Saint-Hugues les Egaux
Off season968 mVillage altitude
1,097 mTop of the ski area
2 kmAlpine pistes
4Ski lifts
Not published by any source: adult day pass.
Saint-Hugues les Egaux is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse. The village sits at 968 m and the ski area rises to 1,097 m.
Live webcams
Saint-Hugues les Egaux publishes no public webcam (checked on 12 September 2026 on its website, its tourist office and the operators’ directories). Know of one? Tell us.
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.
Avalanche danger
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 42 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 306 cm of fresh snow, measured over 58 winters at the Météo-France “GRANDE-CHARTREUSE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 58 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 968 m · top 1,097 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?1.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,097 m · Bottom of the pistes: 968 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 42 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 28%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?1.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 2 km · Lifts: 4 · Balance between piste levels: 69%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: no official price list could be found.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 86% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 0
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3.5 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 3 hr 54 · Nearest railway station: 30 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 56 min
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 4 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 0 — 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 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).
7 pistes, by level
2 green4 blue1 red0 black
- Skiable vertical
- 129 m
- Cross-country skiing
- 1 named trail — 11 km of marked loops (8.2 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resort
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone — Snowpark (easy)
Ski-area figures — top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan); km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 20261 kmLongest piste — Coleau (red), 114 m of vertical
114 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,081 → 967 m, 1 km
1,097 mHighest lift top — St HUGUE/COLEAU (platter lift), national lift register
2,500Total lift capacity, people per hour — 4 installations: 4 drag lifts
48 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1969, newest 1987
900Biggest lift, people per hour — Buissonnets (platter lift, 1987)
1 kmTotal length of lifts — 4 lifts mapped
n/aSki area boundary (OSM)
1,003Inhabitants — Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (INSEE 38442)
Measured 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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux only (“SAINT HUGUES”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Saint-Hugues les Egaux
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Collective accommodation
- 3 hotels · 38 rooms (1 × 3★)
- 1 campsite · 100 pitches
Commune: Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux
Without skis on — 1 sledging run
Swimming pool
- Piscine municipale · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 2.6 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Millésime Spa · Saint-Ismier · 8.2 km away
- O d'là de l'O · Lumbin · 8.6 km away
Paragliding
- Ecole de Parapente les Gens d'air · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 3.2 km away
- Site d'atterissage parapente · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 4 km away
- Site de décollage parapente · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 4.9 km away
- Là-Haut Parapente · Plateau-des-Petites-Roches · 6.7 km away
Museum
- Musée Arcabas en Chartreuse · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 1 km away
- Musée de la Grande Chartreuse · Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse · 3.9 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Cartus · Saint-Laurent-du-Pont · 9.8 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.
Ski schools and practical information
Tourist office
Office du Tourisme
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 → 0 Marked off-piste itineraries
4 km Ski touring routes
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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux — up to 1,100 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamechaude - Epaule N · depuis Saint-Hugues | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 700 m | 950 → 1,621 m | N | 2.2 km |
| Roc & Dôme d'Arguille (Pravouta) · Combe du Giglas | 3.1 · E2 · PD+ | 830 m | 940 → 1,768 m | N | 2.6 km |
| Roc & Dôme d'Arguille (Pravouta) · Face W du Dôme - depuis Brevardière | 2.1 · E1 · PD- | 810 m | 950 → 1,768 m | SW | 2.7 km |
| Charmant Som · Par le Collet et le bois de Valombré | 3.3 · E2 · AD+ | 1,100 m | 780 → 1,867 m | N | 2.8 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 ↗
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗Official piste map
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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux
From Paris: 6 hr 19 (590 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 30 min · 25 km
- From Chambéry: 51 min · 42 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 23 · 89 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 28 · 110 km
- From Lyon: 1 hr 42 · 119 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève: 1 hr 53 · 127 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 16 · 168 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 34 · 320 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 35 · 314 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 35 · 288 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 41 · 323 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 53 · 350 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 57 · 462 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 18 · 481 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 41 · 531 km
- From Toulouse: 5 hr 53 · 548 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 08 · 517 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 19 · 590 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 33 · 674 km
- From Pau: 7 hr 48 · 738 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Grenoble station
main station, high-speed trains · then 30 min drive (25 km)
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
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 56 min by road · 59 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 05 by road · 50 km
Take me there
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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.
The area offers 2 km of alpine pistes, 7 marked pistes (2 green, 4 blue, 1 red), 4 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 1 km (Coleau) and the highest lift tops out at 1,081 m.
Access: 30 min by road from Grenoble and 30 min from Grenoble railway station.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
Saint-Hugues les Egaux sits at 968 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,097 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Saint-Hugues les Egaux have?
Saint-Hugues les Egaux has 2 km of slopes, 4 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
The longest piste is Coleau: 1 km (red run), for 114 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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
The highest lift, St HUGUE/COLEAU (platter lift), tops out at 1,097 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Saint-Hugues les Egaux have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 4 installations at Saint-Hugues les Egaux (4 drag lifts), for an authorised capacity of 2,500 people per hour, of which 900 for Buissonnets alone. The fleet spans 1969 to 1987, an average age of 48 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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
By road, Saint-Hugues les Egaux is 30 min from Grenoble (25 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Grenoble (main station, high-speed trains), 30 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 Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 56 min away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
6 hr 19 for 590 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 Saint-Hugues les Egaux?
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years. 42 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, and 306 cm of fresh snow, measured over 58 winters at the Météo-France “GRANDE-CHARTREUSE” station. This verdict rests on 58 winters of Météo-France measurements (1959-2022); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Saint-Hugues les Egaux good for beginners and families?
86% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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