Ski Area in Morzine

The ski area is loosely comprised of three areas - Pléney and Les Gets, Nyon and Chamossière, Super Morzine and the vast Portes du Soleil.

You can buy a ski pass for either Morzine and Les Gets or Avoriaz, or if you want access to the whole area you can buy a Portes du Soleil ski pass.

Le Pléney and Les Gets

Morzine is ideal for families, with a great mix of beginner and intermediate slopes easily reached from the town centre. You’ll enjoy 120km of pretty, tree-lined pistes perfect for relaxed, scenic skiing.

Les Gets

Les Gets is a charming, accessible resort with beautiful tree-lined runs and stunning views, especially from Mont Chéry. It’s perfect for beginners and intermediates, offering wide, scenic blues and a free beginners’ zone in the Chavannes area. Intermediates can enjoy the Chavannes Bowl, with lifts linking blues, reds, and blacks that all meet in the centre. Mont Chéry provides a quieter experience with steeper red and black runs and a sunny south-facing aspect.

Nyon and Chamossière

Nyon and Chamossière offer excellent skiing for intermediates and advanced skiers, with a great mix of red and black runs and easy direct access from the Nyon car park, bypassing the busy Pléney area. Pointe de Nyon is a highlight, featuring the Aigle Rouge red run, a steep, winding descent with an Alpine pass feel. Confident skiers can venture off-piste to rejoin the main slopes or tackle the mogul-filled Aigle Noir and the wide Combe red. The Chamois red weaves through the trees to join the Lièvre blue, which runs all the way to the Nyon cable car. Beginners can enjoy the Nyon Plateau’s gentle blue runs, while Chamossière offers steeper challenges like the black Creux and the versatile red Arbis, which starts narrow and steep before opening into a wide, carving-friendly slope. Overall, it’s a brilliant area for varied, scenic, and exciting skiing.

Super Morzine

Opposite Pléney, the Super Morzine gondola links directly to Avoriaz and the vast Portes du Soleil ski area. While beginners can enjoy local slopes without a full pass, the wider area offers endless variety for confident skiers. Spanning 12 resorts across France and Switzerland, the Portes du Soleil boasts 600km of pistes, 307 marked runs, 30 snowparks, and 208 lifts. You’ll find everything from gentle greens and wide blues to challenging reds and blacks, all with reliable snow and stunning alpine scenery.

Avoriaz

Perched 600m above Morzine, Avoriaz is a snow-sure resort easily reached by the Super Morzine, Prodains, or Lindarets gondolas. It’s famous for its six snowparks, including Europe’s first freestyle park, and offers fantastic skiing for all levels. Beginners and families will find gentle runs, while intermediates and experts can enjoy 250km of blue and red pistes, powder fields in Lindarets and Châtel, challenging black runs, and the legendary Swiss Wall for true thrill-seekers.

Linga and Châtel 

The Châtel and Linga areas of the Portes du Soleil offer something for every level of skier, with a good mix of reds and plenty of long, scenic runs, though no black pistes. Experienced skiers will enjoy the steep reds in the Linga sector, accessible via the Chaux Fleurie lift from Lindarets, and the long Les Rochassons run, which takes most reds down to Plain Dranse. Off-piste enthusiasts can explore lift-accessible powder fields along the ridge between Pré la Joux and Lac du Montriond, just a short hike from Chaux Fleurie or Rochassons. In Châtel, the TS des Combes lift serves the red Le Linga, a long top-to-bottom descent into Villapeyron, with Gabelou and Portes du Soleil lifts providing further exploration. The area also has a freestyle park with an airbag and Nike Chosen Series modules, while quieter powder fields offer hidden thrills for adventurous skiers.

St Jean d'Aulps

St Jean d’Aulps is a quieter, stand-alone area in the Portes du Soleil, though not connected by lifts or pistes to the main resort. Just a 20-minute drive from Morzine, it’s a hidden gem covered by a full area pass. With mostly blue and red runs, plus one black, it’s ideal for mixed abilities. The high points, Col de Grayon and Grande Terche at 1,800m, offer scenic, long red runs back to the base.

The Swiss resorts of the Portes du Soleil

The Swiss Portes du Soleil resorts—Les Crosets, Morgins, Champoussin, Champery, Val-d’Illiez, and Torgon—are reachable from Avoriaz or Châtel. They feature snowparks, challenging red runs, and the infamous Swiss Wall, a 1km unpisted mogul descent with 331m vertical drop, strictly for expert skiers.

