Alpe d'Huez is an Alpine ski resort in France. Alpe d'Huez spans from 1860 m to 3330 m above sea level. The published figures cover 250 km of piste and 84 lifts.
Early December to mid/late April, e.g. the 2025/26 season runs 6 December 2025 to 19 April 2026, and 2026/27 is listed as 5 December 2026 to 25 April 2027 — consistent with the resort's typical historical window. Nearest airport is Grenoble-Isère (GNB) / Grenoble, ~60 km, roughly 1h by road; Lyon-Saint-Exupéry (LYS) is a more common international-flight option at a longer transfer time. No direct train to the resort; nearest mainline station is Grenoble, then road transfer.
Gondolas and chairlifts are listed above under Notable lifts. These are specifically two-station reversible aerial tramways — a distinct lift type.
Verified locations only: the resort area and its named cable car stations. We don't have precise coordinates for individual accommodation listings, so those aren't plotted here — use the booking link in the sidebar instead.
Ski school (ESF Alpe d'Huez)
Snowpark near the Bergers piste, with beginner/intermediate/expert zones
Night skiing on the lit Signal piste (TPS Eutelsat)
4 sledding/toboggan runs, one lit for night use
Outdoor ice rink
La Sarenne — reputed to be Europe's longest black run (~16 km)
Every note below is drawn from the resort's own or an independent official publication.
Village/resort altitude: the resort centre sits at 1860 m (confirmed by multiple independent guides and consistent with the official site's own references); one older/secondary source cited 1450 m, which appears to refer to a lower hamlet/access point rather than the main resort, and 1120 m appears elsewhere as the lowest point the ski domain descends to (toward Vaujany/Villard-Reculas/Bourg d'Oisans side), not the resort base itself. Used 1860 m as the resort/village base.
Summit: Pic Blanc at 3330 m is consistently cited across the official site, Wikipedia, and independent guides.
Piste length: the official site and skipass.alpedhuez.com describe 'more than 250 km' without an exact figure; independent sources cluster tightly at 249-251 km (Wikipedia: 249 km; other independent guides: 250-251 km). Used 250 km as the representative, well cross-checked figure, but note the resort's own marketing rounds to 'more than 250 km' rather than giving an exact number.
Lift count of 84 is consistently cited across Wikipedia and independent aggregators; one aggregator (bergfex.com) showed an anomalous '10 lifts', which appears to be a stale/scraping error (it also gave anomalously low figures for other resorts in this research and was disregarded).
No officially published breakdown of piste km by difficulty was found (only a count of runs by difficulty in some places, not km), so left null.
Nearest town: Bourg-d'Oisans is the valley town below Alpe d'Huez, but Alpe d'Huez itself is the resort/commune for skiing purposes, so left null rather than implying visitors are based elsewhere.
Pic Blanc cable car capacity is disputed across sources: remontees-mecaniques.net documents the original 1980 Creissels téléphérique as 93 passengers, while an aggregator (skiresort.com) lists a '70-person aerial tramway (2025)' reflecting the resort's 2024–2025 lift modernization program. Could not confirm the current post-renovation figure on alpedhuez.com itself, so capacity_note is left null rather than guessing which figure is current.
The 23-passenger figure for the renovated Pic Blanc gondola (replacing the old DMC des Grandes Rousses) is corroborated by two independent write-ups (mon-sejour-en-montagne.com and skiresort.com), so kept with higher confidence.
No public general-inquiry email address could be found on the official site (alpedhuez.com/en/contact/ and its contact-info sub-page); the office appears to only offer a web contact form and a DPO-specific address (dpo@alpedhuez.com, not a general contact). Left contact.email as null rather than using the DPO address or an unverified 'info@alpedhuez.com' seen only in a third-party search snippet.
Amenities list is conservative — omitted third-party-only claims (e.g. indoor pool, luge/tobogganing details beyond count) not clearly confirmed on an official/tourism-board page during this pass.
Equipment shops: Intersport and the Twinner-branded 'Concept' shop are directly identifiable as real branches in Alpe d'Huez; Skiset is included as the resort's largest partner network (multiple named partner shops such as Henri Sports, AB Sports found in search) but linked to the general skiset.com site rather than a specific unverified branch page.
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