Tignes - Val d'Isère
The Espace Killy — high, vast, and built for people who never want to stop skiing.
Difficulty mix
On the mountain
- Night skiing — 1 floodlit runs
- 14 snowparks / fun zones
- 3 mogul runs
- 2 km cross-country trails
Bonvo Score breakdown
Computed from mapped terrain data — no editorial opinion, no pay-to-rank. How the score works
Skiing Tignes - Val d'Isère, told properly
Linked across a huge high-altitude bowl on the edge of the Vanoise, Tignes and Val d'Isère form one of the great ski areas of the world — long marketed as the Espace Killy, after Jean-Claude Killy, the Val d'Isère local who swept all three men's alpine golds at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics. With skiing from 1,550 m up to the Grande Motte glacier at over 3,400 m, the season here runs longer than almost anywhere in France.
The two resorts have distinct personalities. Val d'Isère pairs a genuinely old Savoyard village core with polished hotels and the fearsome Face de Bellevarde — the 1992 Olympic downhill mountain that still hosts World Cup racing every December. Tignes is rawer and higher, a cluster of functional villages at 2,100 m surrounded by endless open terrain, with a dam-side story to tell: the old village of Tignes was drowned beneath the Chevril reservoir in 1952, and its church bell tower is still commemorated on the giant dam mural.
Together they offer that rare thing: enough terrain, vertical and off-piste that even a full season doesn't feel like enough.
Signature runs
Face de Bellevarde
The 1992 Olympic downhill designed by Bernhard Russi — a sustained, technical black dropping straight back into Val d'Isère.
Grande Motte glacier runs
Wide glacier pistes from 3,400 m with views to Mont Blanc — skiable from early autumn thanks to the underground funicular.
Le Vallon de la Sache
Tignes' classic marked itinerary: a long, wild descent through a national-park valley down to Les Brévières.
Piste L (La Daille bumps)
The mogul field under the La Daille gondola is where the resort's hotshots audition every afternoon.
Local tips
- Storm day? Head for the treeline runs above Tignes Les Brévières — the only sheltered skiing in the area.
- The Grande Motte funicular beats the cable car queue on cold mornings and gets you to the glacier in minutes.
- La Folie Douce above La Daille invented the on-mountain clubbing genre — go once, at least, for the spectacle.
- Hire a guide for the off-piste classics (Tour de Pramecou, Col Pers) — the terrain is vast and glaciated.
Good to know
- Jean-Claude Killy, who grew up in Val d'Isère, won all three alpine gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
- The original village of Tignes was flooded in 1952 to create the Chevril dam; the new resort was rebuilt high above the lake.
- Skiing here regularly stretches from October or November until early May — one of France's longest seasons.
Slope-by-slope analysis
Every run measured from elevation-aware map geometry: true length, vertical drop, average gradient and a 0–10 slope score that rewards long, sustained descents.
| Run | Difficulty | Length | Vertical | Avg grade | Slope score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col Pers | Freeride | 6.0 km | 1088 m | 18% | 8.2 |
| Génépy | Easy | 4.5 km | 699 m | 15.7% | 7.2 |
| Cugnaï | Freeride | 4.2 km | 927 m | 22.3% | 7.8 |
| Vallons de la Sache | Freeride | 3.9 km | 744 m | 19.2% | 7.2 |
| Coupe du Monde | Intermediate | 3.4 km | 870 m | 25.7% | 7.4 |
| Col Pers | Freeride | 3.0 km | 898 m | 29.8% | 7.4 |
| Pramecou | Advanced | 2.9 km | 342 m | 11.7% | 4.4 |
| Sache | Advanced | 2.8 km | 780 m | 27.6% | 7.0 |
| Double M | Intermediate | 2.8 km | 712 m | 25.7% | 6.6 |
| Myrtilles | Easy | 2.7 km | 212 m | 7.8% | 3.5 |
| Les Grands Vallons | Freeride | 2.5 km | 772 m | 30.3% | 7.0 |
| Face de Bellevarde | Advanced | 2.5 km | 831 m | 32.7% | 7.2 |
| Petit Col | Easy | 2.5 km | 368 m | 14.8% | 4.4 |
| Descente | Advanced | 2.4 km | 568 m | 23.4% | 5.6 |
