Getting to Le Fornet

Le Fornet is 2 h 11 by road from Chambéry (139 km), 7 h 58 from Paris, 45 min from Bourg-Saint-Maurice railway station.

Le Fornet is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Savoie), in the commune of Val-d'Isère. The village sits at 1,940 m and the ski area rises to 3,182 m, a skiable vertical of 1,387 m.

Getting to Le Fornet

By road

  • From Chambéry : 2 h 11 · 139 km
  • From Annecy : 2 h 26 · 132 km
  • From Grenoble : 2 h 27 · 168 km
  • From Genève : 3 h 08 · 179 km · avoids Col du Petit-Saint-Bernard, closed in winter
  • From Lyon : 3 h 21 · 237 km
From other major cities (15)
  • From Valence : 3 h 31 · 261 km
  • From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 55 · 286 km
  • From Dijon : 5 h 13 · 438 km
  • From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 14 · 406 km
  • From Besançon : 5 h 28 · 351 km
  • From Montpellier : 5 h 38 · 465 km
  • From Marseille : 5 h 43 · 475 km
  • From Strasbourg : 6 h 57 · 501 km
  • From Perpignan : 6 h 59 · 613 km
  • From Nancy : 7 h 20 · 649 km
  • From Nice : 7 h 21 · 632 km · via Bourg-Saint-Maurice station
  • From Toulouse : 7 h 55 · 699 km
  • From Paris : 7 h 58 · 708 km
  • From Bordeaux : 9 h 12 · 792 km
  • From Pau : 9 h 50 · 889 km

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

By train

Bourg-Saint-Maurice station

regional station · then 45 min by road (34 km)

Nearest main station: Chambéry - Challes-les-Eaux, 2 h 09 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

  • Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 2 h 22 by road · 146 km
  • Genève (GVA) : 3 h 21 by road · 183 km

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By electric car

2 charging locations within 2 km

4charging points · up to7 kW

  • COMMUNE VAL DISERE - LE FORMET · Izivia · 2points · 7 kW · 0.1 km
  • COMMUNE VAL DISERE - LE FORMET · Izivia · 2points · 7 kW · 0.1 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.

Resort data: declared by Office du Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September