The Arc 1950 ski area
Arc 1950 has 337 km of pistes, 1,946 m of vertical, from 1,220 m to 3,166 m. 24 green runs, 263 blue, 58 red and 32 black.
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.
Runs by level
377 runs over 337 km:
- Vertical drop
- 1,946 m — from 1,220 m to 3,166 m
- Slope aspect
- 40 % north · 40 % west · 14 % east · 6 % south — computed from the fall line of 259 runs
- Glacier
- Some runs cross a glacier (OpenStreetMap mapping; check summer opening with the resort)
- Night skiing
- 8 floodlit runs
As declared by the resort(ANMSM feed)
- Ski area
- Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry
- Linked area
- Paradiski · 425 km
- Lifts
- 12 in total · 13 gondolas · 58 chairlifts · 45 drag lifts · 27 conveyors
- Altitude
- 2,000 m → 3,200 m (resort base 1,600 m)
- Beginners
- Beginner zone
- Fun & sledging
- 2 sledge runs · fun zone
- Nordic
- Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry · 25.5 km
Figures entered by the resort itself in the ANMSM feed. Our own survey (OpenStreetMap, STRMTG register) is shown above; when the two differ, the resort usually counts its whole linked area.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured on OpenStreetMap (altitudes: IGN RGE ALTI), not taken from the brochure. The vertical above is that of one piste, not of the whole ski area. Population: INSEE municipal population via geo.api.gouv.fr.
Official piste map
Resort data: declared by Les Arcs Bourg Saint Maurice Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September