Pralognan-la-Vanoise

About the area

Pralognan-la-Vanoise is a small area: about 25 km of pistes, of which 59% (15 km) are green or blue. Nine short easy runs sit next to a lift base, so first-timers and improvers have somewhere to repeat turns, though 18% of the terrain is black, so the mix is less gentle than the headline figure suggests. Experts will run out of ground quickly: only 5 km is black, with 821 m of vertical on the longest descent. Families should note there is just one cable car, so most access is by chairlift or drag lift.

Twelve lifts serve the slopes between 1,405 m and 2,335 m, split into one cable car, four chairlifts and seven drag lifts. The longest run measures 2,546 m. With a modest top height, snow cover is best judged before you book. There are also 11 km of cross-country trails.