Les Orres
Les Orres is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes). The village sits at 1,198 m and the ski area rises to 2,246 m, a skiable vertical of 581 m.
The area offers 25 km of alpine pistes, 48 marked pistes (28 green, 5 blue, 12 red, 3 black), 17 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 4 km (Edelweiss 2) and the highest lift tops out at 2,699 m.
The resort holds the Famille Plus and Station classée de tourisme labels.
Access: 2 h 36 by road from Grenoble and 17 min from Embrun railway station.
4 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
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: 2,246 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,665 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 53 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 88%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 25 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 25 km · Lifts: 17 · Balance between piste levels: 77%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?4 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 69% · Magic carpets: 6 · Sledging runs: 13 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2 · Famille Plus label
- AccessIs it easy to get to?2.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 5 hr 23 · Nearest railway station: 17 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 2 hr 53
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 2 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 13 · Upcoming events: 2 · Collective tourist beds: 1,666 — 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 (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.
Right now at the LES ORRES station (1,457 m)
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,198 m · top 2,246 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 March.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 7.2 h · Dec 6.7 h · Jan 7.1 h · Feb 8.3 h · Mar 9.6 h · Apr 10.6 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December38 cmVariable · 70%
- January48 cmGood skiing · 84%
- February66 cmGood skiing · 97%
- March82 cmGood skiing · 100%
- April54 cmVariable · 58%
- 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
52 complete winters measured, from 1968-1969 to 2022-2023 — on average 53 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec11 cmInsufficient · 15 %
- 16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 22 %
- 1-15 Jan26 cmInsufficient · 38 %
- 16-31 Jan34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 1-15 Feb39 cmVariable · 65 %
- 16-29 Feb41 cmVariable · 61 %
- 1-15 Mar34 cmVariable · 53 %
- 16-31 Mar19 cmInsufficient · 33 %
- 1-15 Apr8 cmInsufficient · 12 %
- Best winter of the series
- 1976-1977 — 114 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 1992-1993 — 0 day at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 186 cm a winter on average, spread over 21 days of snowfall. Measured over 53 complete winters, from 1969-1970 to 2022-2023.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 57 cm — 1981-1982
- Snowiest winter
- 2017-2018 — 335 cm
- Leanest winter
- 1992-1993 — 21 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →48 pistes, by level — 25 km
- Skiable vertical
- 581 m (1,665 m → 2,246 m)
- Lifts
- 4 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 6 magic carpets
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 10 km of marked loops (5.5 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Domaine nordique de la Draye area, 4.3 km from the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(2)
Trail Level Length Pra Crozet · Domaine nordique de la Draye difficult 6.2 km Le Belvédère · Domaine Nordique de la Draye intermediate 3.9 km - Snowpark
- 4 mapped zones, 3.1 km from the resort — Snowpark des Fontaines (difficult) · Espace initiation (very easy) · Jardin des Neiges (Bois Méan) (very easy) · Snowpark de Prévieux (easy)
OpenStreetMap, surveyed on 12 September 2026. OpenStreetMap does not map individual features (kickers, rails): what is counted here are the named zones. - Without skis
- 13 sledging runs
- Piste aspect
- N 62% · E 0% · S 3% · W 34% (descent direction of 35 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Le Crystal (1737 m) · Snow Fever (1722 m) · Borne90 : Snow Fever;La Bouscatière (1719 m) · Pizza Bois Méan (1717 m) · La Bulle (1658 m) · A Grand' Cabane (1658 m) · Le Dahu (1657 m) · La Ficelière (1657 m)
- Tourist office
- OFFICE DE TOURISME - SEMLORE · centre station 1650, 05200 · 04 92 44 01 61 · [email protected] (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Piste map (PDF)
- PLAN DES PISTES LES ORRES 2023-2024 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- 560_EMBRUN_LES ORRES_Ete 2025 (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Resort app
- Android (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Famille Plus
- The resort’s family page (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort data: declared by OFFICE DE TOURISME - SEMLORE 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 detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
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 Les Orres only (“ORRES (LES)”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Les Orres
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (4) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 2026.
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 Les Orres
From Paris: 8 hr 25 (714 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 36 · 142 km
- From Marseille: 2 hr 50 · 222 km
- From Chambéry: 3 hr 13 · 220 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 32 · 231 km
- From Annecy: 3 hr 42 · 267 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 3 hr 48 · 244 km
- From Montpellier: 4 hr 08 · 345 km
- From Nice: 4 hr 09 · 331 km · avoids Col de Restefond, closed in winter
- From Genève: 4 hr 11 · 305 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 4 hr 22 · 293 km
- From Perpignan: 5 hr 30 · 493 km
- From Dijon: 5 hr 40 · 445 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 5 hr 41 · 413 km
- From Besançon: 5 hr 59 · 474 km
- From Toulouse: 6 hr 26 · 579 km
- From Nancy: 7 hr 47 · 656 km
- From Pau: 8 hr 20 · 769 km
- From Strasbourg: 8 hr 22 · 712 km
- From Paris: 8 hr 25 · 714 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 49 · 821 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Embrun station
regional station · then 17 min drive (13 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 hr 36 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
- Turin-Caselle (TRN): 2 hr 53 by road · 180 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 3 hr 02 by road · 184 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Les Orres as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
No freely accessible charge point is declared within 2 km of the resort (checked on 9 September 2026). Covered car parks in the resort may offer chargers reserved for their customers: those are not listed here.
