Las Leñas Resort Guide

The Las Leñas resort summary is: Las Leñas has 13 lifts within its terrain that is suitable for intermediate and advanced levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 1190m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 27 trail at Las Leñas.


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Las Leñas Resort Guide

The Las Leñas resort summary is: Las Leñas has 13 lifts within its terrain that is suitable for intermediate and advanced levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 1190m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 27 trail at Las Leñas.

Vertical:

Top: 3430m
Arrow
1190m
Bot: 2240m

Best for:

Advanced level skier
Intermediates/
Advanced

Trails:

27
15%
29%
56%

Hectares of Ski:

Snowmaking: Yes

Las Leñas Lifts:

  • drag lift icon6
  • ski lift icon7
  • cablecar icon
Total lifts = 13

Visiting Las Leñas

Helpful resort information to assist planning your trip to Las Leñas.

  • Season opens
    16 Jun 2023
  • Season closes
    1 Oct 2023
  • Accommodation
  • Restaurants | Bars
    6 | 6
  • Nearest Airport
    Malargüe
  • Nearest Train Station
  • Tourist Office Website
  • Tourist Office Phone
    +54 911 4819-6060

Las Leñas Features

The terrain at Las Leñas includes::

  • Halfpipes
    0
  • Terrain Parks
    1
  • X-Country
    Yes
  • Ski Hire

What's it like at Las Leñas resort?

Las Leñas Ski Resort is considered by many to be one of the best ski resorts in South America. It has 17.500 hectares of skiable and one of the longest slopes in the world of nonstop skiing 4,3 miles. Legendary for backcountry skiing, Las Leñas is also the perfect resort for beginners and intermediate skiers and snowboarders, with the best quality of snow in the earth of The Andes. Visitors can chose from one of our 5, 4 or 3 stars hotel, apart hotels, apartments and dorm houses, with premium international service. Valle de Las Leñas is situated on the North–South point of the Cordillera de Los Andes middle zone, inside the department of Malargüe, in Mendozas province. You can get there by plane from Buenos Aires; there is a direct flight departing from Jorge Newbery Airport and arriving to Malargue Airport. The flight takes approximately 1 and a half-hour. There is a one-hour-bus journey from the airport to Las Leñas Valley. You can also take a scheduled flight to San Rafael, and travel overland to Las Leñas. From the United States and the rest of America and Europe, you can take scheduled flights to Buenos Aires, and take possible connections to Malargue or San Rafael. From Brazil, during high season there are direct flights from Sao Paulo to Malargue. Las Leñas is the nearest ski resort from Buenos Aires, and probably the only one that is worth it to go by car during a long weekend (although cars are not necessary during your stay in Las Leñas). The journey takes approximately 11 hours. Due to the distance that separates Las Leñas from most of the big cities of Argentina, you can take a bus (sleeping car preferably) after a working day, and sleep (as much as possible) during the night and wake up the next morning at your arrival to the Valley, without wasting work or holiday time.


Explore Las Leñas Location Map

Interactive Las Leñas trail map and piste map. View the piste and trails as well as the surrounding terrain and mountain contours for backcountry action. Find and compare nearby resorts by clicking on the resort markers.

Las Leñas Live Weather

ResortSnow DepthTemp. (°C)Wind (km/h)Weather
Top Lift: 0.0m
6
15
clear
Middle Lift: 
9
10
clear
Bottom Lift: 0.0m
12
10
clear

When's the snowiest month to visit Las Leñas?

AugustAverage: 2.9 snow days per week
The snowiest week in Las Leñas is week 3 of August. There are typically 2.9 snowy days during this week with 47cm of snowfall. Check out the Las Leñas Snow History graphs below.


Visitor Reviews of Las Leñas

Overall: 3.4 Based on 111 votes and 211 reviews

  • Snowsure 3.6
  • Variety of pistes 3.9
  • Off-piste 4.5
  • Scenery 3.9
  • Apres-Ski 3.6
  • Vote

Fer from Argentina writes:

Realmente es un centro de ski que fue exquisito hace mucho tiempo. Hoy en dia diferentes situaciones como la desinversion en tecnologia y la menor duracion de las temporadas debido a situaciones climatologicas hicieron que este centro caiga en un gran deterioro. Los hoteles se encuentran igual que hace 15 anos y ni que hablar de los medio que en algunos casos son los mismos que abrieron en 1974 como marte, neptuno, venus y vulcano. Sillas lentas e inestables que ante la minima ventizca son cerradas. No pierdas ni tu tiempo ni tu dinero en proyectar tus vacaciones en este centro, que si bien fue espectaculkar hace 20 anos hoy es tristemente un recuerdo

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