Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors
Off season1,018 mVillage altitude
1,650 mTop of the ski area
18 kmAlpine pistes
22Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 1,018 m and the ski area rises to 1,650 m, a skiable vertical of 645 m.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Tsf La QuoiWebcam-HD
Départ Tyrolienne SKI ALPIN Méaudre 1300mWebcam-HD
ChatelardWebcam-HD
Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 24 September 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →Open pistes and lifts will appear here during the season, as published by the resort. Out of season we show nothing rather than a misleading zero.
Right now at the AUTRANS station (1,069 m)
Source: Météo-France, AUTRANS weather station, 6.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-February to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 249 cm of fresh snow, measured over 54 winters at the Météo-France “AUTRANS” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 54 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,018 m · top 1,650 m
Forecast corrected for altitude; fresh snow = forecast total at the top; UV = peak of the day. Beyond 3 days, check the resort’s own report. Source:Open-Meteo.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 315 French resorts we cover — 5 stars means “among the best in France on this point”, not “perfect”. Nobody types these in.
- SnowCan you count on the snow?2 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,650 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,005 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 47 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 25%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 18 km · Lifts: 22 · Balance between piste levels: 71%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 69% · Magic carpets: 2 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 3 hr 59 · Nearest railway station: 41 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 1 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 04
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 1 · Restaurants: 7 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 877 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 0% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 — index: what the map and the listings publish
“Atmosphere” and “Luxury” are indexes: they count what OpenStreetMap and the event listings publish within 2.5 km (bars, nightclubs, rated hotels, spas, upcoming events), not what you experience there. A zero means “nothing mapped”, not “nothing there”. Sources per criterion: snow (altitudes declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), STRMTG register, OpenStreetMap; snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (figures declared by the resort (ANMSM, official website), national lift register (STRMTG), OpenStreetMap) ; value (the resort’s official price list) ; families and beginners (OpenStreetMap pistes, price list, ESF ski school, Famille Plus label, OpenStreetMap leisure) ; access (OSRM drive times from 20 cities, SNCF stations, GTFS shuttles, airports) ; atmosphere and après-ski (bars, nightclubs and restaurants within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap), upcoming events (OpenAgenda), collective tourist beds (INSEE)) ; luxury and comfort (rated hotels within 2.5 km (OpenStreetMap) and by category across the commune (INSEE), spas and boutiques (OpenStreetMap), day pass price).
13 pistes, by level
2 green7 blue4 red0 black
- Skiable vertical
- 645 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 13 named trails — 97 km of marked loops (43 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap; top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20262 kmLongest piste — Petits Loups (green), 218 m of vertical
397 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,402 → 1,005 m, 2 km
1,650 mHighest lift top — Cretes (platter lift), national lift register
19,838Total lift capacity, people per hour — 22 installations: 3 chairlifts, 17 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
41 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1962, newest 2014
2,057Biggest lift, people per hour — Combe La Quoi (chairlift, 1989)
5 kmTotal length of lifts — 11 lifts mapped
415 haSki area boundary (OSM)
2,936Inhabitants — Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors (INSEE 38225)
Measured 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.
Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors only (“AUTRANS + MEAUDRE”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors
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Collective accommodation
877 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 7 hotels · 115 rooms (3 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
- 2 holiday villages and family centres · 485 bed spaces
- 2 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 392 bed spaces
- 4 campsites · 327 pitches
Commune: Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Stay & accommodation
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Gear & equipment
Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
Beyond skiing at Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors
Without skis on — 7 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Patinoire André Ravix · Villard-de-Lans · 6.5 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre Aquatique · Villard-de-Lans · 6.5 km away
Dog sledding
- Musher Evasion Polaire · Rencurel · 4.3 km away
Paragliding
- Pente école parapente de l'Aigle · Lans-en-Vercors · 5.9 km away
- Alto - Vol libre parapente / Ecole de parapente · Lans-en-Vercors · 6.6 km away
- Parapente Isère · Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · 6.6 km away
- Bellecombe, site de parapente · Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · 7 km away
Museum
- Micro Musée International et Indépendant de l'Art Postal · Rencurel · 4.4 km away
- La Magie des Automates · Lans-en-Vercors · 5.2 km away
- Maison du Patrimoine · Villard-de-Lans · 6.7 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Clap · Lans-en-Vercors · 5.6 km away
- Cinéma Le Clos · Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · 5.6 km away
- Cinéma Le Rex · Villard-de-Lans · 6.7 km away
Source: DATAtourisme (open data), within 10 km of the resort; places in a large town of the valley are left out. Checked on 12 September 2026. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Tourist office
Office de Tourisme
In case of accident
112 — the European emergency number, free of charge, triggers mountain rescue. On the pistes, the ski patrol number is printed on the piste map and at lift ticket offices. Piste rescue is charged: check your insurance or take the option sold with the lift pass.
