Lans en Vercor
Lans en Vercor is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Isère), in the commune of Lans-en-Vercors. The village sits at 1,374 m and the ski area rises to 1,784 m, a skiable vertical of 425 m.
The area offers 25 km of alpine pistes, 37 marked pistes (11 green, 18 blue, 7 red, 1 black), 12 ski lifts. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 2 km (Chevreuils) and the highest lift tops out at 1,789 m.
The resort holds the Flocon Vert and Station Verte labels.
Access: 40 min by road from Grenoble and 38 min from Échirolles railway station.
13 official webcams show the pistes live (on the French page).
Seven criteria rated from 1 to 5 stars, in half-stars, from this page's sourced data. A rating is a rank among the 322 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?2.5 / 5
Top of the ski area: 1,784 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,359 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 100 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 25%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?2.5 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 25 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 25 km · Lifts: 12 · Balance between piste levels: 81%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?n/a
Not rated: “adult day pass” is missing from this page.
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 78% · Magic carpets: 0 · Sledging runs: 1 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 2
- AccessIs it easy to get to?4 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 00 · Nearest railway station: 38 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 6 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 01
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?2.5 / 5
Bars and pubs: 1 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 9 · Upcoming events: 1 · 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 (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata), snow depth observed at the Météo-France station, ERA5-Land model) ; ski area (OpenStreetMap pistes and lifts, linked area (Wikidata)) ; 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).
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
7-day forecast
Village 1,374 m · top 1,784 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.
Average snow depth by month
Natural snow is low on average: skiing depends on snowmaking and good years.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 5.8 h · Dec 5.3 h · Jan 5.2 h · Feb 6.9 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 9.8 h — 25 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December—no record
- January20 cmInsufficient · 19%
- February23 cmInsufficient · 44%
- March25 cmInsufficient · 37%
- April—no record
- May—no record
30 cm on the ground: the benchmark for groomed-piste skiing. Bar = monthly average depth; percentage = share of time above 30 cm.
- Good skiing: 30 cm on more than 8 days in 10
- Variable: 30 cm on 5 to 8 days in 10
- Insufficient: 30 cm less than one day in two
Snow actually measured, winter by winter
21 complete winters measured, from 1999-2000 to 2025-2026 — on average 100 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec29 cmInsufficient · 37 %
- 16-31 Dec43 cmVariable · 52 %
- 1-15 Jan60 cmVariable · 65 %
- 16-31 Jan84 cmGood skiing · 83 %
- 1-15 Feb100 cmGood skiing · 84 %
- 16-29 Feb116 cmGood skiing · 91 %
- 1-15 Mar125 cmGood skiing · 95 %
- 16-31 Mar111 cmGood skiing · 90 %
- 1-15 Apr87 cmVariable · 72 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2008-2009 — 136 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 2000-2001 — 4 days at 30 cm or more
Snowfall: no long enough record of fresh snow at this station. Rather than an estimate, we show nothing.
The ski area
Compare with another resort →37 pistes, by level — 25 km
- Skiable vertical
- 425 m (1,359 m → 1,784 m)
- Lifts
- 12 drag lifts
- Cross-country skiing
- 6 named trails — 38 km of marked loops (17 km of distinct track: the loops overlap), right by the resortOpenStreetMap, lengths measured on the geometry, surveyed on 12 September 2026. A trail with no difficulty tag is shown as "n/a" — never guessed.
See the trails(6)
Trail Level Length Boucle Rouge intermediate 12 km Boucle Bleue easy 9.2 km Boucle Verte very easy 7.4 km Liaison Val de Lans / Allières difficult 6.1 km Petite Verte very easy 2.7 km Mini Verte very easy 0.8 km - Without skis
- 1 sledging run
- Piste aspect
- N 40% · E 0% · S 4% · W 56% (descent direction of 28 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Tourist office
- Office de Tourisme intercommunal Vercors - LANS en VERCORS · 246 Av. Léopold Fabre, 38250 Lans-en-Vercors, 38250 · 0476954262 · [email protected] (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
- Shuttle timetable (PDF)
- Web (declared by the resort, ANMSM)
Resort data: declared by Office de Tourisme intercommunal Vercors - LANS en VERCORS and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September
Pistes and lifts surveyed on OpenStreetMap within 4 km of the resort — for a resort in a linked area, the figure may include neighbouring pistes.
