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The Les Houches ski area

Les Houches has 29 km of pistes, 19 lifts carrying 22,556 people an hour. 5 green runs, 11 blue, 15 red and 5 black.

Les Houches is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie). The village sits at 1,004 m and the ski area rises to 1,401 m.

← Les Houches resort page Version française

Runs by level

36 runs over 29 km:

5 green 11 blue 15 red 5 black
Slope aspect
56 % east · 30 % west · 14 % north — computed from the fall line of 43 runs

As declared by the resort(ANMSM feed)

Ski area
LES HOUCHES
Linked area
Mont-Blanc unlimited · 54 km
Lifts
2 in total · 1 gondolas · 8 chairlifts · 4 drag lifts · 1 conveyors
Altitude
1,000 m → 1,900 m
Beginners
Beginner zone
Fun & sledging
fun zone
Nordic
Domaine Nordique des Houches · 5 km
Passes (as declared)
Adulte 1 jour (forfait station) 59 € · Enfant 1 jour (forfait station) 50.2 € · Sénior 1 jour (forfait station) 50.2 € · Famille 1 jour (forfait station) 183 € (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
2 kmLongest piste — Les Aillouds Supérieur Col de Voza (blue), 282 m of vertical
349 mBiggest vertical without changing piste — 1,643 → 1,294 m, 2 km
1,892 mHighest lift top — TS du Crozat (chairlift), national lift register
22,556Total lift capacity, people per hour — 19 installations: 1 aerial tramway, 1 gondola, 8 chairlifts, 7 drag lifts, 2 magic carpets
29 yrsAverage age of the lift fleet — oldest 1936, newest 2022
2,100Biggest lift, people per hour — TS du Crozat (chairlift, 1994)
10 kmTotal length of lifts — 13 lifts mapped
753 haSki area boundary (OSM)
3,515Inhabitants — Les Houches (INSEE 74143)

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 Les Houches only (“HOUCHES (LES)”), magic carpets included.

The lifts

Register of 1 January 2025

19 lifts , carrying 22,556 people an hour in total , 29 years old on average (from 1936 to 2022).

Type (as registered, in French)CountCapacity (people/h)
Téléphériques1500
Télécabines11,800
Télésièges812,637
Téléskis75,619
Tapis roulants22,000

Lift by lift

The 19 lifts whose capacity the register publishes, largest first.

LiftTypeCapacityLengthVerticalYearManufacturer
TS du Crozat Télésiège 2,100 1399 m 389 m 1994 SKIRAIL
TSD des Mélèzes Télésiège débrayable 2,000 1214 m 236 m 2015 POMAGALSKI
Tapis roulant Ecole Tapis roulant 2,000 64 m 6 m 2009 COMPAC
TS du Kandahar Télésiège 1,880 973 m 314 m 1994 G.M.M.
TC Les Houches / Prarion Télécabine 1,800 2532 m 833 m 2006 POMAGALSKI
TS de Maison Neuve Télésiège 1,700 1208 m 350 m 1986 POMAGALSKI
TS Ecole Télésiège 1,500 326 m 40 m 2009 POMAGALSKI
TS Voza Prarion Télésiège 1,500 995 m 262 m 2007 POMAGALSKI
TK du Col de Voza Télécorde 1,200 133 m 15 m 2007 POMAGALSKI
TS Schuss des Dames Télésiège 1,010 497 m 152 m 2007 POMAGALSKI
TS Coupe du monde Télésiège 947 895 m 215 m 2002 POMAGALSKI
TK des Grands Bois Téléski à perche débrayable 900 556 m 168 m 1993 MONTAZ MAUTINO
TK du Tourchet Téléski à perche débrayable 900 411 m 60 m 1984 POMAGALSKI
TK des Plancerts Téléski à perche débrayable 785 1361 m 370 m 1975 MONTAZ MAUTINO
TK du Mont-Blanc Téléski à perche débrayable 784 350 m 31 m 1993 MONTAZ MAUTINO
TK Ecole du Tourchet Téléski à perche fixe 600 152 m 22 m 1984 POMAGALSKI
TPH de Bellevue Téléphérique 500 2054 m 797 m 1936 BLEICHERT
TK des Bedeys Téléski à corde 450 45 m 3 m 2008 SCHIPPERS
Tapis roulant Les Croets Tapis roulant — 65 m 3 m 2022 SUNKID

French national lift register (STRMTG / CAIRN database) — listed as “HOUCHES (LES)” · 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 des Houches and distributed by ANMSM · read on 18 September