Les Monts d'Olmes
1,463 mVillage altitude
1,948 mTop of the ski area
16 kmAlpine pistes
12Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
The resort of Les Monts d'Olmes is a French winter sports resort in the Pyrenees mountain range, located on the northern slope of the massif de Tabe, in the territory of the commune of Montferrier, in the département of Ariège.
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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.
Avalanche danger
3-day forecast
Village 1,463 m · top 1,948 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?2.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,948 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,403 m · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 5%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 16 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 78%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?1.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 32% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 0 · 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: 6 hr 14 · Nearest railway station: 53 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 37
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 2 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 65 — 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 — 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).
25 pistes, by level
5 green3 blue15 red2 black
- Skiable vertical
- 545 m
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 — Bisous (red), 347 m of vertical
347 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,752 → 1,405 m, 2 km
1,948 mHighest lift top — Cadene (platter lift), national lift register
11,038Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 1 chairlift, 11 drag lifts
47 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1966, newest 2007
2,045Biggest lift, people per hour — Sources (chairlift, 2007)
8 kmTotal length of lifts — 12 lifts mapped
175 haSki area boundary (OSM)
541Inhabitants — Montferrier (INSEE 09206)
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 Les Monts d'Olmes only (“MONTS D'OLMES”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Les Monts d'Olmes
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Collective accommodation
65 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 7 rooms (1 × 2★)
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 65 bed spaces
Commune: Montferrier · 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 Les Monts d'Olmes
Swimming pool
- Piscine de plein air · Aston · 9.7 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Mini Cure non conventionnée à Ussat les Bains · Ornolac-Ussat-les-Bains · 9.9 km away
Museum
- Musée historique et archéologique · Montségur · 7.9 km away
- Talcaneô - L'espace muséographique · Luzenac · 9.3 km away
- Talcaneô · Luzenac · 9.3 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
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 →Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Les Monts d'Olmes — up to 3,750 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mont Fourcat · Face SW depuis les Monts d'Olmes | 2.1 · F | 850 m | 1,450 → 2,001 m | n/a | 1.1 km |
| Pic Galinat · Depuis les Monts d'Olmes | 2.1 · E1 · PD- | 625 m | 1,490 → 2,115 m | N · NE | 1.1 km |
| Pic de Saint-Barthélemy · Par les Arêtes depuis le Pic du Han | n/a · E2 · AD- | 1,200 m | 1,500 → 2,349 m | n/a | 1.9 km |
| Pic de Saint-Barthélemy · Traversée Monts d'Olmes -Montségur, par les Etangs du Diable et des Truites | n/a · AD | 870 m | 918 → 2,348 m | N | 1.9 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 Les Monts d'Olmes
From Paris: 8 hr 54 (804 km) by road.
By road
- From Toulouse: 1 hr 54 · 128 km
- From Perpignan: 2 hr 27 · 135 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 11 · 240 km
- From Pau: 3 hr 32 · 239 km
- From Bordeaux: 4 hr 18 · 370 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Marseille: 4 hr 52 · 403 km
- From Valence: 5 hr 01 · 438 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 50 · 501 km
- From Grenoble: 5 hr 58 · 529 km
- From Lyon: 6 hr 08 · 537 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 6 hr 24 · 556 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 29 · 561 km
- From Chambéry: 6 hr 43 · 588 km
- From Annecy: 7 hr 08 · 647 km
- From Genève: 7 hr 38 · 684 km
- From Dijon: 8 hr 10 · 729 km
- From Besançon: 8 hr 42 · 789 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 54 · 804 km
- From Nancy: 10 hr 17 · 940 km
- From Strasbourg: 11 hr 05 · 1027 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Foix station
regional station · then 53 min drive (42 km)
Nearest main station: Carcassonne, 1 hr 39 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
- Carcassonne-Salvaza (CCF): 1 hr 37 by road · 83 km
- Toulouse-Blagnac (TLS): 1 hr 59 by road · 138 km
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 46 kW
- FR-S09-E09206-002-1 · Load Stations · 2 points · 46 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 Les Monts d'Olmes?
Les Monts d'Olmes sits at 1,463 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,948 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Les Monts d'Olmes have?
Les Monts d'Olmes has 16 km of slopes, 12 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Les Monts d'Olmes?
The longest piste is Bisous: 2 km (red run), for 347 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 Les Monts d'Olmes?
The highest lift, Cadene (platter lift), tops out at 1,948 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Les Monts d'Olmes have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 12 installations at Les Monts d'Olmes (1 chairlift, 11 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 11,038 people per hour, of which 2,045 for Sources alone. The fleet spans 1966 to 2007, an average age of 47 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 do I get to Les Monts d'Olmes?
By road, Les Monts d'Olmes is 1 hr 54 from Toulouse (128 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Foix, 53 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 Carcassonne-Salvaza, 1 hr 37 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Les Monts d'Olmes?
8 hr 54 for 804 km from central Paris, excluding traffic and winter conditions. Computed on the real road network (OpenStreetMap): allow more on a school-holiday Saturday.
Is Les Monts d'Olmes good for beginners and families?
32% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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