Lift passes detail →
The price list for this resort is being collected: most resorts publish winter prices between September and November.
The ski area in figures
Measured on 9 September 2026Measured 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 Lans en Vercor only (“LANS EN VERCORS”), magic carpets included.
Staying and hiring gear in Lans en Vercor
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (13) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 18 September 2026.
Piste map
Open on OpenSnowMap ↗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 Lans en Vercor
From Paris: 6 hr 24 (595 km) by road.
By road
- From Grenoble: 40 min · 31 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 22 · 89 km
- From Valence: 1 hr 24 · 81 km
- From Lyon: 1 hr 47 · 125 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 51 · 136 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Genève: 2 hr 21 · 174 km
- From Saint-Étienne: 2 hr 21 · 174 km
- From Montpellier: 3 hr 31 · 285 km
- From Marseille: 3 hr 36 · 294 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 39 · 326 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 3 hr 40 · 293 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 58 · 355 km
- From Perpignan: 4 hr 53 · 433 km
- From Nice: 5 hr 14 · 452 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 46 · 537 km
- From Toulouse: 5 hr 49 · 519 km
- From Strasbourg: 6 hr 21 · 593 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 24 · 595 km
- From Bordeaux: 7 hr 38 · 680 km
- From Pau: 7 hr 43 · 709 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Échirolles station
regional station · then 38 min drive (31 km)
Nearest main station: Grenoble, 40 min by road.
- From Grenoble station (stop “Gare Routiere”): line T65 — LANS EN VERCORS-ST NIZIER-GRENOBLE (REGION - cars Région Isère), 53 min to the “Les Bernards” stop — 6 departures a day on weekdays, 5 a day at weekends · first 07:25, last 19:00 · timetable from 15 December 2026 to 15 April 2027 · official timetable ↗
Direct journeys read from the official timetable files published on transport.data.gouv.fr — no connections.
By plane
- Grenoble-Alpes-Isère (GNB): 1 hr 01 by road · 65 km
- Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS): 1 hr 31 by road · 112 km
Take me there
These links open the app with Lans en Vercor as the destination. Your starting point is never sent by us — the app asks you for it, if you agree.
Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
2 charging points · up to 24 kW
- LANS-EN-VERCORS - parking Rue des Ecoles · EASYCHARGE · 2 points · 24 kW · 1.8 km
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.
Off-piste & ski touring
The resorts for off-piste skiing →Named itineraries: Combe Oursière · Coq de Bruyère
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
Resorts for ski touring →12 ski touring routes documented within 10 km of Lans en Vercor — up to 1,000 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Grand Cheval · Par les pistes | 1.3 · E1 · F | 430 m | 1,400 → 1,827 m | W | 0.8 km |
| Grande Roche Saint Michel · Par la piste de Roche Rousse | 1.3 · E1 · PD- | 480 m | 1,383 → 1,863 m | NW | 1.7 km |
| Grande Roche Saint Michel · depuis le Furon | 1.3 · E1 · F | 723 m | 1,140 → 1,863 m | W | 2.1 km |
| Pic Saint Michel · Versant W | 2.1 · E1 · PD- | 700 m | 1,270 → 1,966 m | W | 2.4 km |
| Pic Saint Michel · Versant E par le col de l'Arc | 2.3 · E2 · PD+ | 1,000 m | 960 → 1,966 m | E | 3.5 km |
| Le Moucherotte · Couloir SW | 3.1 · E1 · AD- | 750 m | 1,140 → 1,901 m | W | 3.7 km |
| Pic Saint Michel · Versant W par le Col de L'Arc | n/a · PD+ | 800 m | 1,180 → 1,966 m | SW | 3.9 km |
| Le Moucherotte · Versant W (voie normale) | 1.3 · E1 · F | 750 m | 1,150 → 1,901 m | W | 4.2 km |
| Crête des Crocs · Face W | 4.1 · E2 · AD | 890 m | 1,115 → 2,005 m | W | 4.3 km |
| Le Moucherotte · Depuis le stade de neige de Lans-en-Vercors | 1.2 · E1 · F | 530 m | 1,380 → 1,901 m | SW | 4.4 km |
| Pierre Virari · Par la Combe Noire | 3.2 · E2 · AD | 850 m | 1,115 → 1,965 m | W | 4.5 km |
| Crête des Crocs · Couloir E | 4.1 · E1 · AD- | 200 m | 1,800 → 2,005 m | E | 4.5 km |
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 ↗
Beyond skiing at Lans en Vercor
