Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts is a ski resort in the Northern Alps (Haute-Savoie), in the commune of Morillon. The village sits at 1,074 m and the ski area rises to 1,708 m.
The area offers 162 km of alpine pistes, 117 marked pistes (46 green, 47 blue, 17 red, 7 black), 27 ski lifts, plus a snowpark. Green and blue runs dominate: terrain suited to beginners and families.
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts belongs to the linked Grand Massif area: one lift pass covers the neighbouring resorts.
Measured on the OpenStreetMap map: the longest piste runs 11 km (Cascades) and the highest lift tops out at 2,484 m.
Access: 56 min by road from Genève and 24 min from Cluses railway station.
2 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: 1,708 m · Bottom of the pistes: 1,708 m · Days above 30 cm per winter, measured: 50 days · Days above 30 cm, December to March, model: 88%
- Ski areaIs there enough to ski all week?4 / 5
Km of pistes at the resort: 162 km · Km of pistes across the linked area: 282 km · Lifts: 27 · Balance between piste levels: 85%
- ValueIs the lift pass reasonable for what you get?2.5 / 5
Adult day pass: €63 · Day pass price per km of pistes: €0.39/km · Adult 6-day pass: €378
- Families and beginnersIs it right for children and beginners?3.5 / 5
Share of green and blue pistes: 79% · Magic carpets: 6 · Sledging runs: 1 · Special prices out of 4 (beginner, child, family, free age): 3 · ESF ski school · Ice rink, pool, rail sledge…: 1
- AccessIs it easy to get to?3 / 5
Average drive time from 20 major cities: 4 hr 35 · Nearest railway station: 24 min · Station-to-resort shuttles per day: 0 · Nearest airport: 1 hr 20
- Atmosphere and après-skiIs there life in the evening and off the slopes?3 / 5
Bars and pubs: 4 · Nightclubs: 0 · Restaurants: 15 · Upcoming events: 0 · Collective tourist beds: 1,155 — index: what the map and the listings publish
- Luxury and comfortHow upmarket is the resort?1.5 / 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 · Adult day pass: €63 — 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.
Right now at the FLAINE_SAPC station (1,611 m)
Avalanche danger
7-day forecast
Village 1,074 m · top 1,708 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
Good snow from January to March.
☀️ Average daily sunshine : Nov 6.2 h · Dec 5.6 h · Jan 5.8 h · Feb 7.2 h · Mar 8.6 h · Apr 10.3 h — 26 bright days in April (Open-Meteo estimate, 2015-2025).
- November—no record
- December54 cmVariable · 77%
- January77 cmGood skiing · 87%
- February94 cmGood skiing · 98%
- March101 cmGood skiing · 91%
- April61 cmVariable · 64%
- 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
12 complete winters measured, from 2002-2003 to 2015-2016 — on average 50 days a winter with at least 30 cm on the ground.
- 1-15 Dec15 cmInsufficient · 19 %
- 16-31 Dec18 cmInsufficient · 25 %
- 1-15 Jan19 cmInsufficient · 23 %
- 16-31 Jan33 cmVariable · 55 %
- 1-15 Feb46 cmVariable · 69 %
- 16-29 Feb44 cmVariable · 61 %
- 1-15 Mar38 cmVariable · 52 %
- 16-31 Mar20 cmInsufficient · 25 %
- 1-15 Apr5 cmInsufficient · 8 %
- Best winter of the series
- 2008-2009 — 120 days at 30 cm or more
- Worst winter of the series
- 2006-2007 — 0 day at 30 cm or more
How much snow actually falls — 325 cm a winter on average, spread over 42 days of snowfall. Measured over 14 complete winters.
