Getting to Le Recoin
Le Recoin is 42 min by road from Grenoble (32 km), 6 h 35 from Paris, 34 min from Grenoble Universités - Gières railway station.
Le Recoin is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Chamrousse. The village sits at 1,650 m and the ski area rises to 2,246 m, a skiable vertical of 835 m.
Getting to Le Recoin
By road
- From Grenoble : 42 min · 32 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 13 · 82 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 42 · 129 km
- From Valence : 1 h 43 · 127 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 58 · 140 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève : 2 h 12 · 167 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 32 · 189 km
- From Montpellier : 3 h 49 · 331 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 50 · 341 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 51 · 308 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 55 · 341 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 09 · 370 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 11 · 479 km
- From Nice : 5 h 30 · 394 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 57 · 552 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 07 · 565 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 26 · 557 km
- From Paris : 6 h 35 · 610 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 49 · 695 km
- From Pau : 8 h 02 · 755 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Grenoble Universités - Gières station
regional station · then 34 min by road (27 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 45 min 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
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 1 h 12 by road · 80 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 24 by road · 90 km
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By electric car
3 charging locations within 2 km
7charging points · up to24 kW
- CHAMROUSSE - Le recoin · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.1 km
- CHAMROUSSE - Place des Trolles · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 1.6 km
- CHAMROUSSE - Rue Du Pere Tasse · EASYCHARGE · 3points · 24 kW · 1.8 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Itinisère (Isère) ↗ — passes, snow chains, winter maintenance
- Bison Futé (national) ↗
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 DE TOURISME and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September