| Piste L | Easy | 2.4 km | 637 m | 26.2% | 6.1 |
| Pays Désert | Freeride | 2.3 km | 536 m | 23.5% | 5.4 |
| Diebold | Easy | 2.2 km | 415 m | 18.5% | 4.6 |
| Anemone | Easy | 2.2 km | 454 m | 20.6% | 4.8 |
| Génépy | Beginner | 2.2 km | 359 m | 16.4% | 4.2 |
| Fresse | Beginner | 2.2 km | 315 m | 14.4% | 3.9 |
| Germain Mattis | Intermediate | 2.2 km | 429 m | 19.7% | 4.7 |
| Vallée Perdue | Freeride | 2.2 km | 446 m | 20.7% | 4.8 |
| Route du Col | Intermediate | 2.1 km | 134 m | 6.3% | 2.6 |
| Creux | Easy | 2.1 km | 460 m | 22% | 4.9 |
| Arcelle | Intermediate | 2.1 km | 689 m | 33.2% | 6.5 |
| Borsat | Beginner | 2.0 km | 300 m | 15.2% | 3.7 |
| Pyramides | Easy | 1.9 km | 405 m | 21% | 4.5 |
| Épaule du Charvet | Advanced | 1.9 km | 490 m | 26.3% | 5.1 |
| Prariond | Easy | 1.8 km | 337 m | 18.6% | 4.0 |
| Moraine | Intermediate | 1.8 km | 381 m | 21.3% | 4.3 |
| Glacier | Intermediate | 1.8 km | 448 m | 25.1% | 4.8 |
| Henri | Easy | 1.8 km | 352 m | 19.8% | 4.1 |
| Mangard | Easy | 1.8 km | 285 m | 16.1% | 3.6 |
| Verte | Beginner | 1.8 km | 297 m | 16.8% | 3.6 |
| Santons haut | Intermediate | 1.8 km | 495 m | 28.1% | 5.1 |
| Roches | Intermediate | 1.7 km | 379 m | 21.8% | 4.3 |
| Creux | Easy | 1.7 km | 442 m | 25.5% | 4.7 |
| Prariond | Easy | 1.7 km | 342 m | 19.9% | 4.0 |
| Joseray | Intermediate | 1.7 km | 452 m | 27.1% | 4.8 |
| Henri | Easy | 1.7 km | 567 m | 34.3% | 5.7 |
+ 381 more mapped runs and connectors — all of them in the free 3D map in the Bonvo Ski app.
Lift network
91 mapped lifts, moving up to 44,750 skiers per hour.
| Lift | Type | Capacity/h | Ride time | Length | Vertical |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tommeuses | Chairlift | 4,500 | 6 min | 1.6 km | 454 m |
| TSD6 Tichot | Chairlift | 3,600 | 5 min | 1.1 km | 360 m |
| Solaise(heated) | Gondola | 3,600 | — | 2.1 km | 713 m |
| TCD10 des Boisses | Gondola | 3,000 | 5 min | 1.1 km | 409 m |
| TSD6 Grattalu | Chairlift | 3,000 | 5 min | 1.4 km | 304 m |
| TSD6 Aiguille Rouge | Chairlift | 3,000 | — | 1.1 km | 281 m |
| Tufs | Chairlift | 2,700 | 6 min | 1.5 km | 551 m |
| Daille(bubble)(heated) | Gondola | 2,500 | 6 min | 1.7 km | 484 m |
| Grand Huit | Chairlift | 2,400 | 7 min | 822 m | 209 m |
| Pyramides | Chairlift | 2,400 | 4 min | 1.2 km | 403 m |
| TCD8 des Brévières | Gondola | 2,400 | 8 min | 892 m | 202 m |
| Laisinant | Chairlift | 2,100 | 7 min | 1.7 km | 720 m |
| TSD6 Marais | Chairlift | 2,000 | 6 min | 2.1 km | 555 m |
| Fresse | Chairlift | 1,800 | — | 1.9 km | 369 m |
| Paquis | Chairlift | 1,500 | 6 min | 1.6 km | 436 m |
| TSF3 Col des Vés | Chairlift | 1,350 | 14 min | 1.8 km | 346 m |
| Grande Motte | Cable car | 1,100 | 5 min | 1.6 km | 421 m |
| Fornet | Cable car | 1,000 | 2 min | 973 m | 379 m |
| TKE Grande Parei | Drag lift | 800 | 3 min | 123 m | 14 m |
| Aiguille Percée | Chairlift | — | 7 min | 1.0 km | 300 m |
| Funival | Funicular | — | 1 min | 496 m | 136 m |
| Mont Blanc | Chairlift | — | 8 min | 1.1 km | 251 m |
| Tovière | Gondola | — | — | 1.7 km | 608 m |
| TSD6 Bollin | Chairlift | — | 2 min | 577 m | 100 m |
| Merles | Chairlift | — | 5 min | 1.3 km | 276 m |
| Lavachet | Platter lift | — | 2 min | 262 m | 33 m |
| Palafour | Chairlift | — | 5 min | 1.2 km | 461 m |
| TSD6 Chaudannes | Chairlift | — | 5 min | 1.1 km | 385 m |
| TSD4 Lanches(bubble) | Chairlift | — | 10 min | 2.5 km | 739 m |
| Termignon 1 | T-bar | — | — | 749 m | 209 m |
Tignes - Val d'Isère — quick answers
How many ski runs does Tignes - Val d'Isère have?
Tignes - Val d'Isère has 421 mapped downhill runs totalling about 303.1 km of pistes, with the longest single run measuring 6.0 km.
What is the vertical drop at Tignes - Val d'Isère?
The mapped skiable terrain spans 1896 m of vertical, from 1561 m at the base to 3458 m at the top.
How many lifts does Tignes - Val d'Isère have?
Tignes - Val d'Isère operates 91 mapped lifts moving up to 44,750 skiers per hour.
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