Getting to Plateau de Retord
Plateau de Retord is 1 h 03 by road from Genève (67 km), 5 h 16 from Paris, 31 min from Nurieux-Volognat railway station.
Plateau de Retord is a ski resort in the Jura (Ain), in the commune of Haut Valromey. The village sits at 1,322 m.
Getting to Plateau de Retord
By road
- From Genève : 1 h 03 · 67 km
- From Annecy : 1 h 14 · 69 km
- From Lyon : 1 h 24 · 102 km
- From Chambéry : 1 h 30 · 79 km
- From Grenoble : 2 h 04 · 135 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne : 2 h 13 · 161 km
- From Dijon : 2 h 24 · 214 km
- From Valence : 2 h 30 · 201 km
- From Besançon : 2 h 37 · 231 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 3 h 07 · 272 km
- From Nancy : 4 h 27 · 418 km
- From Montpellier : 4 h 33 · 402 km
- From Marseille : 4 h 38 · 412 km
- From Strasbourg : 5 h 00 · 469 km
- From Paris : 5 h 16 · 493 km
- From Perpignan : 5 h 54 · 550 km
- From Nice : 6 h 16 · 570 km
- From Toulouse : 6 h 50 · 636 km
- From Bordeaux : 7 h 05 · 659 km
- From Pau : 8 h 45 · 826 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Nurieux-Volognat station
halt · then 31 min by road (29 km)
Nearest main station: Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, 32 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
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) : 1 h 14 by road · 96 km
- Genève (GVA) : 1 h 16 by road · 62 km
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By electric car
No publicly accessible charging point within 2 km (checked on 9 September 2026). Chargers reserved to car-park customers are not listed.
Publicly accessible charging points from the French national charging-point database ↗, checked on 9 September 2026. Installed, not necessarily free tonight.
Road conditions
- Inforoute Ain ↗ — 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.