Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
Off season1,074 mVillage altitude
265 kmLinked pistes · Grand Massif
€63Adult day pass · 2026-2027
Not published by any source: top of the ski area. Not retained (conflicting sources): ski lifts.
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Morillon. The village sits at 1,074 m.
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Morillon — Sommet Sairon1,715 m
Flaine — Grandes PlatièresFlaine
Flaine — Aup de VéranFlaine
Each player is the camera operator’s own, loaded only when you ask for it — it may set its own trackers.
Official players of the resort, live image. 4 more cameras on the webcam page. Checked on 12 September 2026.
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.
Right now at the FLAINE_SAPC station (1,611 m)
Source: Météo-France, FLAINE_SAPC weather station, 7.2 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Avalanche danger
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-March. 50 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 325 cm of fresh snow, measured over 12 winters at the Météo-France “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 12 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,074 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?n/a
Not rated: neither the resort nor the map gives the altitude of its highest point.
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km skiable from the resort, linked area included: 265 km
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2 / 5
Adult day pass: €63 · Adult 6-day pass: €378
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 79% · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 35 · Nearest railway station: 24 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 20
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 4 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 15 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,155 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 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: €63 — 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).
Lift passes 2026-2027
All prices (child, family, season) →€378 6 days€1,316 Season€50.40 Child, 1 day€24.80 Beginner, 1 day€11 Pedestrian, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2026-2027 season. Official price list ↗
Staying and hiring gear in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
The partners covering this resort, shown side by side, and the shop to kit out before you leave. Some links earn us a commission — never at the expense of the price or of the data.
Collective accommodation
1,155 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 22 rooms (1 × 3★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 368 bed spaces
- 4 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 787 bed spaces
Commune: Morillon · 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Ice rink
- Jardin de glace à la Patinoire de Samoëns · Samoëns · 4.3 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Samoëns · Samoëns · 3.7 km away
- Espace piscine -Aquacîme · Arâches-la-Frasse · 5 km away
- Le Splash · 2.4 km away · OpenStreetMap
Paragliding
- Profeel parapente · Morillon · 2.1 km away
- Aire d'atterrissage de parapente · Samoëns · 3.7 km away
- Décollage parapente de la Kédeuze · Arâches-la-Frasse · 4.2 km away
- Atterrissage parapente Arâches · Arâches-la-Frasse · 4.2 km away
Museum
- Ferme Ecomusée du Clos Parchet · Samoëns · 4.6 km away
- Musée de l'Horlogerie et du Décolletage · Cluses · 7.1 km away
- Maison du Patrimoine · Taninges · 7.7 km away
- Espace Jacquem'Arts · Taninges · 7.7 km away
Cinema
- Ciné Cluses · Cluses · 6.8 km away
- Cinétoiles - Cinéma Art & Essais · Cluses · 7 km away
- Cinéma Cinébus · Taninges · 7.6 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. Lines marked OpenStreetMap come from the map, within 3 km — opening times on site. Opening times and prices are the operator’s — check before you go.
Ski schools and practical information
Ski school
ESF Morillon - Grand Massif
65 instructors
🇬🇧 46 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Tourist office
Office de tourisme de Morillon
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 → 5 Marked off-piste itineraries · 5 km
1 km Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: ancien Piste rouge Velarge · Coccinelle · Aigle noir · Aiglon
Itineraries surveyed on OpenStreetMap within a 4 km radius (7 September 2026): “marked” means an itinerary exists on the map, not that it is open or safe on the day.
Ski touring routes described
12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Morillon 1100 Les Esserts — up to 1,030 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe des Biollaires · De Morillon | 1.3 · F | 1,011 m | 700 → 1,711 m | n/a | 1.3 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Depuis Morillon par les pistes | 2.1 · E1 · F | 1,030 m | 1,091 → 2,118 m | E | 2.1 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Pointe de la Corne en circuit. | n/a · PD- | 710 m | 1,615 → 2,118 m | N | 3.3 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · depuis les Carroz, par les pistes | n/a · F | 980 m | 1,160 → 2,118 m | NW | 4 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 September 2026. Descriptions and photos are on Camptocamp; an empty cell is a field nobody has filled in. Camptocamp ski touring routes ↗
Getting to Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
From Paris: 6 hr 22 (593 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 56 min · 58 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 08 · 82 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 36 · 124 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 10 · 180 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 30 · 201 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 08 · 260 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 08 · 282 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 24 · 232 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 31 · 314 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 13 · 372 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 15 · 486 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 19 · 450 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 20 · 496 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 33 · 518 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 13 · 514 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 22 · 593 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 36 · 634 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 32 · 720 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 11 · 759 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 27 · 910 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Cluses station
regional station · then 24 min drive (20 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 06 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 20 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
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 20 by road · 67 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 39 by road · 123 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 22 kW
- MORILLON - Parking des Esserts · EASYCHARGE · 4 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.
The area offers 265 km of alpine pistes across Grand Massif, plus a snowpark.
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts belongs to the linked Grand Massif area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 11 km (Cascades) and the highest lift tops out at 2,484 m.
Access: 56 min by road from Genève and 24 min from Cluses railway station.
2 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Frequently asked questions
How high is Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts sits at 1,074 m at village level.
How many kilometres of pistes does Morillon 1100 Les Esserts have?
From Morillon 1100 Les Esserts you can ski 265 km of slopes across Grand Massif.
What is the longest piste in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The longest piste is Cascades: 11 km (red run), for 1,594 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The highest lift, Lindars Nord, tops out at 2,484 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 56 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 59 km.
How much is a lift pass in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The adult day pass costs €63 and the 6-day pass €378 (2026-2027 season, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
By road, Morillon 1100 Les Esserts is 56 min from Genève (58 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Cluses, 24 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 Genève, 1 hr 20 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
6 hr 22 for 593 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to mid-March. 50 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 325 cm of fresh snow, measured over 12 winters at the Météo-France “LES CARROZ VILLAGE” station. This verdict rests on 12 winters of Météo-France measurements (2002-2016); in season the daily report prevails.
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