Les Crosets

The largest resort in Swiss sector, Les Crosets is easily reached from Lindarets via the Express Mossettes lift. From here, a long red run descends all the way to Champéry, and there’s a large snowpark accessible via TS Crosets II.

Morgins and Champoussin

Further out, Morgins and Champoussin can be reached by following the long blue run from Mossettes. Morgins offers enough terrain for a full day’s skiing, but be mindful of the last lift back to France.

For a quieter experience, Torgon is often overlooked and has fewer crowds. It’s reachable from the Châtel sector, and offers empty pistes and stunning views, especially from the Morclan summit. The Tronchey chairlift area also has a fun freeride section when conditions are right.

If you head over to the Swiss resorts in The Portes du Soleil, ensure you leave enough time to reach the lifts you need to get home - taxis home aren't cheap.

Snow conditions permitting the ski season in Morzine usually runs from mid-December to early April.

That strong winter sun means the snow can turn from ice to slush pretty quickly if you're here late in the season. But whenever you choose to come, the local pisteurs will make the best of the conditions and groom the pistes to perfection.

If you're coming skiing early or late in the season

It's a good idea to check which lifts are open in Morzine. You might want to check the Morzine webcams too, for an up-to-the minute view of conditions on the ground.

Morzine sits at the heart of the Portes du Soleil, one of the largest linked ski areas in the world. It’s directly connected to Avoriaz and Les Gets in France, as well as Swiss resorts like Champéry, Les Crosets, and Champoussin. From Morzine, you can ski seamlessly across 12 resorts in the Portes du Soleil, enjoying around 650km of pistes that span both French and Swiss terrain, all without ever taking off your skis.

Morzine and Les Gets offer plenty of terrain for advanced skiers. 

At Le Pléney, reds like Rénard, Fouine, and Abeille are wide and steep, with the Olympique black and Aigle Noir moguls for extra challenge. Chavannes has blacks Yeti and Myrtilles, plus off-piste through the trees. Mont Chéry is quieter, with shaded reds and blacks and tree-lined off-piste after fresh snow. Nyon features steep reds like Aigle Rouge and mogul-filled Aigle Noir, while Chamossière, at 2,002m, offers Les Creux black and Arbis red with stunning views. Mélèzes provides long, roller-filled reds for a fun descent.

Le Pléney is perfect for beginners, with gentle, tree-lined greens and blues, including Piste B, Corbeau, and Grizzli, all leading back to the Pléney télécabine. In Les Gets, the Chavannes area offers free beginner zones, magic carpets, a tow rope, and a kids’ ski park with small jumps and decorations, while the Chavannes Express provides longer scenic blues. Nyon Plateau features wide beginner blues like Lièvre and Pâquérages, with narrower options to the Troncs chair. Super Morzine links to Avoriaz and offers slightly more challenging wide blues like Zore and Tetras, ideal for building confidence.

The Portes du Soleil is a freestyle hotspot with numerous snowparks, boardercross courses, a superpipe, and airbags for all abilities, mostly in Avoriaz but with options across the area. Nyon has a small snowpark upgraded in 2023, featuring narrow kickers and short landings, though it can get busy with ski schools. Les Gets offers beginner and intermediate rails, boxes, pole jams, hips, spines, and a seasonal airbag. Its boardercross under the Chavannes lift is the best in the region, hosting international competitions with tabletops and banked corners, ideal for advanced skiers.

The ski area is vast and it can be difficult to know where to start, so we have put together some of our favourite runs throughout the Morzine ski area, whether you're into moguls, steep and long descents or simply beautiful, quiet pistes with great snow. 

Above Morzine, Nyon and Chamossière peaks are top off-piste spots, offering lift-accessed powder without long hikes. Nyon has multiple lines between pistes, while Chamossière features a wide, unpisted bowl, though it can get tracked quickly. In Les Gets, the quiet Mont Chéry side provides excellent off-piste, accessible from the TC Mont Chéry and Grande Ourse chairs, with options around the Bouquetin black run and Chavannes Bowl. All runs lead back to lifts, making exploration easy. Always check avalanche conditions and consider hiring an off-piste guide for safety when venturing into these areas.

For low-visibility days, stick to tree-lined pistes, as the trees provide definition when everything else is white. 

In Morzine, many Pléney runs are tree-lined, while routes from Nyon Plateau down to the Charniaz bowl or Nyon base offer protection from wind and better visibility. 

In Les Gets, the off-piste lines under the TC des Chavannes lift converge at the bottom of the télécabine, and the lift’s bubble shelter keeps you warm between runs. Tree-lined runs are the safest and most enjoyable choice in white-out conditions.