- Biggest 24-hour snowfall
- 36 cm — 2002-2003
- Snowiest winter
- 2012-2013 — 521 cm
- Leanest winter
- 2010-2011 — 144 cm
The ski area
Compare with another resort →117 pistes, by level — 162 km
- Lifts
- 3 gondolas, 10 chairlifts, 8 drag lifts, 6 magic carpets
- Cross-country skiing
- 2 named trails — 22 km of marked loops (15 km of distinct track: the loops overlap) · Domaine Nordique d'Agy - Saint-Sigismond area, 1.6 km from 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(2)
- Snowpark
- 1 mapped zone, 1.1 km from the resort — Ze Kid'z Park (easy)
OpenStreetMap, surveyed on 12 September 2026. OpenStreetMap does not map individual features (kickers, rails): what is counted here are the named zones. - Without skis
- 1 sledging run
- Piste aspect
- N 63% · E 9% · S 8% · W 20% (descent direction of 81 OSM pistes, terrain model)
- Mountain restaurants
- Le 45,8 (1621 m) · Demoiselles des Saix (1621 m)
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 (2026-2027) detail →
| Adult pass | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 day | €63 |
| 6 days | €378 |
| Season | €1,316 |
| Child, 1 day | €50.40 |
| Beginner, 1 day | €24.80 |
| Pedestrian, 1 day | €11 |
| Free | Free under 8 · free from 75 years |
Read on the official price list, full price, excluding promotions. Official price list ↗
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.
Staying and hiring gear in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
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Stay & accommodation
Live webcams
All webcams (8) →Official players of the resort, live image. Checked on 12 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
From Paris: 6 hr 22 (593 km) by road.
By road
- From Genève: 56 min · 58 km
- From Annecy: 1 hr 08 · 82 km
- From Chambéry: 1 hr 36 · 124 km
- From Grenoble: 2 hr 10 · 180 km
- From Lyon: 2 hr 30 · 201 km
From other major cities (15)
- From Saint-Étienne: 3 hr 08 · 260 km
- From Valence: 3 hr 08 · 282 km
- From Besançon: 3 hr 24 · 232 km
- From Dijon: 3 hr 31 · 314 km
- From Clermont-Ferrand: 4 hr 13 · 372 km
- From Montpellier: 5 hr 15 · 486 km
- From Strasbourg: 5 hr 19 · 450 km
- From Marseille: 5 hr 20 · 496 km
- From Nancy: 5 hr 33 · 518 km
- From Nice: 6 hr 13 · 514 km
- From Paris: 6 hr 22 · 593 km
- From Perpignan: 6 hr 36 · 634 km
- From Toulouse: 7 hr 32 · 720 km
- From Bordeaux: 8 hr 11 · 759 km
- From Pau: 9 hr 27 · 910 km
Excluding traffic and winter conditions; passes closed in winter are avoided.
By train
Cluses station
regional station · then 24 min drive (20 km)
Nearest main station: Annecy, 1 hr 06 by road.
No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables (checked on 13 September 2026): ask the resort about a private shuttle or a taxi.
Shuttles and buses from the station: see the resort’s official website.
By plane
- Genève (GVA): 1 hr 20 by road · 67 km
- Chambéry-Savoie (CMF): 1 hr 39 by road · 123 km
Take me there
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Charging an electric car
1 charging station within 2 km
4 charging points · up to 22 kW
- MORILLON - Parking des Esserts · EASYCHARGE · 4 points · 22 kW · 0.2 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: ancien Piste rouge Velarge · Coccinelle · Aigle noir · Aiglon
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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts — up to 1,030 m of climb.
