Glacier 3000
Glacier 3000 is a ski destination in Bern / Valais / Vaud with 22 km of mapped pistes and 17 lifts, between 1'545 m and 2'931 m. Mostly blue and black, 9 km black. Nearby: Aven, Gsteig bei Gstaad, Les Diablerets, Savièse.
Rank Glacier 3000 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 14 cm, 2.4 cm of new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Tsanfleuron (2'569 m), 2.7 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station DIA2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 0 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 1°C, wind 0 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Cabane des Diablerets CAS (2'486 m, 0.8 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
CHF 84 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season.
Source: glacier3000.shop, “1 jour Glacier 3000, Adulte”, read .
For the size: the area maps 22 km of pistes and 1'386 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 57 for . This pass is 46% more.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
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
On the Magic Pass: Magic Pass areas this weekend
Parking at Glacier 3000
Main car park: Parking du Col du Pillon · CHF 5 for a ski day · vaud.ch, read 30 Oct 2026
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Glacier 3000, the biggest first.
- Car park by the Col du Pillon - Cabane · piste 50 m away · Map
- Car park free · 670 m from the Col du Pillon - Cabane · by a piste · Map
- Car park by the Col du Pillon - Cabane · by a piste · Map
- Car park 90 m from the Reusch - Oldenegg - Hors-service · piste 90 m away · Map
- Car park 100 m from the Col du Pillon - Cabane · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 90 m from the Reusch - Oldenegg - Hors-service · piste 70 m away · 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 | 59 min | 1h 49Col-du-Pillon, Glacier 3000 · 2 changes |
| Bern | 1h 20 | 2h 20Reusch, Talstation · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 1h 35 | 2h 32Col-du-Pillon, Glacier 3000 · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 37 | 2h 42Col-du-Pillon, Glacier 3000 · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 06 | 3h 24Reusch, Talstation · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 28 | 3h 52Reusch, Talstation · 4 changes |
| Basel | 2h 31 | 3h 26Reusch, Talstation · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 2h 46 | 3h 22Reusch, Talstation · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 2h 54 | 3h 38Reusch, Talstation · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 02 | 4h 56Reusch, Talstation · 4 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 06 | 3h 54Reusch, Talstation · 3 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 20 | 4h 35Reusch, Talstation · 5 changes |
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 Glacier 3000 Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 22 km
- Blue pistes
- 8 km
- Red pistes
- 5 km
- Black pistes
- 9 km
- Lifts
- 17
- Top station
- 2'931 m
- Base
- 1'545 m
- Vertical
- 1'386 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.8 km, from 2'930 m down to 1'547 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 3
- Canton
- Bern / Valais / Vaud
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Glacier 3000 are
Blue: typical. Red and black: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 8 · 9.2 km | 26 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 4 · 6.8 km | 46 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 5 · 7.8 km | 57 % | 51 % | steeper than most |
The steepest 100 m: 73 % on 114a Black Wall (black).
Flat stretches 3
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 17 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Glacier 3000 (23.8 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour.
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 Glacier 3000
OpenStreetMap maps 3 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Glacier 3000, highest first.
- Botta Restaurant · about 2'920 m · Map
- Refuge L'Espace Restaurant · about 2'840 m · Map
- Cabane des Diablerets Mountain hut · about 2'490 m · 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
Ski schools at Glacier 3000
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| École Suisse de Ski Les Diablerets | CHF 80 per hour | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Glacier 3000. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- École Suisse de Ski Les Diablerets Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 39 per half-day (2 h), children CHF 69 per day, CHF 185 for five half-days, CHF 335 for five days; from age 4; groups of up to 10; lunch supervision CHF 30 a day
- Private lessons
- CHF 80 per hour, CHF 400 for a day (6 h); for up to 2 people
- Times
- children’s group lessons Sunday to Friday, 10:00–12:00 and 13:30–15:30; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Glacier 3000
Ski areas near Glacier 3000
Glacier 3000 in numbers
25'978 winter hotel nights · 34 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Ormont-Dessus, Gsteig and Savièse, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
In winter 2025/26 (November to April) the hotels of Ormont-Dessus sold 25'978 overnight stays, +5.0 % on 2024/25. 40 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 496 beds in 6 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 29'624; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 46 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 70 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then France 10 %, United Kingdom 5 %, Belgium 3 % and Germany 2 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 25'978 | 40 % | 496 |
| 2024/25 | 24'751 | 39 % | 461 |
| 2023/24 | 22'881 | 37 % | 461 |
| 2022/23 | 27'112 | 46 % | 453 |
| 2021/22 | 26'773 | 43 % | 473 |
| 2020/21 | 17'071 | 36 % | 447 |
| 2019/20 | 20'101 | 41 % | 473 |
| 2018/19 | 21'531 | 34 % | 489 |
| 2017/18 | 23'967 | 37 % | 513 |
| 2016/17 | 23'933 | 41 % | 513 |
Homes
34 % of the 8'112 homes in Ormont-Dessus, Gsteig and Savièse are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
6 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 1999 (Col-du-Pillon - Cabane-des-Diablerets); half of them date from 1964 or earlier.
The 6 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Col-du-Pillon - Cabane-des-Diablerets | cable car | 1999 | 1'952 m | 979 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
| Glacier des Diablerets - Scex Rouge | chairlift | 1978 | 373 m | 110 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
| Cabane-des-Diablerets - Glacier-des-Diablerets | cable car | 1964 | 1'661 m | 406 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
| Olden - Oldenegg | chairlift | 1964 | 742 m | 83 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
| Oldenegg - Cabane-des-Diablerets | chairlift | 1963 | 2'327 m | 604 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
| Reusch - Oldenegg | cable car | 1963 | 1'619 m | 571 m | Gstaad 3000 AG |
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 Statistical Office, hotel statistics (HESTA) · Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence
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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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