Isola 2000
Off season · opens 5 December 20262,000 mVillage altitude
2,650 mTop of the ski area
120 kmAlpine pistes
18Ski lifts
€44Adult day pass · 2025-2026
Isola 2000 is a ski resort in the southern French Alps. It is located on the territory of the commune of Isola, Alpes-Maritimes. It is one of the Stations du Mercantour, along with Auron and St. Dalmas, and is operated by the council of the Alpes-Maritimes. It is located next to the Mercantour National Park, and is about 90 km from Nice, France.
Live webcams
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Centre stationpanoramic
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Domaine de Géantthe resort’s operator
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Circuit de glace - Vacheriethe resort’s operator
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Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 5 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Right now at the MILLEFONTS-NIVOSE station (2,430 m)
Source: Météo-France, MILLEFONTS-NIVOSE weather station, 7.8 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 122 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 17 winters at the Météo-France “MILLEFONTS-NIVOSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 17 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 2,000 m · top 2,650 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?4 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,650 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,800 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 122 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 63%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 120 km · Lifts: 18 · Balance between piste levels: 86%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €44 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.37/km · Adult 6-day pass: €217
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 65% · Magic carpets: 3 · Sledging runs: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 6 hr 38 · Nearest railway station: 1 hr 31 · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 26
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 8 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,407 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 5
5-star hotels: 0 · 4-star hotels: 0 · Share of hotel rooms in 4 and 5 stars: 14% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €44 — 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).
Lift passes 2025-2026
All prices (child, family, season) →€217 6 days€33.70 Child, 1 day€5 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗
46 pistes, by level
8 green22 blue13 red3 black
- Skiable vertical
- 850 m
- Snowpark
- 4 mapped zones — Boardercross (intermediate) · Snowpark (difficult) · Parkmedium (intermediate) · Jib Zone (intermediate)
Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top, km of pistes, lifts, pistes by level: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct) . The national register attributes 20 lifts to Isola 2000 alone; the figure above comes from the most reliable source.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20263 kmLongest piste — Chamois Chapland (blue), 424 m of vertical
497 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,325 → 1,827 m, 2 km
2,585 mHighest lift top — Sistron (chairlift), national lift register
24,195Total lift capacity, people per hour — 20 installations: 2 gondolas, 7 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets
36 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1971, newest 2023
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Marmottes dit mercantour (gondola, 2005)
18 kmTotal length of lifts — 17 lifts mapped
1,316 haSki area boundary (OSM)
642Inhabitants — Isola (INSEE 06073)
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 Isola 2000 only (“ISOLA 2000”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Isola 2000
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Collective accommodation
1,407 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 180 rooms (1 × 4★, 2 × 3★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 140 bed spaces
- 3 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,267 bed spaces
Commune: Isola · 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
Sowell
Club hotels and flats in the resorts, northern and southern Alps.
Holidu
Holiday-rental comparison site.
Ski Planet
Self-catering flats and all-inclusive ski holidays at the foot of the slopes, since 1999.
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 Isola 2000
Cinema
- Le Club 2000 · OpenStreetMap
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. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Isola 2000
109 instructors
🇬🇧 79 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme - Espace Mercantour · Galerie marchande - Le Pelevos, 06420 · 04.93.23.15.15 · info.isola@nicecotedazurtourisme.com (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- ligne_92 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
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.
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme - Espace Mercantour and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing → 1 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes
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 Isola 2000 — up to 1,600 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tête de Combe Grosse · Tour par le Pas du Loup W | 3.3 · E2 · PD+ | 1,100 m | 2,040 → 2,665 m | n/a | 1.1 km |
| Tête Mercière · Depuis Isola 2000 | n/a · PD | 500 m | 2,000 → 2,491 m | NW | 1.1 km |
| Baisse de Druos · Circuit par le col de Mercière | n/a · PD+ | 628 m | 2,000 → 2,628 m | n/a | 1.4 km |
| Cime de Tavels · Tour Et Sommet | n/a · PD+ | 1,150 m | 2,000 → 2,795 m | n/a | 1.6 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 October 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 Isola 2000
From Paris: 10 hr 27 (828 km) by road.
By road
- From Nice: 1 hr 32 · 90 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 33 · 274 km
- From Grenoble: 4 hr 38 · 255 km
- From Chambéry: 4 hr 48 · 301 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 54 · 403 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Valence: 5 hr 07 · 447 km
- From Annecy: 5 hr 17 · 348 km
- From Genève: 5 hr 39 · 421 km
- From Lyon: 5 hr 50 · 358 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 16 · 551 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 6 hr 23 · 406 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 12 · 637 km
- From Dijon: 7 hr 42 · 558 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 7 hr 43 · 523 km
- From Besançon: 7 hr 52 · 553 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 06 · 827 km
- From Strasbourg: 9 hr 18 · 757 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 35 · 879 km
- From Nancy: 9 hr 49 · 769 km
- From Paris: 10 hr 27 · 828 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
L'Ariane La Trinité station
halt · then 1 hr 31 drive (92 km)
Nearest main station: Nice, 1 hr 33 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 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
- Nice-Côte d’Azur (NCE): 1 hr 26 by road · 85 km
- Cuneo (CUF): 1 hr 39 by road · 81 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Isola 2000 as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
2 charging stations within 2 km
8 charging points · up to 22 kW
- isola 2000 - Centre Médical · IZIVIA · 4 points · 22 kW · 0.3 km
- Isola 2000 - Parking P1 · IZIVIA · 4 points · 22 kW · 1.1 km
Freely accessible charge points read from the French national EV charging database (data.gouv.fr ↗, operators’ own declarations), checked on 9 October 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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Isola 2000?
Isola 2000 sits at 2,000 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,650 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Isola 2000 have?
Isola 2000 has 120 km of slopes, 18 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Isola 2000?
The longest piste is Chamois Chapland: 3 km (blue run), for 424 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 Isola 2000?
The highest lift, Sistron (chairlift), tops out at 2,585 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Isola 2000 have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 20 installations at Isola 2000 (2 gondolas, 7 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 24,195 people per hour, of which 3,000 for Marmottes dit mercantour alone. The fleet spans 1971 to 2023, an average age of 36 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 much is a lift pass in Isola 2000?
The adult day pass costs €44 and the 6-day pass €217 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Isola 2000?
By road, Isola 2000 is 1 hr 32 from Nice (90 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is L'Ariane La Trinité, 1 hr 31 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 Nice-Côte d’Azur, 1 hr 26 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Isola 2000?
10 hr 27 for 828 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 Isola 2000?
Lifts are announced open from 09:00 to 17:00 (saison 2025-2026 · à partir du 6 décembre jusqu'au 19 avril 2026), according to the official website (read on 29 September 2026).
When does Isola 2000 open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 5 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Isola 2000?
Good snow from mid-December to mid-April: a long, reliable season. 122 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 17 winters at the Météo-France “MILLEFONTS-NIVOSE” station. This verdict rests on 17 winters of Météo-France measurements (2008-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Isola 2000 good for beginners and families?
65% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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