French Alps


The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as the Mont Blanc massif, are shared with Switzerland and Italy.
At, Mont Blanc, on the France–Italy border, is the highest mountain in the Alps, and the highest Western European mountain.
Notable towns in the French Alps include Grenoble, Chamonix, Annecy, Chambéry, Évian-les-Bains and Albertville.

Ranges and summits

Ski areas

The largest connected ski areas are:
  1. Les Trois Vallées : 338 slopes, 600 km of pistes.
  2. Portes du Soleil : 288 slopes, 650 km of slopes not entirely connected.
  3. Paradiski, Champagny-en-Vanoise: 239 slopes, 420 km of slopes.
  4. Via Lattea : 214 slopes, 400 km of slopes.
  5. Évasion Mont-Blanc : 183 slopes, 420 km of slopes not entirely connected.
  6. Espace Killy : 137 slopes, 300 km of slopes.
  7. Grand Massif : 134 slopes, 265 km of slopes.
  8. Les Aravis : 133 slopes, 220 km of slopes not entirely connected.
  9. Les Grandes Rousses : 117 slopes, 236 km of slopes.
  10. Serre Chevalier: 111 slopes, 250 km of slopes.
  11. La Forêt Blanche : 104 slopes, 180 km of slopes.
  12. Les Sybelles : 96 slopes, 310 km of slopes.
  13. Valloire and Valmeinier: 83 slopes, 150 km of slopes.
  14. Grand Domaine : 82 slopes, 150 km of slopes
  15. Espace San Bernardo : 73 slopes, 150 km of slopes.
  16. Les Deux Alpes and La Grave: 69 slopes, 220 km of slopes.
The other large ski areas are:
  • Le Val d'Arly : 150 km of slopes.
  • L'Espace Cristal : 80 km of slopes
  • L'Espace Diamant is a combination of Espace Val d'Arly and Espace Cristal with 185 km of slopes
  • Villard-de-Lans et Corrençon-en-Vercors: 125 km of slopes
  • Valberg - Beuil les Launes: 90 km of slopes
  • Espace Lumière : 170 km of slopes
  • Superdévoluy - La Joue du Loup: 100 km of slopes
  • Orcières-Merlette 150 km of slopes

    Activities

A range of winter and summer activities are available in the French Alps. In the winter, these include skiing and snowboarding as well as alternatives such as snowshoeing, sledging. There is a range of other activities that happen such as gliding which most happens during the summer months. Summer activities include hiking, mountaineering, biking and rock climbing.