Le Collet d'Allevard
Off season · opens 19 December 20261,450 mVillage altitude
2,091 mTop of the ski area
24 kmAlpine pistes
13Ski lifts
€31Adult day pass · 2026-2027
Le Collet d'Allevard is a ski resort in the Belledonne range of the French Alps, located in the department of Isère in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, approximately 11.5 km (7.1 mi) from Allevard. The ski area extends over the communes of Allevard and La Chapelle-du-Bard. The resort was created in 1955 on former communal pastures and served by a new road following the route of the old forest road. The resort reached its current size in 1975, subsequent developments having mainly consisted of improving the existing resort. It is made up of the resort of Collet d'Allevard itself at an altitude of 1,400 m (4,600 ft) as well as the snow areas of Pré Rond at an altitude of 1,550 m (5,090 ft) and Super Collet at an altitude of 1,650 m (5,410 ft). The ski area rises to an altitude of almost 2,100 m (6,900 ft) at Les Plagnes.
Live webcams
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Official players of the resort, live image.
Snow, opening and weather
Snow report →The domain is due to open on 19 December 2026 and close on 29 March 2027. Open pistes and lifts will appear here as soon as the resort publishes its daily report.
Avalanche danger
Good snow from mid-January to late February. 88 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 371 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 32 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,450 m · top 2,091 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: 2,091 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,420 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 88 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 74%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 24 km · Lifts: 13 · Balance between piste levels: 95%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €31 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €1.29/km · Adult 6-day pass: €155
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 62% · Magic carpets: 2 · Sledging runs: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 2 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 15 · Nearest railway station: 31 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 07
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 5 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 318 — 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: €31 — 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) →€155 6 days€542.50 Season€23.50 Child, 1 day€8 Beginner, 1 day€9.50 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
37 pistes, by level
12 green11 blue10 red4 black
- Skiable vertical
- 671 m
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone — Boarder Cross
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 20263 kmLongest piste — Dahu (blue), 440 m of vertical
440 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,083 → 1,644 m, 3 km
2,091 mHighest lift top — Claran (detachable chairlift), national lift register
13,546Total lift capacity, people per hour — 13 installations: 4 chairlifts, 7 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
29 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1969, newest 2016
2,400Biggest lift, people per hour — Grand Paul (chairlift, 1987)
7 kmTotal length of lifts — 10 lifts mapped
214 haSki area boundary (OSM)
3,971Inhabitants — Allevard (INSEE 38006)
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 Le Collet d'Allevard only (“COLLET D'ALLEVARD (LE)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Le Collet d'Allevard
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Collective accommodation
318 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 3 hotels · 47 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 tourist residence or apartment hotel · 318 bed spaces
- 3 campsites · 303 pitches
Commune: Allevard · 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
Terres de France
Holiday residences and apart-hotels, booked direct from the operator.
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 Le Collet d'Allevard
Ice rink
- Patinoire · OpenStreetMap
Swimming pool
- Piscine Allevard · Allevard · 2.4 km away
- Piscine municipale Valgelon-La Rochette · Valgelon-La Rochette · 7.6 km away
- Piscine intercommunale de Pontcharra · Pontcharra · 8.7 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Thermes d'Allevard-les-Bains · Allevard · 2.6 km away
- Espace bien-être Ana Beauté · Allevard · 2.8 km away
Paragliding
- Sacha Parapente Biplace · Allevard · 0.2 km away
- Parapente Pégase et particule · Allevard · 3.3 km away
- Décollage de parapente Val Pelouse · Arvillard · 5.8 km away
Museum
- La Galerie, Musée d'Allevard-les-Bains · Allevard · 2.5 km away
- Musée Forges et Moulins de Pinsot · Le Haut-Bréda · 4 km away
- Musée Saint-Jean · Valgelon-La Rochette · 7.3 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Bel'Donne · Allevard · 2.5 km away
- Cinéma Jean Renoir · Pontcharra · 8.5 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. 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 Collet D'Allevard
39 instructors
🇬🇧 19 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
Source: esf.net
Resort contacts and documents
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme Belledonne Chartreuse, Bureau du Collet · Place Marcel Dumas 38580 Le collet, 38580 · 04 76 45 01 88 · office.lecollet@lecollet.info (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- documentation-PODESTNEIG-FR (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 Belledonne Chartreuse, Bureau du Collet and distributed by ANMSM · read on 16 October
Off the pistes: off-piste and ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Le Collet d'Allevard — up to 2,000 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petit Charnier d'Allevard · Face N en boucle | 4.2 · E1 · AD | 1,570 m | 1,248 → 2,181 m | N | 3 km |
| Grand Charnier d'Allevard · Face N directe | 5.2 · E3 · TD | 1,700 m | 850 → 2,561 m | N | 3.1 km |
| Pointe du Grapillon · Traversée Petit Charnier >> Couloir NE | n/a · AD- | 1,300 m | 1,630 → 2,234 m | NE | 3.2 km |
| Crête des Plagnes · Combe NE (versant Bens) | 2.2 · E1 · F | 500 m | 1,630 → 2,096 m | NW | 3.2 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 Le Collet d'Allevard
From Paris: 6 hr 43 (619 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 54 min · 52 km
- From Chambéry: 56 min · 50 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 25 · 97 km
- From Genève: 1 hr 55 · 135 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 57 · 145 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 2 hr 06 · 149 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 40 · 198 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 58 · 350 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 59 · 315 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 04 · 349 km
- From Marseille: 4 hr 10 · 358 km
- From Besançon: 4 hr 15 · 308 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 26 · 497 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 47 · 516 km
- From Nancy: 6 hr 06 · 561 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 10 · 525 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 22 · 583 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 43 · 619 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 57 · 704 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 17 · 773 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Goncelin station
regional station · then 31 min drive (23 km)
Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 54 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 07 by road · 58 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 27 by road · 98 km
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
5 charging points · up to 22 kW
- ALLEVARD - Station Du Collet · EASYCHARGE · 5 points · 22 kW · 0.2 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 Le Collet d'Allevard?
Le Collet d'Allevard sits at 1,450 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,091 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Collet d'Allevard have?
Le Collet d'Allevard has 24 km of slopes, 13 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Le Collet d'Allevard?
The longest piste is Dahu: 3 km (blue run), for 440 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 Le Collet d'Allevard?
The highest lift, Claran (detachable chairlift), tops out at 2,091 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Le Collet d'Allevard have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 13 installations at Le Collet d'Allevard (4 chairlifts, 7 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 13,546 people per hour, of which 2,400 for Grand Paul alone. The fleet spans 1969 to 2016, an average age of 29 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 Le Collet d'Allevard?
The adult day pass costs €31 and the 6-day pass €155 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Le Collet d'Allevard?
By road, Le Collet d'Allevard is 54 min from Grenoble (52 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Goncelin, 31 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 Chambéry-Savoie, 1 hr 07 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Le Collet d'Allevard?
6 hr 43 for 619 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 Le Collet d'Allevard open?
According to the official website, the resort opens on 19 December 2026 and closes on 29 March 2027 (2026-2027 season).
Is the snow reliable in Le Collet d'Allevard?
Good snow from mid-January to late February. 88 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 371 cm of fresh snow, measured over 32 winters at the Météo-France “ST-SORLIN D'ARVES” station. This verdict rests on 32 winters of Météo-France measurements (1992-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Le Collet d'Allevard good for beginners and families?
62% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area.
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