Crévoux
Crévoux is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,169 m and the ski area rises to 2,537 m, a skiable vertical of 922 m.
The area offers 26 km of alpine pistes, 24 marked pistes (3 green, 9 blue, 8 red, 4 black), 5 ski lifts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 3 km (L'Ancolie) and the highest lift tops out at 2,537 m.
Access: 2 h 43 by road from Grenoble and 19 min from Embrun railway station.
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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?3.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,537 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,615 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 53 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 94%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 26 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 26 km · Lifts: 5 · Balance between piste levels: 93%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 50% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 28 · Nearest railway station: 19 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 50
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 7 · Upcoming events: 2 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
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 PARPAILLON-NIVOSE station (2,545 m)
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,169 m · top 2,537 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.
Average snow depth by month
Good snow from December to April: a long, reliable season.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7.2 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7.1 h · Feb 8.3 h · Mar 9.6 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November15 cmInsufficient · 19%
- December51 cmGood skiing · 80%
- January74 cmGood skiing · 97%
- February91 cmGood skiing · 100%
- March106 cmGood skiing · 100%
- April71 cmGood skiing · 88%
- May17 cmInsufficient · 26%
30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.
- Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
- Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
- Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
52 complete winters measured, from 1968-1969 to 2022-2023 — on average 53 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec11 cmInsufficient · 15 %
- 16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 22 %
- 1-15 Jan26 cmInsufficient · 38 %
- 16-31 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 65 %
- 16-29 Feb41 cmVariable · 61 %
- 1-15 Mar34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 16-31 Mar19 cmInsufficient · 33 %
- 1-15 Apr8 cmInsufficient · 12 %
- Best winter of the series
- 1976-1977 — 114 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 1992-1993 — 0 day at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 186 cm a winter on average, spread over 21 days of snowfall. Measured over 53 complete winters, from 1969-1970 to 2022-2023.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 57 cm — 1981-1982
- Snowiest winter
- 2017-2018 — 335 cm
- Leanest winter
- 1992-1993 — 21 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →24 pistes, by level — 26 km
- Skiable vertical
- 922 m (1,615 m → 2,537 m)
- Lifts
- 5 drag lifts
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 11 km of marked loops (9.1 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), 1 km from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(2)
Trail Level Length La Coraline intermediate 6.1 km Les Cébières n/a 5.2 km - Without skis
- 2 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
- Piste aspect
- N 76% · E 16% · S 5% · W 3% (descent direction of 32 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Le Titi Lulu (1615 m) · Le 648 Snack (Jo Arnaud Sport) (1608 m) · La Tanière (1608 m)
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
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.
Source: national register of mechanical lifts (STRMTG, CAIRN), fleet as of 1 January 2025 — lifts attributed to Crévoux only (“CREVOUX”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Crévoux
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
Crévoux publishes no public webcam (checked on 12 September 2026 on its website, its tourist office and the operators’ directories). Know of one? Tell us.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 Crévoux
From Paris: 8 hr 32 (722 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 43 · 149 km
- From Marseille: 2 hr 57 · 229 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 10 · 217 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 39 · 264 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 40 · 238 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 3 hr 55 · 251 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 09 · 302 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 15 · 352 km
- From Nice: 4 hr 20 · 339 km · via Embrun station
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 29 · 300 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 37 · 500 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 47 · 452 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 48 · 420 km
- From Besançon: 6 hr 06 · 482 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 33 · 586 km
- From Nancy: 7 hr 54 · 663 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 24 · 691 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 28 · 776 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 32 · 722 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 57 · 828 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Embrun station
regional station · then 19 min drive (16 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 43 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Turin-Caselle (TRN): 2 hr 50 by road · 177 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 3 hr 21 by road · 224 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
- CREVOUX - Pra Vesqua · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 0.2 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.
