La Bresse Hohneck

Off season · opens 19 December 2026
Vosges Updated on 21 September 2026
900 mVillage altitude
1,350 mTop of the ski area
31 kmAlpine pistes
19Ski lifts
€41.50Adult day pass · 2026-2027

Located in the commune of La Bresse, the ski area of La Bresse Hohneck is the largest in the massif des Vosges and North-East France, by its size and visitor numbers. It is operated by the company Labellemontagne.

La Bresse Hohneck — view of the resort
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Live webcams

All webcams (9) →
Sommet Petit Artimont Open at the operator ↗
Haut de VologneSkaping
HohneckSkaping
LispachSkaping

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. 5 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 16 October 2026.

Snow, opening and weather

Snow report →

The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 31 winters at the Météo-France “MARKSTEIN CRETE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 31 measured winters →

3-day forecast

Village 900 m · top 1,350 m

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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.

7-day forecast →

SkiRadar ratings

How ratings are computed →Computed on 16 October 2026

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.

  1. SnowCan you count on the snow?
    1.5 / 5

    Top of the ski area: 1,350 m · Bottom of the pistes: 900 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 51 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 1%

  2. Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?
    3.5 / 5

    Km of pistes at the resort: 31 km · Lifts: 19 · Balance between piste levels: 84%

  3. ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?
    3 / 5

    Adult day pass: €41.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €1.34/km · Adult 6-day pass: €249

  4. Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?
    3.5 / 5

    Share of green and blue pistes: 63% · Magic carpets: 4 · Sledging runs: 2 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0 · Famille Plus label

  5. AccessIs it easy to get to?
    2.5 / 5

    Average drive time from 20 major cities: 6 hr 06 · Nearest railway station: 21 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 22

  6. Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?
    1.5 / 5

    Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 4 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 934 — index: what the map and the listings publish

  7. 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: 34% · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €41.50 — 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).

€249 6 days€579.60 Season€35.30 Child, 1 day€16 Beginner, 1 day€12.70 Pedestrian, 1 day

Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗

40 pistes, by level

9 green16 blue14 red1 black
Skiable vertical
450 m
Cross-country skiing
31 km of nordic trails

Ski-area figures — village, bottom, top: ANMSM — figures declared by the resort (16 Oct); km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .

The ski area in figures

Measured on 7 October 2026
2 kmLongest piste — Blanchemer (blue), 290 m of vertical
290 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,200 → 910 m, 2 km
1,375 mHighest lift top — Kastelberg (gauche) (platter lift), national lift register
20,430Total lift capacity, people per hour — 19 installations: 6 chairlifts, 9 drag lifts, 4 magic carpets
28 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1966, newest 2023
3,000Biggest lift, people per hour — Vologne Express (detachable chairlift, 2011)
12 kmTotal length of lifts — 13 lifts mapped
455 haSki area boundary (OSM)
3,853Inhabitants — La Bresse (INSEE 88075)

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 La Bresse Hohneck only (“BRESSE (LA) HOHNECK”), magic carpets included.

Staying and hiring gear in La Bresse Hohneck

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Collective accommodation

934 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels

  • 16 hotels · 338 rooms (1 × 4★, 5 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
  • 2 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 724 bed spaces
  • 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 210 bed spaces
  • 3 campsites · 300 pitches

Commune: La Bresse · 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.
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Gear & equipment

Absolute Snow
UK ski and snowboard shop — delivers to UK addresses only.
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Hardloop
Mountain gear shop: ski touring, avalanche safety, winter clothing.
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Picture
Ski and snowboard jackets, pants and accessories — a French brand.
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Beyond skiing at La Bresse Hohneck

Without skis on — 5 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 2 sledging runs

Toboggan runs

  • Luge d'été · Soultzeren · 4.6 km away
  • Tuby Gliss · Sondernach · 8.1 km away

Ice rink

Swimming pool

Spa and thermal baths

  • Chalets de la Wormsa : Espace bien-être & spa · Metzeral · 6.7 km away
  • Hôtel-Restaurant Perle des Vosges : Espace spa "Vue de l’eau !" · Muhlbach-sur-Munster · 8.1 km away

Dog sledding

Paragliding

Museum

  • Musée de la Schlitte et des Métiers du Bois · Muhlbach-sur-Munster · 8.6 km away

Cinema

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 La Bresse

📞 03 29 25 41 56

🌐 esf-labresse.com

103 instructors

🇬🇧 60 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available

🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗

Source: esf.net

All about the ski school in La Bresse Hohneck →

Resort contacts and documents

Shuttle timetable (PDF)
Depliant bus hivernal 2025 2026 (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 La Bresse Hautes Vosges 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

Named itineraries: Noire

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 La Bresse Hohneck — up to 1,600 m of climb.

