Pistes and lifts
What you can ski here
AlpineSnowboardFreerideSnowparkSki touring
Run counts and piste kilometres are indicative. Green runs only exist in France, Spain, Andorra, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, the United States, Morocco, Algeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Egypt, Canada, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Chile; Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Germany start at blue. Indicative average snow depth near the top of the resort, in cm.
Get to know the resort
Champagny is laid out the old way, a tight cluster of stone-and-wood chalets around a 17th-century baroque church, with the Champagny-en-Vanoise gondola lifting out of the village to plug straight into the Paradiski lift network and the Bellecôte glacier at 3,250 m. Skiing it gives you the full 425 km Paradiski domain on a single pass, both the La Plagne side and, via the Vanoise Express cable car, the whole Les Arcs sector. The personality is village first, ski resort second. The lower hamlet of Champagny-le-Haut sits inside the Vanoise National Park boundary and turns into one of France's best ice-climbing arenas every January, when the cascades freeze solid. Most skiers staying here are families, regulars, or people who tried the purpose-built hubs once and decided they wanted dinner in a place with a baker. The trade-off is honest: less in-and-out skiing convenience at altitude, far more atmosphere at the end of the day.
Good to know
- The terrain is well balanced: 22 green, 40 blue, 45 red and 23 black runs, which suits a mixed group skiing together at different levels.
- The base sits at 1250 m and the top reaches 3250 m, a profile that holds snow well across a normal winter (score 82/100).
- It is one of the bigger domains here, 425 km of piste on 130 lifts, enough to ski a different sector every day of a week.
- The lifts typically turn for about 18 weeks a season, planning around late January to late February tends to land the most reliable cover.
