The Serre Chevalier de Briançon ski area

Serre Chevalier de Briançon has 56 km of pistes, 12 lifts carrying 14,846 people an hour. 13 green runs, 6 blue, 20 red and 1 black.

Serre Chevalier de Briançon is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of Briançon. The village sits at 1,292 m and the ski area rises to 2,296 m.

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Runs by level

40 runs over 56 km:

13 green 6 blue 20 red 1 black

Slope aspect: 73 % east · 15 % south · 11 % north · 1 % west — computed from the fall line of 23 runs

As declared by the resort(ANMSM feed)

Ski area: Serre Chevalier Vallée
Linked area: SERRE CHEVALIER · 250 km
Pistes: 137.029 km · 82 pistes
By grade: 15 green · 26 blue · 28 red · 13 black
Lifts: 59 in total · 5 gondolas · 20 chairlifts · 26 drag lifts · 5 conveyors
Altitude: 1,200 m → 2,800 m
Snowmaking: 33 % of pistes
Beginners: Beginner zone, free lifts
Fun & sledging: 4 snowparks · 1 sledge run · fun zone
Nordic: Serre Chevalier · 99.1 km
Passes (as declared): Adulte 6 jours (forfait domaine relié) 335 € · Adulte 1 jour (forfait domaine relié) 65.5 € · Famille 6 jours (forfait domaine relié) 1159 € (official page)

Figures entered by the resort itself in the ANMSM feed. Our own survey (OpenStreetMap, STRMTG register) is shown above; when the two differ, the resort usually counts its whole linked area.

The ski area in figures

Measured on 13 September 2026

13 kmLongest piste — Chemin (blue), 643 m of vertical

860 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,265 → 1,405 m, 3 km

2,404 mHighest lift top — Rocher Blanc (chairlift), national lift register

14,846Total lift capacity, people per hour — 12 installations: 2 gondolas, 2 chairlifts, 6 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets

27 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1988, newest 2017

2,400Biggest lift, people per hour — Prorel 1 (gondola, 1988)

46 kmTotal length of lifts — 45 lifts mapped

5,124 haSki area boundary (OSM)

11,411Inhabitants — Briançon (INSEE 05023)

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 Serre Chevalier de Briançon only (“SERRE CHEVALIER 1200 (BRIANCON)”), magic carpets included.

The lifts

12 lifts , carrying 14,846 people an hour in total , 27 years old on average (from 1988 to 2017).

Type (as registered, in French)	Count	Capacity (people/h)
Télécabines	2	4,800
Télésièges	2	4,400
Téléskis	6	5,046
Tapis roulants	2	600

Lift by lift

The 12 lifts whose capacity the register publishes, largest first.

Lift	Type	Capacity	Length	Vertical	Year	Manufacturer
ROCHER BLANC	Télésiège	2,400	779 m	138 m	2017	G.M.M.
PROREL 1	Télécabine	2,400	1133 m	415 m	1988	POMAGALSKI
PROREL 2	Télécabine	2,400	2367 m	728 m	1988	POMAGALSKI
LA CROIX DE LA NORE	Télésiège	2,000	388 m	108 m	2014	G.M.M.
TELECORDE DE PRALONG	Téléski à corde	1,500	82 m	9 m	2001	POMAGALSKI
SERRE PELAT	Téléski à perche débrayable	900	1104 m	294 m	1990	POMAGALSKI
STADE DE SLALOM	Téléski à perche débrayable	900	1253 m	385 m	1988	POMAGALSKI
TOURRON	Téléski à perche débrayable	606	176 m	51 m	1988	POMAGALSKI
TAPIS DU PROREL	Tapis roulant	600	21 m	1 m	2004	SUNKID
PITCHOUNET	Téléski à perche débrayable	600	128 m	22 m	1988	POMAGALSKI
BAMBI ESF BAS	Téléski à corde	540	100 m	9 m	1990	SCHIPPERS
LES OURSONS DE PRALONG	Tapis roulant	—	30 m	2 m	2015	EMMEGI

French national lift register (STRMTG / CAIRN database) — listed as “SERRE CHEVALIER 1200 (BRIANCON)” · open the database. Safety register: it also counts lifts that do not run every day.

Official piste map

No downloadable piste map published by the resort.

Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September