 48 · 168 km
- From Lyon : 3 h 01 · 226 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence : 3 h 11 · 250 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 35 · 275 km
- From Dijon : 4 h 53 · 427 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 4 h 54 · 395 km
- From Besançon : 5 h 08 · 340 km
- From Montpellier : 5 h 18 · 454 km
- From Marseille : 5 h 23 · 464 km
- From Nice : 6 h 25 · 468 km
- From Perpignan : 6 h 39 · 602 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 55 · 510 km
- From Nancy : 7 h 00 · 638 km
- From Toulouse : 7 h 35 · 689 km
- From Paris : 7 h 38 · 697 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 52 · 782 km
- From Pau : 9 h 30 · 879 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
regional station · then 28 min by road (25 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 1 h 49 by road.
No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 02 by road · 136 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 2 h 40 by road · 203 km
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By electric car
2 charging locations within 2 km
13charging points · up to22 kW
- Bump - SAGS - Bourg-Saint-Maurice - Lac des Combes · Bump · 5points · 7 kW · 0.5 km
- Bump - SAGS - Bourg-Saint-Maurice - Mont Blanc · Bump · 8points · 22 kW · 0.5 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Savoie Route ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).
Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.
Resort data: declared by Les Arcs Bourg Saint Maurice Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September