Off-piste & ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Coni · Evasion · Barres · L'entonnoir · La Banane
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
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Crévoux — up to 1,320 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pic Haut · Versant N | n/a · PD+ | 200 m | 2,350 → 2,518 m | N | 1.1 km |
| Le Méale · Versant N - depuis Crevoux | 3.1 · E1 · PD | 950 m | 1,476 → 2,426 m | N | 1.3 km |
| Montagne Pellat · Versant NE | 2.2 · E1 · PD+ | 1,015 m | 1,660 → 2,675 m | NE | 2.6 km |
| Croix des Enfers · Versant N | 2.3 · E1 · PD- | 1,050 m | 1,492 → 2,524 m | N | 3.1 km |
| La Ratelle · Versant N | 2.1 · E1 · F | 920 m | 1,660 → 2,580 m | N | 3.1 km |
| Pointe de l'Eyssina · Face SW depuis la Chalp | 3.2 · E2 · PD+ | 1,177 m | 1,660 → 2,837 m | SW | 3.5 km |
| Petit Parpaillon · Par le vallon des Eyguettes | 1.2 · E1 | 1,221 m | 1,660 → 2,881 m | N | 3.7 km |
| Tête du Crachet · Tour de l'envers du Crachet | 3.1 · E2 · AD | 1,300 m | 1,660 → 2,919 m | n/a | 3.8 km |
| Tête du Crachet · Depuis la Chalp par le vallon de Crévoux | n/a · PD | 1,260 m | 1,660 → 2,919 m | SW | 3.8 km |
| Grand Parpaillon · Versant N du point 2905 m de la Montagne de Parpaillon | n/a · PD+ | 1,050 m | 1,850 → 2,990 m | N | 3.9 km |
| Grand Parpaillon · Face N | n/a · AD- | 900 m | 2,090 → 2,990 m | N | 3.9 km |
| Petit Parpaillon · En traversée | n/a · PD- | 1,320 m | 1,661 → 2,881 m | N | 4 km |
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 ↗
Beyond skiing at Crévoux
Toboggan runs
- Luge sur rail L'Orrian Express · Les Orres · 7.3 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Les Orres · 7.4 km away
- Patinoire · Risoul · 8.2 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine · Vars · 6.4 km away
- SKISEO - Centre aqualudique et de détente · Risoul · 8.5 km away
- Centre aquatique Aqua Viva · Embrun · 10 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Saï mithra · Risoul · 8.5 km away
- Chalet Détente - Les Peupliers · Baratier · 9.3 km away
- Nuxe Spa La Robéyère · Embrun · 9.6 km away
Dog sledding
- Wild Expériences chiens de traineau · Crévoux · 0.2 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente et multi-activités aériennes - Jennif'Air · Les Orres · 8.2 km away
- S'Air-Ponçon Parapente · Embrun · 9 km away
Museum
- Musée traditionnel des Orres · Les Orres · 5.9 km away
- Les Capucins, centre d'art contemporain · Embrun · 8.8 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.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
- 1 hotel · 14 rooms
Commune: Crévoux · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
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.
What's on around Crévoux
All events →-
19 September 2026 · 10:00
Un trésor de la cathédrale
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Réal · Embrun
Dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame du Réal, la chapelle Sainte-Anne, habituellement fermée, abrite des trésors de tableaux et un petit orgue. Les vitrines installées dans les années 80, exposent des et du…
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Les Orres (7 km)
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19 September 2026 · 11:00
Visite commentée - Les Capucins
Embrun centre d'art contemporain les Capucins · Embrun
Dans le cadre des Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, l’équipe du centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins, propose une visite commentée dédiée le samedi 19 septembre à 11h. Retraçant l’histoire de de…
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Les Orres (6.9 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Crévoux?
Crévoux sits at 1,169 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,537 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Crévoux have?
Crévoux has 26 km of pistes served by 5 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Crévoux?
The longest piste is L'Ancolie: 3 km (blue run), for 697 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 Crévoux?
The highest lift, Pic Du Ratel (platter lift), tops out at 2,393 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Crévoux have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 6 installations at Crévoux (6 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 3,892 people per hour, of which 800 for Pic Du Ratel alone. The fleet spans 1960 to 2010, an average age of 42 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 Crévoux?
By road, Crévoux is 2 hr 43 from Grenoble (149 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Embrun, 19 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Turin-Caselle, 2 hr 50 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Crévoux?
8 hr 32 for 722 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 Crévoux?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to ten winters of reanalysis (estimate); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Crévoux good for beginners and families?
50% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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