Ice rink
- Patinoire André Ravix · Villard-de-Lans · 6.6 km away
Swimming pool
- Centre Aquatique · Villard-de-Lans · 6.6 km away
- Piscine Flottibulle_Centre aquatique · Le Pont-de-Claix · 7.7 km away
- Piscine Municipale de Seyssinet-Pariset · Seyssinet-Pariset · 9.3 km away
Spa and thermal baths
- D'Air et d'Eau · Grenoble · 9.6 km away
Paragliding
- Pente école parapente de l'Aigle · Lans-en-Vercors · 1.2 km away
- Alto - Vol libre parapente / Ecole de parapente · Lans-en-Vercors · 2 km away
- Le Belvédère - Parapente · Lans-en-Vercors · 3.4 km away
- Bellecombe, site de parapente · Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · 6.9 km away
Museum
- La Magie des Automates · Lans-en-Vercors · 2.7 km away
- Maison du Patrimoine · Villard-de-Lans · 6.8 km away
- Histo Bus Dauphinois · Le Pont-de-Claix · 7.8 km away
- Musée Champollion · Vif · 8.5 km away
Cinema
- Cinéma Le Clap · Lans-en-Vercors · 1.8 km away
- Cinéma Le Rex · Villard-de-Lans · 6.9 km away
- Cinéma Le Clos · Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors · 8.4 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.
Practical information
Collective accommodation
- 2 hotels · 37 rooms (1 × 3★, 1 × 2★)
- 1 campsite · 87 pitches
Commune: Lans-en-Vercors · INSEE tourist accommodation survey, 2026, read on 12 September 2026. Collective accommodation only — privately let flats and second homes are not counted. INSEE dataset ↗
Tourist office
Montagnes de Lans
Ski school
ESF Lans En Vercors
34 instructors
🇬🇧 18 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Cinema · Cinéma Associatif Le Clap
- Swimming pool · Piscine de l'hôtel du Col de l'Arc
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.
What's on around Lans en Vercor
All events →-
19 September 2026 · 10:00
LA TOURBIÈRE DU PEUIL : ENTRE PIERRES ET EAU
La Tourbière du Peuil, Claix · Claix
Balade contée et vibratoire accompagnée par une conteuse et une géobiologue, au cœur d’un lieu qui sort de l’ordinaire : la tourbière du Peuil.
Source: OpenAgenda, agenda “Isère Attractivité” · View on OpenAgenda ↗
Also near: Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors (10 km)
Events published on OpenAgenda by the agendas named above, kept when they take place within 10 km of the resort. We organise nothing: times, prices and cancellations are the organiser's.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Lans en Vercor?
Lans en Vercor sits at 1,374 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,784 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Lans en Vercor have?
Lans en Vercor has 25 km of pistes served by 12 lifts (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Lans en Vercor?
The longest piste is Chevreuils: 2 km (blue run), for 257 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 Lans en Vercor?
The highest lift, Trois Buissons (platter lift), tops out at 1,801 m. Source: STRMTG, French national register of mechanical lifts (CAIRN database), file dated 1 January 2025.
How many lifts does Lans en Vercor have, and what is their capacity?
The French national register of mechanical lifts records 15 installations at Lans en Vercor (13 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets), for an authorised capacity of 10,091 people per hour, of which 900 for Bachassons alone. The fleet spans 1971 to 2005, an average age of 43 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 Lans en Vercor?
By road, Lans en Vercor is 40 min from Grenoble (31 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Échirolles, 38 min by road from the resort. From Grenoble station, line T65 — LANS EN VERCORS-ST NIZIER-GRENOBLE (REGION - cars Région Isère) reaches the “Les Bernards” stop in 53 min, 6 departures a day on weekdays, 5 a day at weekends. The nearest airport is Grenoble-Alpes-Isère, 1 hr 01 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Lans en Vercor?
6 hr 24 for 595 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 Lans en Vercor?
Natural snow is low on average according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.
Is Lans en Vercor good for beginners and families?
78% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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