| Summit and route | Ski grade | Climb | Altitude | Aspect | From resort |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe des Biollaires · De Morillon | 1.3 · F | 1,011 m | 700 → 1,711 m | n/a | 1.3 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Depuis Morillon par les pistes | 2.1 · E1 · F | 1,030 m | 1,091 → 2,118 m | E | 2.1 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Pointe de la Corne en circuit. | n/a · PD- | 710 m | 1,615 → 2,118 m | N | 3.3 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · depuis les Carroz, par les pistes | n/a · F | 980 m | 1,160 → 2,118 m | NW | 4 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Versant N | n/a · PD- | 503 m | 1,615 → 2,118 m | N | 4.2 km |
| Tête du Pré des Saix · Versant S | 1.2 · E1 · F | 370 m | 1,750 → 2,118 m | S | 4.7 km |
| Tête de Véret · Depuis Les Molliets | 2.2 · E1 · F | 920 m | 1,460 → 2,309 m | W | 5.8 km |
| Pointe de Véret · Couloir "aux Poubelles" | 5.1 · E2 · D | 340 m | 1,780 → 2,122 m | NW | 5.8 km |
| Tête de Véret · Couloir NE depuis Vernant | 3.2 · E1 · AD- | 950 m | 1,747 → 2,309 m | NE | 6.1 km |
| Les Grands Vans · Versant NW | 1.2 · E1 · F | 750 m | 1,460 → 2,208 m | NW | 6.4 km |
| Pointe de Véret · depuis Flaine | n/a · PD- | 450 m | 1,678 → 2,122 m | SE | 6.4 km |
| Tête de Véret · Depuis Vernant | 2.2 · E1 · PD | 750 m | 1,747 → 2,309 m | n/a | 6.6 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts
Ice rink
- Jardin de glace à la Patinoire de Samoëns · Samoëns · 4.3 km away
Swimming pool
- Piscine de Samoëns · Samoëns · 3.7 km away
- Espace piscine -Aquacîme · Arâches-la-Frasse · 5 km away
Paragliding
- Profeel parapente · Morillon · 2.1 km away
- Aire d'atterrissage de parapente · Samoëns · 3.7 km away
- Décollage parapente de la Kédeuze · Arâches-la-Frasse · 4.2 km away
- Atterrissage parapente Arâches · Arâches-la-Frasse · 4.2 km away
Museum
- Ferme Ecomusée du Clos Parchet · Samoëns · 4.6 km away
- Musée de l'Horlogerie et du Décolletage · Cluses · 7.1 km away
- Maison du Patrimoine · Taninges · 7.7 km away
- Espace Jacquem'Arts · Taninges · 7.7 km away
Cinema
- Ciné Cluses · Cluses · 6.8 km away
- Cinétoiles - Cinéma Art & Essais · Cluses · 7 km away
- Cinéma Cinébus · Taninges · 7.6 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
1,155 bed spaces in tourist residences, holiday villages and hostels
- 1 hotel · 22 rooms (1 × 3★)
- 1 holiday village or family centre · 368 bed spaces
- 4 tourist residences and apartment hotels · 787 bed spaces
Commune: Morillon · 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
Office de tourisme de Morillon
Ski school
ESF Morillon - Grand Massif
65 instructors
🇬🇧 46 English-speaking instructors — lessons in English available
🗓️ This school sells its lessons online — book ↗
Source: esf.net
Days without skiing
- Swimming pool · Le Splash
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.
Nearby resorts
Frequently asked questions
How high is Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts sits at 1,074 m at village level, and its ski area rises to 1,708 m.
How many kilometres of pistes does Morillon 1100 Les Esserts have?
Morillon 1100 Les Esserts has 162 km of pistes served by 27 lifts, within the linked Grand Massif area (OpenStreetMap survey).
What is the longest piste in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The longest piste is Cascades: 11 km (red run), for 1,594 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The highest lift, Lindars Nord, tops out at 2,484 m (IGN RGE ALTI terrain model). The 56 lifts mapped on OpenStreetMap total 59 km.
How much is a lift pass in Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
The adult day pass costs €63 and the 6-day pass €378 (2026-2027, read on the official price list).
How do I get to Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
By road, Morillon 1100 Les Esserts is 56 min from Genève (58 km), excluding traffic and winter conditions. By train, the nearest station is Cluses, 24 min by road from the resort. No direct bus line from the station to the resort appears in the open-data timetables. The nearest airport is Genève, 1 hr 20 away.
How long is the drive from Paris to Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
6 hr 22 for 593 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 Morillon 1100 Les Esserts?
Yes: good snow through most of the winter according to twenty winters of Météo-France measurements; in season the daily report prevails.
Is Morillon 1100 Les Esserts good for beginners and families?
79% of the pistes are green or blue: a very accessible area.
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