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 2 Marked off-piste itineraries · 2 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Aigle · Ours
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors — up to 900 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roche de Méaudre · Versant E | 1.2 · F+ | 630 m | 1,000 → 1,628 m | E | 2.2 km |
| Pas de Gonson · Couloir du Pas de Gonson | 4.3 · E2 | 560 m | 1,005 → 1,591 m | N · NW · W | 2.2 km |
| Pas de Pertuson · Versant E depuis Autrans | n/a | 400 m | 1,035 → 1,435 m | SW | 3.3 km |
| Gros Martel · Par la Balme Noire, le Balcon de la Haute-Bourne depuis le pont de Valchevrière | n/a | 850 m | n/a | n/a | 3.9 km |
The other 8 routes, with grades and vertical →
Not a piste. Neither marked, nor patrolled, nor secured: transceiver, shovel, probe, the day’s avalanche bulletin and, better still, a guide. Ski grade (1.1–5.6) = steepness and commitment; exposure (E1–E4) = consequence of a fall.
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
Pistes coloured by level, lifts as lines. The resort’s official map is the reference in season.
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · pistes © OpenSnowMap (CC-BY-SA) · data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
Getting to Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors
From Paris: 6 hr 27 (601 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 47 min · 37 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 13 · 71 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 29 · 95 km
- From Lyon: 1 hr 50 · 131 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 58 · 142 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 23 · 180 km
- From Genève: 2 hr 27 · 180 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 20 · 275 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 26 · 285 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 42 · 332 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 43 · 299 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 01 · 361 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 42 · 423 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 03 · 443 km
- From Toulouse: 5 hr 38 · 510 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 49 · 543 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 24 · 599 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 27 · 601 km
- From Pau: 7 hr 33 · 700 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 41 · 686 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Saint-Égrève Saint-Robert station
halt · then 41 min drive (35 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 46 min by road.
- From Grenoble station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line CPL01 — GRENOBLE-AUTRANS-LA CHAPELLE EN VERCORS (REGION - cars Région Isère), 1 hr 03 to the “Méaudre Place” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays · first 07:00, last 07:00 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 04 by road · 71 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS): 1 hr 34 by road · 118 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 22 kW
- MEAUDRE - Place Gerard Clet · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.6 km
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 September 2026. Check availability before you leave: the database says what is installed, not what is free tonight.
Road conditions
From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain areas (French “Loi Montagne II”).
Driving times computed on the OpenStreetMap road network (OSRM), SNCF stations (open data), airports (Wikidata). Indicative, not a timetable: allow extra time in snow.
The area offers 18 km of alpine pistes, 13 marked pistes (2 green, 7 blue, 4 red), 22 ski lifts. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 2 km (Petits Loups) and the highest lift tops out at 1,575 m.
The resort holds the Station classée de tourisme label.
Access: 47 min by road from Grenoble and 41 min from Saint-Égrève Saint-Robert railway station.
8 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors sits at 1,018 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,650 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors have?
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors has 18 km of slopes, 22 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
The longest piste is Petits Loups: 2 km (green run), for 218 m of vertical. Measured on the OpenStreetMap map, segments of the same name and level joined end to end, altitudes from the IGN RGE ALTI terrain model — a resort sometimes advertises a longer run by chaining several pistes.
How high do the lifts go in Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
The highest lift, Cretes (platter lift), tops out at 1,650 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 22 installations at Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors (3 chairlifts, 17 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 19,838 people per hour, of which 2,057 for Combe La Quoi alone. The fleet spans 1962 to 2014, an average age of 41 years. This count covers the resort itself, magic carpets included, not the whole linked ski area — a resort brochure often announces a different number. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How do I get to Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
By road, Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors is 47 min from Grenoble (37 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Saint-Égrève Saint-Robert, 41 min by road from the resort. From Grenoble station, line CPL01 — GRENOBLE-AUTRANS-LA CHAPELLE EN VERCORS (REGION - cars Région Isère) reaches the “Méaudre Place” stop in 1 hr 03, 1 departure a day on weekdays. The nearest airport is Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 1 hr 04 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
6 hr 27 for 601 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is the snow reliable in Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-February to late February. 47 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 249 cm of fresh snow, measured over 54 winters at the Météo-France “AUTRANS” station. This verdict rests on 54 winters of Météo-France measurements (1963-2017); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors good for beginners and families?
69% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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