La Croix de Bauzon
1,364 mVillage altitude
1,499 mTop of the ski area
10 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
La Croix de Bauzon is a winter and summer sports resort in the Massif central located in the territory of the communes of Borne and La Souche, in the département of Ardèche, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image.
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.
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 15 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 156 cm of fresh snow, measured over 36 winters at the Météo-France “LOUBARESSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 36 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,364 m · top 1,499 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?1.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,499 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,259 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 15 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 0%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 10 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 67%
- 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?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 91% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 30 · Nearest railway station: 26 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 35
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 1 · Upcoming events: 0 · 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 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).
11 pistes, by level
5 green5 blue0 red1 black
- Skiable vertical
- 240 m
- Snowpark
- 3 mapped zones — Espace debutant Les Farfades · Espace Debutant Les Ecureuils · Espace ESF (very easy)
- Cross-country skiing
- 5 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20261 kmLongest piste — Les Franboisiers 1 (green), 37 m of vertical
220 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,478 → 1,259 m, 1 km
1,499 mHighest lift top — La Maye (platter lift), national lift register
4,195Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
32 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1967, newest 2014
900Biggest lift, people per hour — Grande Draille (platter lift, 1975)
2 kmTotal length of lifts — 6 lifts mapped
289 haSki area boundary (OSM)
42Inhabitants — Borne (INSEE 07038)
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 Croix de Bauzon only (“CROIX DE BAUZON (LA)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in La Croix de Bauzon
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Collective accommodation
- 1 hotel · 6 rooms
Commune: Borne · 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 La Croix de Bauzon
Without skis on — 4 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Paragliding
- Parapente 07 · Saint-Mélany · 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
Ski school
ESF La Croix De Bauzon
🌐 croixdebauzon.com/FR/cours-ski-esf.html
3 instructors
Source: esf.net
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 → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
8 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.
Safety. Off-piste terrain is neither marked nor made safe by the resort: a transceiver, a shovel, a probe and reading the avalanche bulletin are the minimum — and going with a mountain guide is better still. Today's avalanche risk (Météo-France scale of 1 to 5) will appear here during the season.
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 La Croix de Bauzon
From Paris: 7 hr 01 (601 km) by road.
By road
- From Valence: 1 hr 49 · 107 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 08 · 140 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 47 · 198 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 2 hr 48 · 184 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 57 · 206 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 04 · 229 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 10 · 238 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 32 · 257 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 57 · 316 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 26 · 353 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 26 · 377 km
- From Toulouse: 4 hr 31 · 326 km
- From Nice: 4 hr 47 · 396 km
- From Dijon: 4 hr 58 · 398 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 30 · 458 km
- From Pau: 6 hr 36 · 527 km
- From Bordeaux: 6 hr 39 · 526 km
- From Paris: 7 hr 01 · 601 km
- From Nancy: 7 hr 05 · 609 km
- From Strasbourg: 7 hr 53 · 696 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Luc station
halt · then 26 min drive (21 km)
Nearest main station: Montélimar, 1 hr 21 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
- Nîmes-Garons (FNI): 2 hr 35 by road · 155 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 2 hr 48 by road · 185 km
Take me there
These links open the app with La Croix de Bauzon as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
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 Croix de Bauzon?
La Croix de Bauzon sits at 1,364 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,499 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does La Croix de Bauzon have?
La Croix de Bauzon has 10 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in La Croix de Bauzon?
The longest piste is Les Franboisiers 1: 1 km (green run), for 37 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 Croix de Bauzon?
The highest lift, La Maye (platter lift), tops out at 1,499 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does La Croix de Bauzon have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at La Croix de Bauzon (6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 4,195 people per hour, of which 900 for Grande Draille alone. The fleet spans 1967 to 2014, an average age of 32 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 La Croix de Bauzon?
By road, La Croix de Bauzon is 1 hr 49 from Valence (107 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Luc, 26 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 Nîmes-Garons, 2 hr 35 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to La Croix de Bauzon?
7 hr 01 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 La Croix de Bauzon?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 15 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 156 cm of fresh snow, measured over 36 winters at the Météo-France “LOUBARESSE” station. This verdict rests on 36 winters of Météo-France measurements (1961-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is La Croix de Bauzon good for beginners and families?
91% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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