The Villeneuve ski area

Villeneuve has 202 km of pistes, 24 lifts carrying 28,062 people an hour. 67 green runs, 62 blue, 23 red and 6 black.

Villeneuve is a ski resort in the Southern Alps (Hautes-Alpes), in the commune of La Salle-les-Alpes. The village sits at 1,394 m and the ski area rises to 2,399 m.

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Runs by level

158 runs over 202 km:

67 green 62 blue 23 red 6 black

Slope aspect: 48 % east · 45 % north · 7 % west — computed from the fall line of 94 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 9 September 2026

10 kmLongest piste — Tabuc (black), 633 m of vertical

860 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 2,264 → 1,405 m, 3 km

2,657 mHighest lift top — Eychauda (platter lift), national lift register

28,062Total lift capacity, people per hour — 24 installations: 2 gondolas, 5 chairlifts, 12 drag lifts, 5 magic carpets

27 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1963, newest 2023

2,800Biggest lift, people per hour — Vallons (detachable chairlift, 2010)

51 kmTotal length of lifts — 49 lifts mapped

5,124 haSki area boundary (OSM)

892Inhabitants — La Salle-les-Alpes (INSEE 05161)

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 Villeneuve only (“SERRE CHEVALIER 1400 (LA SALLE)”), magic carpets included.

The lifts

24 lifts , carrying 28,062 people an hour in total , 27 years old on average (from 1963 to 2023).

Type (as registered, in French)	Count	Capacity (people/h)
Télécabines	2	3,320
Télésièges	5	11,900
Téléskis	12	9,282
Tapis roulants	5	3,560

Lift by lift

The 20 lifts whose capacity the register publishes, largest first.

Lift	Type	Capacity	Length	Vertical	Year	Manufacturer
VALLONS	Télésiège débrayable	2,800	2221 m	589 m	2010	BMF BARTHOLET
COTE CHEVALIER	Télésiège débrayable	2,500	2131 m	522 m	2018	POMAGALSKI
PONTILLAS	Télécabine	2,420	3605 m	864 m	2023	POMAGALSKI
LA FORET	Télésiège débrayable	2,400	1504 m	420 m	2005	POMAGALSKI
CLOT GAUTHIER	Télésiège débrayable	2,400	1244 m	392 m	2005	POMAGALSKI
CASSE DU BOEUF	Télésiège débrayable	1,800	2760 m	870 m	1998	POMAGALSKI
TELECORDE DU FRONT DE NEIGE	Télécorde	1,450	82 m	6 m	1999	MONTAGNER
Tapis roulant "LST Couvert du Bas"	Tapis roulant	1,000	23 m	2 m	2017	LST
Tapis Roulant "LST Couvert Haut"	Tapis roulant	1,000	23 m	2 m	2017	LST
La CRETE	Téléski à perche débrayable	900	1234 m	278 m	1978	MONTAZ MAUTINO
ARAVET	Télécabine	900	2027 m	596 m	1975	POMAGALSKI
TAPIS de L'ARAVET 2	Tapis roulant	840	56 m	4 m	2008	SUNKID
COL (ou Clôt)	Téléski à perche débrayable	800	757 m	140 m	1992	POMAGALSKI
LE MICKEY	Téléski à enrouleur	760	327 m	53 m	2011	POMAGALSKI
ALPAGE	Téléski à enrouleur	760	529 m	126 m	2008	DOPPELMAYR
TAPIS ARAVET 1	Tapis roulant	720	56 m	6 m	2007	SUNKID
BARRES	Téléski à perche débrayable	720	1214 m	235 m	1968	POMAGALSKI
ECOLE DE FREJUS	Téléski à perche débrayable	700	155 m	27 m	1978	POMAGALSKI
CHAZELAY	Téléski à perche débrayable	670	253 m	41 m	1963	MONTAZ MAUTINO
EYCHAUDA	Téléski à perche débrayable	652	652 m	243 m	1980	POMAGALSKI

French national lift register (STRMTG / CAIRN database) — listed as “SERRE CHEVALIER 1400 (LA SALLE)” · 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