Getting to La Forêt Blanche

La Forêt Blanche is 2 h 49 by road from Grenoble (161 km), 8 h 38 from Paris, 18 min from Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre railway station.

La Forêt Blanche is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Vars. The village sits at 1,660 m.

Getting to La Forêt Blanche

By road

  • From Grenoble : 2 h 49 · 161 km
  • From Chambéry : 2 h 59 · 206 km
  • From Marseille : 3 h 11 · 245 km
  • From Annecy : 3 h 28 · 253 km
  • From Valence : 3 h 45 · 250 km
From other major cities (14)
  • From Genève : 3 h 58 · 291 km
  • From Lyon : 4 h 01 · 263 km
  • From Montpellier : 4 h 29 · 367 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 4 h 34 · 312 km
  • From Perpignan : 5 h 51 · 515 km
  • From Dijon : 5 h 53 · 464 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 53 · 432 km
  • From Besançon : 6 h 12 · 494 km
  • From Toulouse : 6 h 47 · 602 km
  • From Nancy : 8 h 00 · 675 km
  • From Strasbourg : 8 h 12 · 681 km
  • From Paris : 8 h 38 · 734 km
  • From Pau : 8 h 41 · 792 km
  • From Bordeaux : 9 h 10 · 844 km

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

By train

Mont-Dauphin - Guillestre station

halt · then 18 min by road (16 km)

Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 h 49 by road.

No direct station-to-resort line in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a shuttle or a taxi.

Shuttles and buses from the station: see also the resort’s official website.

By plane

  • Cuneo (CUF) : 2 h 15 by road · 124 km
  • Turin-Caselle (TRN) : 2 h 39 by road · 167 km

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By electric car

1 charging location within 2 km

2charging points · up to22 kW

  • VARS - Office de Tourisme · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.2 km

Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.

Road conditions

From 1 November to 31 March, snow chains or winter tyres are compulsory in most mountain municipalities (French “loi Montagne II”).

Driving times: OpenStreetMap (OSRM); stations: SNCF open data; airports: Wikidata — read on 9 September 2026. Allow more in the snow.