Getting to Orcières Merlette 1850
Orcières Merlette 1850 is 2 h 14 by road from Grenoble (119 km), 8 h 02 from Paris, 44 min from Gap railway station. 1 coach line runs directly from the station to the resort.
Orcières Merlette 1850 is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Orcières. The village sits at 1,850 m and the ski area rises to 2,655 m, a skiable vertical of 805 m.
Getting to Orcières Merlette 1850
By road
- From Grenoble : 2 h 14 · 119 km
- From Chambéry : 2 h 52 · 178 km
- From Marseille : 2 h 53 · 220 km
- From Valence : 3 h 10 · 208 km
- From Annecy : 3 h 22 · 225 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon : 3 h 26 · 222 km
- From Genève : 3 h 51 · 263 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 3 h 59 · 270 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 11 · 343 km
- From Nice : 4 h 12 · 329 km
- From Dijon : 5 h 18 · 422 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 5 h 18 · 390 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 33 · 491 km
- From Besançon : 5 h 37 · 452 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 29 · 577 km
- From Nancy : 7 h 25 · 633 km
- From Strasbourg : 8 h 00 · 690 km
- From Paris : 8 h 02 · 692 km
- From Pau : 8 h 24 · 767 km
- From Bordeaux : 8 h 53 · 819 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Gap station
regional station · then 44 min by road (39 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 2 h 13 by road.
- From Gap station (stop « IUT - Pôle d'Échanges Reynier ») : 524 — 524 _ ORCIERES-GAP (ZOU ! Proximité), 45 min to the “Orcières Village Mairie” stop — 1 departure a day on weekdays, 1 a day at weekends · first 12:15, last 18:15 · timetable du 15 décembre 2026 au 31 décembre 2026, Zou ! Proximité · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys, from transport.data.gouv.fr timetables.
By plane
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 2 h 40 by road · 161 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 3 h 04 by road · 186 km
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By electric car
4 charging locations within 2 km
9charging points · up to25 kW
- Parking Rte des grands Prés_ Mairie Orcières · STATIONS-E · 3points · 25 kW · 0.1 km
- Brochier Place du Queyrelet · STATIONS-E · 2points · 24 kW · 0.4 km
- ORCIERES - Merlette, Casse Blanche · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 0.4 km
- ORCIERES - Parking de la Poste · EASYCHARGE · 2points · 22 kW · 1.4 km
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute 05 (Hautes-Alpes) ↗ — 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 d'Orcières and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September