Schnepfenried
1,071 mVillage altitude
1,277 mTop of the ski area
9 kmAlpine pistes
7Ski lifts
€25.50Adult day pass · 2025-2026
Le Schnepfenried is a French ski resort located in the massif des Vosges; in the vallée de Munster, in the commune of Sondernach. The ski area has 7 ski lifts and 21 alpine ski pistes.
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Official players of the resort, live image.
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 MARKSTEIN CRETE station (1,184 m)
Source: Météo-France, MARKSTEIN CRETE weather station, 7.2 km away. Hourly measurement — not the resort’s own snow report.
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 31 winters at the Météo-France “MARKSTEIN CRETE” station. Fortnight by fortnight, over 31 measured winters →
3-day forecast
Village 1,071 m · top 1,277 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: 1,277 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,043 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 51 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 1%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 9 km · Lifts: 7 · Balance between piste levels: 99%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?3.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €25.50 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €2.83/km · Adult 6-day pass: €135
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?2 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 41% · Magic carpets: 1 · Sledging runs: 0 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 6 hr 04 · Nearest railway station: 11 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 11
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?1.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 0 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 7 · 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 · Spas and saunas: 0 · Jewellers, watchmakers, fashion boutiques: 0 · Adult day pass: €25.50 — 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 2025-2026
All prices (child, family, season) →€135 6 days€415 Season€22.50 Child, 1 day€18.50 Beginner, 1 day
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. 2025-2026 season, the latest price list published. Official price list ↗
17 pistes, by level
4 green3 blue5 red5 black
- Skiable vertical
- 234 m
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone — SnowPark (intermediate)
- Cross-country skiing
- 5 km of nordic trails
Ski-area figures — bottom, km of pistes, pistes by level: OpenStreetMap (1 Oct); top, lifts: STRMTG — French national lift register (1 Jan) .
The ski area in figures
Measured on 7 October 20261 kmLongest piste — Bronner rouge (red), 192 m of vertical
197 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,234 → 1,037 m, 1 km
1,277 mHighest lift top — Bellevue 1 (platter lift), national lift register
6,400Total lift capacity, people per hour — 7 installations: 6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet
33 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1963, newest 2023
1,480Biggest lift, people per hour — Ecureuil (magic carpet, 2023)
4 kmTotal length of lifts — 7 lifts mapped
78 haSki area boundary (OSM)
590Inhabitants — Sondernach (INSEE 68311)
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 Schnepfenried only (“SCHNEPFENRIED”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Schnepfenried
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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 Schnepfenried
Toboggan runs
- Tuby Gliss · Sondernach · 0.1 km away
- Luge sur rail au Markstein · Linthal · 7.1 km away
- Luge sur rail · Linthal · 7.2 km away
- Luge d'été · Soultzeren · 8.6 km away
Swimming pool
- Spa les sources de la Meurthe · Xonrupt-Longemer · 8.1 km away
- La Piscine : Espace bien-être & fitness · Munster · 9.4 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- Chalets de la Wormsa : Espace bien-être & spa · Metzeral · 2.6 km away
- Hôtel-Restaurant Perle des Vosges : Espace spa "Vue de l’eau !" · Muhlbach-sur-Munster · 5.1 km away
- Hôtel-Restaurant Verte Vallée : Espace bien-être & spa · Munster · 9.2 km away
- Spa de la Piscine · Munster · 9.4 km away
Paragliding
- Site de parapente · Sondernach · 0.7 km away
- Switch - Parapente · Lapoutroie · 6.8 km away
Museum
- Musée de la Schlitte et des Métiers du Bois · Muhlbach-sur-Munster · 5 km away
Cinema
- Espace Culturel Saint Grégoire : Cinéma et salle de spectacles · Munster · 7.5 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
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 → 3 Marked off-piste itineraries · 1 km
— Ski touring routes
Named itineraries: Cross · Brimbelles · Border
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 Schnepfenried — up to 1,850 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rothenbachkopf · Depuis le pont de Blanchemer par le Rainkopf | n/a · PD+ | 1,130 m | 836 → 1,316 m | n/a | 5 km |
| Rothenbachkopf · Depuis le col de Bramont par Ronde Tête et descente sur Steinwasen | n/a · E1 · AD- | 750 m | 956 → 1,316 m | n/a | 5 km |
| Kastelberg · Rainkopf, Kastelberg, Rothenbachkopf | n/a · PD+ | 1,850 m | 710 → 1,350 m | n/a | 5.1 km |
| Kastelberg · Depuis Mittlach par le Rainkopf et Blanchemer | n/a · PD+ | 1,600 m | 529 → 1,350 m | SE | 5.2 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 October 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
Open the piste map (image, 542 KB) ↗
Link to the resort’s own file — a piste map is a copyrighted artwork, we host no copy.
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 Schnepfenried
From Paris: 5 hr 40 (470 km) by road.
By road
- From Strasbourg: 1 hr 35 · 106 km
- From Nancy: 2 hr 10 · 147 km
- From Besançon: 2 hr 18 · 174 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 04 · 256 km
- From Genève: 4 hr 13 · 339 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon: 4 hr 41 · 415 km
- From Annecy: 4 hr 43 · 383 km
- From Chambéry: 5 hr 11 · 425 km
- From Grenoble: 5 hr 27 · 501 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 5 hr 29 · 474 km
- From Paris: 5 hr 40 · 470 km
- From Valence: 5 hr 46 · 514 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 6 hr 07 · 554 km
- From Montpellier: 7 hr 50 · 715 km
- From Marseille: 7 hr 55 · 725 km
- From Nice: 8 hr 49 · 735 km
- From Perpignan: 9 hr 11 · 863 km
- From Bordeaux: 9 hr 39 · 894 km
- From Toulouse: 9 hr 43 · 898 km
- From Pau: 11 hr 40 · 1090 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Metzeral station
halt · then 11 min drive (9 km)
Nearest main station: Colmar, 41 min by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 11 October 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
- Bâle-Mulhouse (BSL): 1 hr 11 by road · 80 km
- Strasbourg-Entzheim (SXB): 1 hr 28 by road · 95 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 October 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 October 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.
Translated from the French Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), machine translation.
Frequently asked questions
How high is Schnepfenried?
Schnepfenried sits at 1,071 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,277 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Schnepfenried have?
Schnepfenried has 9 km of slopes, 7 lifts.
What is the longest piste in Schnepfenried?
The longest piste is Bronner rouge: 1 km (red run), for 192 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 Schnepfenried?
The highest lift, Bellevue 1 (platter lift), tops out at 1,277 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Schnepfenried have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 7 installations at Schnepfenried (6 drag lifts, 1 magic carpet), for an authorised capacity of 6,400 people per hour, of which 1,480 for Ecureuil alone. The fleet spans 1963 to 2023, an average age of 33 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 much is a lift pass in Schnepfenried?
The adult day pass costs €25.50 and the 6-day pass €135 (2025-2026 season, the latest price list published, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Schnepfenried?
By road, Schnepfenried is 1 hr 35 from Strasbourg (106 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Metzeral, 11 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 Bâle-Mulhouse, 1 hr 11 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Schnepfenried?
5 hr 40 for 470 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 Schnepfenried?
Snow cover varies from one winter to the next — the best time runs from mid-January to late February. 51 days a winter at 30 cm or more on average, measured over 31 winters at the Météo-France “MARKSTEIN CRETE” station. This verdict rests on 31 winters of Météo-France measurements (1989-2026); in season the daily report prevails.
Is Schnepfenried good for beginners and families?
41% of the pistes are green or blue: a rather technical area.
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