Gresse-en-Vercors
Off season · opens 1 December 20261,245 mVillage altitude
1,703 mTop of the ski area
14 kmAlpine pistes
11Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Gresse-en-Vercors is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère). The village sits at 1,245 m and the ski area rises to 1,703 m, a skiable vertical of 455 m.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 1 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the GRESSE station (1,220 m)
Source: Météo-France, GRESSE weather station, 1.5 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 early February to mid-March. 52 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 282 cm of fresh snow, measured over 54 winters at the Météo-France “GRESSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 54 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,245 m · top 1,703 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: 1,703 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,248 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 52 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 38%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 14 km · Lifts: 11 · Balance between piste levels: 94%
- 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: 53% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 12 · Nearest railway station: 19 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 1 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 17
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 7 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 404 — 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).
19 pistes, by level
4 green6 blue7 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 455 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 3 named trails — 6.5 km of marked loops (4.3 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 20261 kmLongest piste — Le Grand Brisou (black), 342 m of vertical
342 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,679 → 1,337 m, 1 km
1,703 mHighest lift top — Pre Leve (platter lift), national lift register
7,788Total lift capacity, people per hour — 11 installations: 1 chairlift, 9 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
43 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1965, newest 2014
1,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Age De Glace (magic carpet, 2014)
7 kmTotal length of lifts — 10 lifts mapped
155 haSki area boundary (OSM)
351Inhabitants — Gresse-en-Vercors (INSEE 38186)
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 Gresse-en-Vercors only (“GRESSE EN VERCORS”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Gresse-en-Vercors
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Collective accommodation
404 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 2 hotels · 37 rooms (2 × 3★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 404 bed spaces
- 1 campsite · 92 pitches
Commune: Gresse-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.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
Montagne Vacances
Flats and chalets in the resort, at direct prices.
Ski hire
Skiset UK
Skiset’s UK site: ski hire in the resort shops, booked in English, paid in pounds.
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 Gresse-en-Vercors
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Swimming pool
- Piscine municipale de Gresse en Vercors · Gresse-en-Vercors · 0.9 km away
- Piscine Municipale de Monestier de Clermont · Monestier-de-Clermont · 6.8 km away
Paragliding
- Is'Air Parapente · Saint-Michel-les-Portes · 4.6 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Scialet - Gresse en Vercors · Gresse-en-Vercors · 1 km away
- Salle de cinéma Jean Giono · Clelles · 9.3 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
Ski school
ESF Gresse En Vercors
16 instructors
🇬🇧 11 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Point info tourisme - Trièves
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 → 1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Les Crêtes -
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 Gresse-en-Vercors — up to 1,200 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pierre Blanche · par le pas de la Ville et l'arête S | 3.1 · E2 · AD | 850 m | 1,245 → 2,100 m | E | 1 km |
| Pierre Blanche · Traversée Pas de la Ville >> Pas de la Posterle - depuis Gresse La Ville | n/a · PD | 850 m | 1,250 → 2,100 m | E | 1 km |
| Pierre Blanche · Face E | 5.2 · E4 · TD | 850 m | 1,248 → 2,100 m | E | 1 km |
| Versant E | n/a · AD | 730 m | 1,245 → 1,976 m | E | 1.1 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 Gresse-en-Vercors
From Paris: 6 hr 39 (625 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 50 min · 53 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 29 · 112 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 47 · 142 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 58 · 159 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 02 · 155 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève: 2 hr 28 · 197 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 36 · 204 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 26 · 245 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 54 · 346 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 55 · 356 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 55 · 324 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 13 · 386 km
- From Nice: 4 hr 45 · 353 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 15 · 494 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 02 · 567 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 11 · 580 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 37 · 623 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 39 · 625 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 54 · 710 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 06 · 770 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Monestier-de-Clermont station
halt · then 19 min drive (16 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 50 min by road.
- From Monestier-de-Clermont station (stop “College-Ecoles (départ)”): line MON02 — GRESSE-MONESTIER DE CLERMONT (REGION - cars Région Isère), 26 min to the “Côte Belette” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays · first 12:10, last 17:10 · 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 17 by road · 95 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 41 by road · 119 km
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 22 kW
- GRESSE EN VERCORS - Parking Public, RD8A · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 22 kW · 1.9 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 14 km of alpine pistes, 19 marked pistes (4 green, 6 blue, 7 red, 2 black), 11 ski lifts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 1 km (Le Grand Brisou) and the highest lift tops out at 1,697 m.
The resort holds the Station Verte label.
Access: 50 min by road from Grenoble and 19 min from Monestier-de-Clermont railway station.
1 official webcam shows the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Gresse-en-Vercors?
Gresse-en-Vercors sits at 1,245 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,703 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Gresse-en-Vercors have?
Gresse-en-Vercors has 14 km of slopes, 11 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Gresse-en-Vercors?
The longest piste is Le Grand Brisou: 1 km (black run), for 342 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 Gresse-en-Vercors?
The highest lift, Pre Leve (platter lift), tops out at 1,703 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Gresse-en-Vercors have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 11 installations at Gresse-en-Vercors (1 chairlift, 9 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 7,788 people per hour, of which 1,000 for Age De Glace alone. The fleet spans 1965 to 2014, an average age of 43 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 Gresse-en-Vercors?
By road, Gresse-en-Vercors is 50 min from Grenoble (53 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Monestier-de-Clermont, 19 min by road from the resort. From Monestier-de-Clermont station, line MON02 — GRESSE-MONESTIER DE CLERMONT (REGION - cars Région Isère) reaches the “Côte Belette” stop in 26 min, 1 departure a day on weekdays. The nearest airport is Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 1 hr 17 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Gresse-en-Vercors?
6 hr 39 for 625 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
What time do the lifts open in Gresse-en-Vercors?
Lifts are announced open from 09:00 to 17:00 (saison 2025-2026 · du 20 décembre 2025 au 8 mars 2026), according to the official website (read on 9 September 2026).
When does Gresse-en-Vercors open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 1 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Gresse-en-Vercors?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from early February to mid-March. 52 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 282 cm of fresh snow, measured over 54 winters at the Météo-France “GRESSE” station. This verdict rests on 54 winters of Météo-France measurements (1963-2019); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Gresse-en-Vercors good for beginners and families?
53% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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