Le Collet d'Allevard
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.
Introduction from the English Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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: 2,083 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: 80%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?3 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 24 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 24 km · Lifts: 10 · 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
Share of green and blue pistes: 62% · Magic carpets: 0 · 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
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.
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,450 m · top 2,083 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.
Average snow depth by month
Good snow from January to February.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.3 h · Dec 5.7 h · Jan 6 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.3 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December46 cmVariable · 70%
- January55 cmGood skiing · 80%
- February70 cmGood skiing · 92%
- March73 cmVariable · 77%
- April—no record
- May—no record
30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.
- Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
- Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
- Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
32 complete winters measured, from 1992-1993 to 2025-2026 — on average 88 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec25 cmInsufficient · 34 %
- 16-31 Dec35 cmVariable · 53 %
- 1-15 Jan49 cmVariable · 70 %
- 16-31 Jan62 cmGood skiing · 85 %
- 1-15 Feb73 cmGood skiing · 89 %
- 16-29 Feb76 cmGood skiing · 88 %
- 1-15 Mar71 cmVariable · 77 %
- 16-31 Mar46 cmVariable · 57 %
- 1-15 Apr24 cmInsufficient · 32 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2012-2013 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 1992-1993 — 3 days at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 371 cm a winter on average, spread over 35 days of snowfall. Measured over 27 complete winters, from 1992-1993 to 2019-2020.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 70 cm — 2011-2012
- Snowiest winter
- 2017-2018 — 621 cm
- Leanest winter
- 1992-1993 — 138 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →37 pistes, by level — 24 km
- Skiable vertical
- 663 m (1,420 m → 2,083 m)
- Lifts
- 4 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone — Boarder Cross
OpenStreetMap, surveyed on 18 September 2026. OpenStreetMap does not map individual features (kickers, rails): what is counted here are the named zones. - Night skiing
- 17 floodlit pistes (OSM)
- Piste aspect
- N 42% · E 5% · S 6% · W 47% (descent direction of 35 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Le Very (1640 m)
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme Belledonne Chartreuse, Bureau du Collet · Place Marcel Dumas 38580 Le collet, 38580 · 04 76 45 01 88 · [email protected] (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- documentation-PODESTNEIG-FR (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme Belledonne Chartreuse, Bureau du Collet and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes (2026-2027) detail →
| Adult pass | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 day | €31 |
| 6 days | €155 |
| Season | €542.50 |
| Child, 1 day | €23.50 |
| Beginner, 1 day | €8 |
| Pedestrian, 1 day | €9.50 |
| Free | free from 75 years |
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Official price list ↗
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured 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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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (1) →Official players of the resort, live image.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 · 317 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 13 September 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 September 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.
Ski touring routes described
Resorts for ski touring →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 |
| Crête des Plagnes · depuis le Collet d'Allevard | n/a | 750 m | 1,400 → 2,096 m | S · W · SW · SE · E | 3.4 km |
| Grand Charnier d'Allevard · Face W : Couloir Central en boucle | 5.2 · E3 · TD- | 2,000 m | 1,630 → 2,561 m | W | 3.5 km |
| Petit Charnier d'Allevard · Face E en boucle | 2.3 · E1 · PD | 1,570 m | 1,248 → 2,181 m | NE | 3.5 km |
| Grand Charnier d'Allevard · Crête NW | 4.3 · E2 | 1,400 m | 1,640 → 2,561 m | n/a | 3.5 km |
| Grand Charnier d'Allevard · Face W - Couloir Dory en boucle | 5.3 · E4 · TD | 1,200 m | 1,630 → 2,561 m | W | 3.5 km |
| Grand Charnier d'Allevard · Traversée Crête NW >> Face N | 5.2 · E2 · TD | 950 m | 1,630 → 2,561 m | N | 3.5 km |
| Brèche de la Cristallière · Couloir NE - depuis Super Collet | 4.2 · E1 | 1,850 m | 1,650 → 2,561 m | NE | 3.7 km |
| Grand Crozet · Face N | 5.1 · E2 · TD- | 1,870 m | 850 → 2,720 m | N | 3.9 km |
Source: Camptocamp.org topo guide (CC BY-SA), routes starting within 10 km, read on 13 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Beyond skiing at Le Collet d'Allevard
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. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Practical information
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 ↗
Tourist office
Office de tourisme
Ski school
ESF Collet D'Allevard
39 instructors
🇬🇧 19 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Ice rink · Patinoire
- Cinema · Bel'donne
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.
Nearby resorts
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 2,083 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Le Collet d'Allevard have?
Le Collet d'Allevard has 24 km of pistes served by 10 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
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, 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.
Is the snow reliable in Le Collet d'Allevard?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; 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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