Les Deux Alpes Resort Guide

The Les Deux Alpes resort summary is: Les Deux Alpes has 69 lifts within its 774 Hectares of terrain that is suitable for all levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 1949m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 70 trail at Les Deux Alpes.


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Les Deux Alpes Resort Guide

The Les Deux Alpes resort summary is: Les Deux Alpes has 69 lifts within its 774 Hectares of terrain that is suitable for all levels, including terrain park enthusiasts. Find location, trail maps and piste maps covering the mountains 1949m of vertical range and surrounding area. There are 70 trail at Les Deux Alpes.

Vertical:

Top: 3600m
Arrow
1949m
Bot: 1651m

Best for:

Beginners level skier
Beginners/
Intermediates

Trails:

70
36%
44%
20%

Hectares of Ski:

774
Snowmaking: 20%

Les Deux Alpes Lifts:

  • drag lift icon37
  • ski lift icon23
  • cablecar icon9
Total lifts = 69
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Visiting Les Deux Alpes

Helpful resort information to assist planning your trip to Les Deux Alpes.

  • Season opens
    3 Dec 2022
  • Season closes
    23 Apr 2023
  • Accommodation
  • Restaurants | Bars
    42 | 30
  • Nearest Airport
    Grenoble
  • Nearest Train Station
    Grenoble
  • Tourist Office Website
  • Tourist Office Phone

Les Deux Alpes Features

The terrain at Les Deux Alpes includes::


What's it like at Les Deux Alpes resort?

Like the name says, Les Deux Alpes resort is made up of two Alps, two alpine pastures put together over 50 years ago to form a ski resort. It shows how prescient the burghers of Mont-de-Lans and Venosc were; today 35,000 tourists at a time flock to the mile-high resort. They come to enjoy the extensive, mostly treeless ski terrain, efficient lifts and lots of sun on south-facing slopes. They ski on 220 km of groomed slopes at Les Deux Alpes, 20 percent of them black, and 44 percent intermediate and 36 percent easy. Les Deux Alpes has a top skiable elevation of 3600 meters and a vertical drop of 2300 metres are impressive statistics rarely found in a ski area. Snowboarders have a real chance to strut their stuff. In addition to wide-open spaces, shredders have a boarder-cross, fun park, and half pipe. Stout-hearted skiers have a mile-long couloir to jump into. The Mont-de-Lans glacier at Les Deux Alpes, near the top of the main mountain, is claimed by the tourist office to be the largest skiable glacier in Europe.


Explore Les Deux Alpes Location Map

Interactive Les Deux Alpes 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.

Les Deux Alpes Live Weather

ResortSnow DepthTemp. (°C)Wind (km/h)Weather
Top Lift: 1.6m
-14
15
light snow
Middle Lift: 
-7
15
light snow
Bottom Lift: 0.2m
-3
10
light snow

When's the snowiest month to visit Les Deux Alpes?

MarchAverage: 3.8 snow days per week
The snowiest week in Les Deux Alpes is week 1 of March. There are typically 3.8 snowy days during this week with 59cm of snowfall. Check out the Les Deux Alpes Snow History graphs below.


Visitor Reviews of Les Deux Alpes

Overall: 4.1 Based on 63 votes and 58 reviews

  • Snowsure 4.6
  • Variety of pistes 4.2
  • Off-piste 4.2
  • Scenery 4.0
  • Apres-Ski 4.6
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Baz from United Kingdom writes:

I did about a month in Les 2 Alpes region earlier this season. From what I've read of the reviews they seem mostly fair. I would say that the resort is great for the experienced skier or boarder. Particularly if you like park skiing as I do. Their large line is really nicely shaped. I can say one other comment here was correct about stones in the line, but it has not been a significant snowfall season again in much of the French Alps, so I figure this is why. Probably not representative of typical season. And once I fished most of them out, no problem. I would say they tend to close the main line too early in the day though, as every day it was closed by 1500, which in many cases is the best part of the day as the landings may start to soften a bit by then. The main issue for most people in Les 2 Alpes is likely to be the runs back to town. I saw many people returning using the chairlifts which says it all really. The runs for the non expert back to town are all narrow road/tracks cut into the side of the mountain, which is rather steep. So most beginners or less experienced skiers will not enjoy this as it can be very crowded. For off-piste, if you get the snow, there is a lot to like here, plenty good terrain around. I would say that if you're a boarder you may get a bit frustrated by the large number of traversing roads that are pretty flat which move you round between the sectors, as everything is along on valley essentially.
For the ladies, I'm not really sure what you are going to do for toilets on mountain, I only saw one or two about, and loads of pee spots at the side of runs, way more of this than I've seen anywhere else.... And the public facilities I ventured into are like you may expect to find in a prison cell. Not up the standards of on mountain facilities you would expect these days, and definitely not enough of them. Similarly I would say on-mountain food options are pretty limited in number and you could, if so inclined, waste an hour waiting to get served.
The town itself is rather nice and they seem to be updating many of the older buildings currently and it is a fair bit prettier than say Les Menuires or Tignes Val Claret, for example. Food wise, there are loads of pubs and restaurants for all budget, plenty cheap eats too, and the takeaway pizzas can be great (Le Chalet a Pizza is excellent and reasonable prices too).
The only problem I would say you may have regarding the town is accommodation. It's not likely to be ski-in ski-out as most of the places are not right on piste. If you are a skier you may want some Siddas snow-trax for your boots to avoid them getting the contact plates for the bindings on the soles ruined by walking around on tarmac and concrete.

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