La Pierre Saint-Martin
Closed1,635 mVillage altitude
2,148 mTop of the ski area
25 kmAlpine pistes
12Ski lifts
€43.50Adult day pass · 2026-2027
La Pierre Saint-Martin is a winter sports resort located in the massif de la Pierre Saint-Martin in the French part of the Pyrénées chain. The resort is located on the territory of the commune of Arette, in the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Live webcams
All webcams (3) →ACTIVITÉ TRAMPOLINEVision-Environnement
Secteur Haut, ArlasVision-Environnement
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.
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.
Right now at the SOUM COUY-NIVOSE station (2,142 m)
Source: Météo-France, SOUM COUY-NIVOSE weather station, 2.6 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
3-day forecast
Village 1,635 m · top 2,148 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?3 / 5
Top of the ski area: 2,148 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,521 m · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 33%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 25 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 84%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3 / 5
Adult day pass: €43.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €1.74/km · Adult 6-day pass: €235
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 80% · Magic carpets: 3 · Sledging runs: 1 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?1.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 8 hr 16 · Nearest railway station: 39 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 44
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 2 · 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 · Adult day pass: €43.50 — 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€235 6 days€38 Child, 1 day€27 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
51 pistes, by level
17 green24 blue7 red3 black
- Skiable vertical
- 627 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 6 named trails — 11 km of marked loops (6.1 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
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 20262 kmLongest piste — Les Ifs (red), 368 m of vertical
405 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,118 → 1,713 m, 3 km
2,148 mHighest lift top — SOUM COUY dit "Le Panoramique" (chairlift), national lift register
15,274Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 4 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets
25 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1962, newest 2020
2,500Biggest lift, people per hour — MAILHNE dit "Le Family" (detachable chairlift, 2014)
8 kmTotal length of lifts — 10 lifts mapped
431 haSki area boundary (OSM)
1,032Inhabitants — Arette (INSEE 64040)
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 Pierre Saint-Martin only (“PIERRE SAINT MARTIN (LA)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in La Pierre Saint-Martin
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Collective accommodation
- 2 hotels · 29 rooms (2 × 2★)
- 1 campsite · 44 pitches
Commune: Arette · 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 Pierre Saint-Martin
Without skis on — 2 km of snowshoe and walking trails · 1 sledging run
Toboggan runs
- Station de ski La Pierre Saint-Martin · Arette · 0.2 km away
- Espace nordique de La Pierre Saint-Martin · Arette · 0.9 km away
- Espace nordique d'Issarbe · Lanne-en-Barétous · 6.2 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 Pierre Saint Martin
29 instructors
🇬🇧 11 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Office de Tourisme du Haut-Béarn
📍 64570 La Pierre Saint Martin
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: La Combe
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 Pierre Saint-Martin — up to 1,500 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pic d'Arlas · Depuis la Pierre Saint Martin | n/a · E1 · PD | 400 m | 1,650 → 2,044 m | N | 0.7 km |
| Pic du Soum Couy · Depuis la Pierre Saint Martin | n/a · E1 · PD | 665 m | 1,650 → 2,315 m | N | 1.4 km |
| Pic d'Anie · Depuis la Pierre Saint Martin | 4.2 · E1 · D- | 900 m | 1,690 → 2,504 m | W · SW | 2 km |
| Pic d'Anie · depuis le versant espagnol du Col de la Pierre Saint-Martin | n/a · PD+ | 828 m | 1,676 → 2,504 m | n/a | 2.5 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
Open the piste map (image, 2.2 MB) ↗
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 Pierre Saint-Martin
From Paris: 9 hr 36 (861 km) by road.
By road
- From Pau: 1 hr 27 · 73 km
- From Toulouse: 3 hr 38 · 268 km
- From Bordeaux: 3 hr 44 · 283 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 28 · 463 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 55 · 498 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 7 hr 30 · 637 km
- From Marseille: 7 hr 36 · 661 km
- From Valence: 7 hr 45 · 696 km
- From Grenoble: 8 hr 42 · 788 km
- From Lyon: 8 hr 53 · 796 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 8 hr 56 · 675 km
- From Nice: 9 hr 13 · 819 km
- From Chambéry: 9 hr 27 · 846 km
- From Paris: 9 hr 36 · 861 km
- From Annecy: 9 hr 52 · 905 km
- From Genève: 10 hr 22 · 943 km
- From Dijon: 10 hr 25 · 933 km
- From Besançon: 11 hr 01 · 991 km
- From Nancy: 12 hr 32 · 1144 km
- From Strasbourg: 13 hr 25 · 1229 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Bedous station
halt · then 39 min drive (26 km)
Nearest main station: Pau, 1 hr 27 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
- Pau-Pyrénées (PUF): 1 hr 44 by road · 82 km
- Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées (LDE): 2 hr 03 by road · 119 km
Take me there
These links open the app with La Pierre Saint-Martin as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 22 kW
- MOBIVE | Arette la Pierre Saint Martin | Parking Office de Tourisme · Citeos Mobilité Electrique Paris - Cogelum IDF · 2 points · 22 kW · 0 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is La Pierre Saint-Martin?
La Pierre Saint-Martin sits at 1,635 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,148 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does La Pierre Saint-Martin have?
La Pierre Saint-Martin has 25 km of slopes, 12 lifts.
What is the longest piste in La Pierre Saint-Martin?
The longest piste is Les Ifs: 2 km (red run), for 368 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 Pierre Saint-Martin?
The highest lift, SOUM COUY dit "Le Panoramique" (chairlift), tops out at 2,148 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does La Pierre Saint-Martin have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at La Pierre Saint-Martin (4 chairlifts, 5 drag lifts, 3 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 15,274 people per hour, of which 2,500 for MAILHNE dit "Le Family" alone. The fleet spans 1962 to 2020, an average age of 25 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 Pierre Saint-Martin?
The adult day pass costs €43.50 and the 6-day pass €235 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to La Pierre Saint-Martin?
By road, La Pierre Saint-Martin is 1 hr 27 from Pau (73 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Bedous, 39 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 Pau-Pyrénées, 1 hr 44 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to La Pierre Saint-Martin?
9 hr 36 for 861 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is La Pierre Saint-Martin good for beginners and families?
80% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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