Getting to Pipay
Pipay is 43 min by road from Grenoble (40 km), 6 h 37 from Paris, 23 min from Goncelin railway station.
Pipay is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Theys. The village sits at 1,550 m and the ski area rises to 2,236 m, a skiable vertical of 336 m.
Getting to Pipay
By road
- From Grenoble : 43 min · 40 km
- From Chambéry : 50 min · 54 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 19 · 101 km
- From Valence : 1 h 46 · 133 km
- From Genève : 1 h 49 · 138 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon : 2 h 00 · 152 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 34 · 201 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 52 · 353 km
- From Montpellier : 3 h 53 · 337 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 53 · 321 km
- From Marseille : 3 h 58 · 347 km
- From Besançon : 4 h 08 · 311 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 15 · 485 km
- From Nice : 5 h 36 · 505 km
- From Nancy : 5 h 59 · 564 km
- From Strasbourg : 6 h 04 · 528 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 11 · 572 km
- From Paris : 6 h 37 · 622 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 51 · 707 km
- From Pau : 8 h 05 · 762 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Goncelin station
regional station · then 23 min by road (20 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
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF) : 1 h 01 by road · 61 km
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB) : 1 h 16 by road · 86 km
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By electric car
1 charging location within 2 km
5charging points · up to22 kW
- LES 7 LAUX - Parking journée - Station de Prapoutel · EASYCHARGE · 5points · 22 kW · 1.7 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 des 7 Laux and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September