Les Menuires

4.5Ski map

The most underrated village in the 3 Vallees: great skiing, real prices.

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Les Menuires and its slopes1850 m
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Forecast at 1850 m today: low / high, modelled snow depth, and new snow in the last 24 hours.

Terrain4.5
Snow4.5
Lifts4.5
Village5.0
Mountain food4.5
Après4.0
Families5.0
Value5.0
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Is Les Menuires worth it?

Yes, and it is our pick for the most underrated village. It is about as well connected as Meribel, much cheaper, and has a great skiing area of its own: a smaller valley with lots of runs to explore.

It feels like a real town rather than just a ski station, with plenty of private houses and apartments to rent. Good for families, especially young ones. The one cost is position: it sits slightly to the side, so reaching the middle of the area takes extra time.

Day routes

Ski from Les Menuires

2 day routes from here. Highlighted steps are specific to Les Menuires. Tap a profile to see it on the map.

Lift upSki down, in the grade colourFaded: your village's own legs

Val Thorens and back

Full dayRed runsLeave by 15:00 from Val Thorens
  • Up to Val Thorens directly
  • Plattieres gondola
  • Cote Brune
  • Col de la Chambre
  • Val Thorens
  • Same way back
  • Ski back from Val Thorens

The big crossing to the highest village in the area, with lunch in Val Thorens. It is the route that most often goes wrong, because the link is exposed and shuts in bad weather.

Check the afternoon forecast before you go. If the Mottaret link closes, the lower way back through Les Menuires often stays open. Queues are worst just after lunch.

Orelle and the highest point

Full dayRed runsLeave by 13:30 from Orelle
  • Up to Val Thorens, then over to Orelle
  • Val Thorens
  • Over the ridge to Orelle
  • Bouchet chair 3230 m
  • Reds to Plan Bouchet
  • Rosael chair back
  • Rosael back, then down to Les Menuires

Over the back of Val Thorens into what is really a fourth valley. Mostly long reds, not very steep but often icy and cold, and the highest lift-served point of the 3 Vallees at 3230 m.

Pick your weather. On a grey day it is cold and flat-lit; on a sunny one it is the best day trip in the area.

All 3 Vallees day routes

Map

Piste map of Les Menuires: pistes, lifts and villages on the 3D terrainHD

Pick a view or a day route to change the picture. Press Explore in 3D to move around: drag to look around, scroll or pinch to zoom, hover a piste or lift for its name, and use Free 3D to unlock the camera.

Named pistes
386
Lifts
155
Pistes on the map
547 km
Highest lift
3,190 m

51 green162 blue121 red44 black8 ski route

In the Belleville valley: 163 named pistes and 52 lifts.

Longest named runs: Mont de la Guerre (red, 5.9 km), Violette (green, 4.5 km), Creux (blue, 4.4 km). Highest lift: Bouchet, to 3,190 m.

Open the full 3 Vallées piste map Every piste and lift by name, grade, length and altitude.

Getting there

Fly to Geneva, Lyon or Chambery and drive up the Tarentaise to Moutiers, then up the valley. Trains reach Moutiers, but most people use a car or a transfer.

Open the full-page 3D piste map of 3 Vallees

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