Getting to Schnepfenried
Schnepfenried is 1 h 35 by road from Strasbourg (106 km), 5 h 40 from Paris, 11 min from Metzeral railway station.
Schnepfenried is a ski resort in the Vosges (Haut-Rhin), in the commune of Sondernach. The village sits at 1,071 m and the ski area rises to 1,253 m, a skiable vertical of 210 m.
Getting to Schnepfenried
By road
- From Strasbourg : 1 h 35 · 106 km
- From Nancy : 2 h 10 · 147 km
- From Besançon : 2 h 18 · 174 km
- From Dijon : 3 h 04 · 256 km
- From Genève : 4 h 13 · 339 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Lyon : 4 h 41 · 415 km
- From Annecy : 4 h 43 · 383 km
- From Chambéry : 5 h 11 · 425 km
- From Grenoble : 5 h 27 · 501 km
- From Saint-Étienne : 5 h 29 · 474 km
- From Paris : 5 h 40 · 470 km
- From Valence : 5 h 46 · 514 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand : 6 h 06 · 557 km
- From Montpellier : 7 h 50 · 715 km
- From Marseille : 7 h 55 · 725 km
- From Nice : 8 h 49 · 735 km
- From Perpignan : 9 h 11 · 863 km
- From Bordeaux : 9 h 39 · 894 km
- From Toulouse : 9 h 43 · 898 km
- From Pau : 11 h 40 · 1090 km
Excluding traffic and winter driving conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Metzeral station
halt · then 11 min by road (9 km)
Nearest main station: Colmar, 41 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
- Bâle-Mulhouse (BSL) : 1 h 11 by road · 80 km
- Strasbourg-Entzheim (SXB) : 1 h 28 by road · 95 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 Alsace ↗ — 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.