Espace Liberté
Espace Liberté is a ski destination in Valais with 103 km of mapped pistes and 53 lifts, between 994 m and 2'094 m. Mostly blue and red, 6 km black. Nearby: Abondance, Châtel, La Chapelle-d'Abondance, Montriond, Morgins.
Rank Espace Liberté against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, 2.3 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Loz (1'984 m), 8.8 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station GRA2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Pas de Morgins (1'378 m, 4 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Adult day pass
EUR 44 (CHF 40) for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: skipass-chatel.com, “1 Jour Espace Liberté (Châtel / La Chapelle / Torgon), Adulte”, read .
Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
Parking at Espace Liberté
Main car park: P1 Plan de Croix, Torgon · 300 spaces · torgon.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
One car park by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps one car park by the lifts of Espace Liberté.
- Car park free · 40 m from the Djeu des Têtes · by a piste · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 39 min | 1h 23estimate |
| Geneva | 1h 01 | 1h 51estimate |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 04 | 1h 55estimate |
| Bern | 1h 40 | 2h 42estimate |
| Lucerne | 2h 36 | 3h 55estimate |
| Basel | 2h 49 | 4h 12estimate |
| Zürich | 2h 58 | 4h 23estimate |
| Zug | 2h 58 | 4h 23estimate |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 04 | 4h 31estimate |
| Winterthur | 3h 16 | 4h 47estimate |
| Chur | 3h 33 | 5h 09estimate |
| St. Gallen | 3h 48 | 5h 28estimate |
Train: the timetable’s fastest connection leaving the city’s station between 06:30 and 09:30 on Sat 16 Jan 2027, to the valley station of the area’s lowest lift, with the walk from the last stop. Car: an estimate from coordinates, not live traffic. Check your trip on sbb.ch before you go.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Espace Liberté Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 103 km
- Blue pistes
- 52 km
- Red pistes
- 42 km
- Black pistes
- 6 km
- Ski routes
- <1 km
- Lifts
- 53
- Top station
- 2'094 m
- Base
- 994 m
- Vertical
- 1'100 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.7 km, from 2'080 m down to 1'307 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 39
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Espace Liberté are
Blue and red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 18 · 19.6 km | 28 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 14 · 13.6 km | 38 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 2 · 1.2 km | 52 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 57 % on Chermillon (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 34 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Espace Liberté (34.5 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour. Only the Swiss side: swisstopo’s model stops at the border.
Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, on terrain without snow: snow and grooming soften steps, and a piste can run beside its line. A gradient of 100 % is 45°. Colours as OpenStreetMap maps them, which can differ from the lift company’s piste map: check it before you go.
Piste lines from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo. A piste wrong or missing? Fix the map
Mountain restaurants in Espace Liberté
OpenStreetMap maps 39 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Espace Liberté, highest first.
- L'Abricotine Restaurant · Map
- La Crémaillère Restaurant · Map
- La Ferme Restaurant · Map
Show 36 more
- La Passe Montagne Restaurant · Map
- La Pomme de Pin Restaurant · Map
- La T’chapa Restaurant · Map
- La Terrasse Restaurant · Map
- Le Chaudron Restaurant · Map
- Le Petit Lindaret Restaurant · Map
- Les Alpages sur les pistes Café · Map
- Les Barmettes Café · Map
- Les Clarines Restaurant · Map
- Les Marmottes Restaurant · Map
- Les Portes du Soleil Restaurant · Map
- Mamo's Café Café · Map
- Refuge de l'Abricotine Mountain hut · Map
- Le Corbeau Restaurant · Map
- Les Aiguillettes Restaurant · about 1'800 m · Map
- La Ferme des Pistes Restaurant · about 1'700 m · Map
- Chalet Neuf Restaurant · about 1'690 m · Map
- Bienview a la leiche Restaurant · about 1'660 m · Map
- La Bourri Restaurant · about 1'650 m · Map
- La tane o marmottes Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- Restaurant d'Altitude Chez Crépy Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- L'Etable Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- Le Bois Prin Restaurant · about 1'640 m · Map
- Fantaski Restaurant · about 1'630 m · Map
- Terrasse de Morclan Restaurant · about 1'620 m · Map
- L'escale Restaurant · about 1'620 m · Map
- Le Mousseron Restaurant · about 1'460 m · Map
- Le Crêt Restaurant · about 1'360 m · Map
- Le Tseudron Restaurant · about 1'340 m · Map
- L'Abreuvoir Restaurant · Map
- Le Crêt Béni Restaurant · about 1'300 m · Map
- La Perdrix Blanche Restaurant · about 1'300 m · Map
- Le Monchu Restaurant · about 1'290 m · Map
- La grenouille Snack bar · about 1'290 m · Map
- Chez Séverine Snack bar · about 1'240 m · Map
- Le Roitelet Restaurant · Map
Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.
From OpenStreetMap, read 25 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A place missing or closed? Fix the map
About Espace Liberté
Ski areas near Espace Liberté
Espace Liberté in numbers
17 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Collombey-Muraz and Vionnaz, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
The Federal Statistical Office publishes no hotel figures for Collombey-Muraz and Vionnaz: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
17 % of the 6'694 homes in Collombey-Muraz and Vionnaz are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
One installation with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1995 (Plan du Croix - Tête du Tronchey); half of them date from 1995 or earlier.
The 1 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan du Croix - Tête du Tronchey | chairlift | 1995 | 1'576 m | 552 m | Télé-Torgon SA |
Commune figures count every hotel guest, not only skiers, and holiday flats are not in the hotel statistics. A licence year is when the installation’s current federal licence starts: usually the year it opened, sometimes a renewal.
Sources: Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
Featured in
Catalog facts from OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Where an SLF station is nearby, the app shows its measured snow, and the day-pass price is read from the operator’s own shop or tariff; for opening status, check the operator.
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