La Rosière 1850
Family friendly ski resort with lift links to Italy and some more challenging skiing as well as the option to heli-ski.
Overview
La Rosière skiing
La Rosière is built in traditional chalet style high up on the road from Bourg-St-Maurice to the Petit St Bernard pass to Italy. In winter the road ends at a car park at the top of La Rosière, just below the main lifts. There’s a small main village and an even smaller, newer satellite (Les Eucherts), a short bus ride – or a floodlit forest walk – to the east. La Rosière is lift linked with the Italian resort of La Thuile and has a great snow record. The two resorts, although unlikely stablemates, form a substantial ski area with plenty of long wide runs to please intermediates. La Rosière also provides a useful gateway to some exciting heli-skiing over in Italy, enabling locals and ski holiday makers in France (where heli-skiing is banned) to heli-ski in Italy to their hearts' content (bookable through the Evolution 2 ski school), before returning to France's Tarentaise Valley. The combined area has 33 lifts and 135km of pistes.
The main draw back for those wanting to ski the Italian side is that the lift link is a long pomma lift and not suitable for beginners, young children or snowboarders not proficient in riding long pommas.
La Rosière ski resort
La Rosière, although purpose built, is a gem of quintessential alpine charm. Off Piste activites are limited, although visitors are happy enough whiling away the evenings in the relaxed bars and restaurants (the Petit Danoise is popular and offers Sky tv sports coverage plus internet access) The locals are friendly and the prices are cheaper than most other Tarentaise resorts.
Resort Attributes
Alpine Charm
Beginner Friendly
Family Friendly
Good Beginners
Great Off-Piste
High Altitude
Mountain Restaurants
Reliable Snow
Scenic
Snow Sure
Resort Facilities
Child Care
Gym
Hot Tub
Paragliding
Sauna
Resort Activities
Cross-Country: 5.0
Cross-Country Equipment
Dog Sledding
Heliskiing
Off-Piste: Good
Off-Piste Equipment
Off-Piste Guides
Ski Doos
Ski Touring
Torch Light Descents
Espace San Bernardo

Accommodation
Snow Conditions
Monday, May 1, 2023
Resort Closed
Snow quality: N/A
Last snowfall: N/A
Lifts open: 0 / 38
Slopes open: 0 / 143 km

Season
Opening Hours
Mountain
Valley
Ski Phone
Skiing & Boarding
Beginners
Intermediate
Advanced
Snowboarding
Off-Piste
Transfers
Bourg-Saint-Maurice:
Geneva:
Lyons:
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