Summit and routeSki gradeClimbAltitudeAspectFrom resort
Cabane du Lac de Blanchemer · Blanchemer- Honeck - Kastelberg - Blanchemer1.3 · E1 · F+1,000 m900 → 1,350 mNE1.6 km
Hohneck · tour des rochesn/a200 m909 → 1,177 mN1.8 km
Kastelberg · Depuis Mittlach par le Rainkopf et Blanchemern/a · PD+1,600 m529 → 1,350 mSE2.8 km
Kastelberg · Tricotagen/a · E2 · AD1,000 m850 → 1,350 mn/a2.8 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 ↗

Official piste map

Open the piste map (PDF, 2 MB) ↗

Published by La Bresse Hohneck (Labellemontagne, operator) · file dated 3 December 2025 · link checked on 10 October 2026 · official page

Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.

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 La Bresse Hohneck

From Paris: 5 hr 16 (446 km) by road.

By road

  • From Strasbourg: 1 hr 43 · 115 km
  • From Nancy: 1 hr 45 · 123 km
  • From Besançon: 2 hr 22 · 173 km
  • From Dijon: 3 hr 09 · 254 km
  • From Genève: 4 hr 24 · 344 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Lyon: 4 hr 45 · 413 km
  • From Annecy: 4 hr 54 · 388 km
  • From Paris: 5 hr 16 · 446 km
  • From Chambéry: 5 hr 21 · 429 km
  • From Grenoble: 5 hr 31 · 499 km
  • From Saint-Étienne: 5 hr 34 · 472 km
  • From Valence: 5 hr 51 · 512 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 11 · 552 km
  • From Montpellier: 7 hr 54 · 714 km
  • From Marseille: 7 hr 59 · 723 km
  • From Nice: 8 hr 59 · 740 km
  • From Perpignan: 9 hr 15 · 861 km
  • From Bordeaux: 9 hr 43 · 892 km
  • From Toulouse: 9 hr 47 · 896 km
  • From Pau: 11 hr 44 · 1088 km

Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.

By train

Kruth station

halt · then 21 min drive (19 km)

Nearest main station: Colmar, 49 min 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

  • Bâle-Mulhouse (BSL): 1 hr 22 by road · 85 km
  • Strasbourg-Entzheim (SXB): 1 hr 36 by road · 105 km

Take me there

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Charging an electric car

No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 October 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.

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.

Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.

Frequently asked questions

How high is La Bresse Hohneck?

La Bresse Hohneck sits at 900 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,350 m.

How many kilometres of pistes does La Bresse Hohneck have?

La Bresse Hohneck has 31 km of slopes, 19 lifts.

What is the longest piste in La Bresse Hohneck?

The longest piste is Blanchemer: 2 km (blue run), for 290 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 La Bresse Hohneck?

The highest lift, Kastelberg (gauche) (platter lift), tops out at 1,375 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.

How many lifts does La Bresse Hohneck have, and what is their capacity?

The French national register of mechanical lifts records 19 installations at La Bresse Hohneck (6 chairlifts, 9 drag lifts, 4 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 20,430 people per hour, of which 3,000 for Vologne Express alone. The fleet spans 1966 to 2023, an average age of 28 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 La Bresse Hohneck?

The adult day pass costs €41.50 and the 6-day pass €249 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).

How do I get to La Bresse Hohneck?

By road, La Bresse Hohneck is 1 hr 43 from Strasbourg (115 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Kruth, 21 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 Bâle-Mulhouse, 1 hr 22 away.

How long is the drive from Paris to La Bresse Hohneck?

5 hr 16 for 446 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.

When does La Bresse Hohneck open?

According to the official website, the resort opens on 19 December 2026 (2026-2027 season).

Is the snow reliable in La Bresse Hohneck?

Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 31 winters at the Météo-France “MARKSTEIN CRETE” station. This verdict rests on 31 winters of Météo-France measurements (1989-2026); in season the daily report prevails.

Is La Bresse Hohneck good for beginners and families?

63% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.

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