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 Les Orres — up to 1,450 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Méale · Versant N | 2.3 · E1 · PD | 1,080 m | 1,350 → 2,426 m | N | 2.5 km |
| Pic de Boussolenc · Versant N en boucle par le Col de Terre Rouge, depuis Les Ribes | 2.3 · E2 · PD+ | 1,400 m | 1,438 → 2,832 m | N | 2.8 km |
| Croix des Enfers · Versant N | 2.3 · E1 · PD- | 1,050 m | 1,492 → 2,524 m | N | 2.9 km |
| Pic de Boussolenc · Versant NE, de la station des Orres | 3.1 · E2 | 160 m | 1,440 → 2,832 m | N | 3.5 km |
| Tête de la Mazelière · Couloir N | 4.1 · E2 · D- | 1,000 m | 1,450 → 2,450 m | N | 3.6 km |
| Tête de la Mazelière · Versant NE | 2.3 · E1 · PD+ | 1,000 m | 1,450 → 2,450 m | NE | 3.6 km |
| Pic de Boussolenc · Face E | 4.3 · E3 · D+ | 1,400 m | 1,440 → 2,832 m | E | 4.3 km |
| Crête du Lauzet · par les cabanes de St Roch (versant NE) | 2.2 · E1 · PD- | 1,200 m | 1,181 → 2,353 m | NE | 4.5 km |
| Le Méale · Versant N - depuis Crevoux | 3.1 · E1 · PD | 950 m | 1,476 → 2,426 m | N | 4.5 km |
| Montagne de l'Alpe de Verdun - Point coté 2769 m · Face NW | n/a · PD | 1,069 m | 1,700 → 2,769 m | NW | 4.6 km |
| Montagne de l'Alpe de Verdun - Point coté 2769 m · Depuis le télésiège de la Pousterle | 3.1 · E1 · PD | 333 m | 1,650 → 2,864 m | N | 4.6 km |
| Tête de Maralouches · Face NW - depuis les Ribes | n/a · PD | 1,450 m | 1,438 → 2,888 m | W | 4.7 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 Les Orres
Toboggan runs
- Luge sur rail L'Orrian Express · Les Orres · 2.4 km away
Ice rink
- Patinoire · Les Orres · 2.5 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre aquatique Aqua Viva · Embrun · 6.9 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Chalet Détente - Les Peupliers · Baratier · 5.3 km away
- Spa Perle d'Eau · Crots · 6.5 km away
- Nuxe Spa La Robéyère · Embrun · 7.1 km away
Dog sledding
- Wild Expériences chiens de traineau · Crévoux · 5.7 km away
- Nunatak Chiens de Traîneau / Chiens Nordiques · Crots · 6.2 km away
Paragliding
- Parapente et multi-activités aériennes - Jennif'Air · Les Orres · 3.2 km away
- S'Air-Ponçon Parapente · Embrun · 7.1 km away
Museum
- Musée traditionnel des Orres · Les Orres · 0 km away
- La Ferme de Téthys - Art et Géologie · Crots · 6.6 km away
- Musée Embrunais de la Charcuterie · Crots · 6.8 km away
- Les Capucins, centre d'art contemporain · Embrun · 6.9 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
1,666 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 5 hotels · 153 rooms (1 × 3★, 3 × 2★)
- 4 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 1,406 bed spaces
- 1 youth hostel or sports centre · 260 bed spaces
Commune: Les Orres · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Ski school
ESF Les Orres
117 instructors
🇬🇧 67 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Cinema · L'Ubac
- Ice rink · Patinoire
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.
What's on around Les Orres
All events →-
19 September 2026 · 10:00
Un trésor de la cathédrale
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Réal · Embrun
Dans la cathédrale Notre-Dame du Réal, la chapelle Sainte-Anne, habituellement fermée, abrite des trésors de tableaux et un petit orgue. Les vitrines installées dans les années 80, exposent des et du…
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Crévoux (9.1 km)
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19 September 2026 · 11:00
Visite commentée - Les Capucins
Embrun centre d'art contemporain les Capucins · Embrun
Dans le cadre des Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, l’équipe du centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins, propose une visite commentée dédiée le samedi 19 septembre à 11h. Retraçant l’histoire de de…
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Hautes-Alpes” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Crévoux (8.8 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Les Orres?
Les Orres sits at 1,198 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 2,246 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Les Orres have?
Les Orres has 25 km of pistes served by 17 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Les Orres?
The longest piste is Edelweiss 2: 4 km (green run), for 578 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 Orres?
The highest lift, GENEPI (ex MARMOTTES) (drag lift), tops out at 2,704 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Les Orres have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 22 installations at Les Orres (7 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 7 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 26,345 people per hour, of which 2,615 for Prelongis alone. The fleet spans 1966 to 2023, an average age of 26 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 Orres?
By road, Les Orres is 2 hr 36 from Grenoble (142 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Embrun, 17 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 Turin-Caselle, 2 hr 53 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Les Orres?
8 hr 25 for 714 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 Les Orres?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.
Is Les Orres good for beginners and families?
69% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather easy area. The resort holds the Famille Plus family label.
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