Les Marecottes
Les Marecottes is a ski destination in Valais with 14 km of mapped pistes and 4 lifts, between 1'122 m and 2'195 m. Mostly blue, 1 km black. Nearby: Les Marécottes.
Rank Les Marecottes against every ski area near Lausanne for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow and weekend forecast
Snow at the nearest SLF station
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Les Marecottes at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Salanfe (1'965 m, 3.6 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
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
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Lausanne | 1h 02 | 1h 28La Médettaz · 1 change |
| Geneva | 1h 16 | 2h 15La Médettaz · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 1h 20 | 2h 28La Médettaz · 1 change |
| Bern | 1h 50 | 2h 35La Médettaz · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 2h 37 | 3h 42La Médettaz · 3 changes |
| Zug | 2h 58 | 4h 10La Médettaz · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 3h 00 | 3h 40La Médettaz · 3 changes |
| Basel | 3h 01 | 3h 44La Médettaz · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 3h 07 | 3h 56La Médettaz · 3 changes |
| Winterthur | 3h 19 | 4h 12La Médettaz · 3 changes |
| Chur | 3h 27 | 5h 04La Médettaz · 4 changes |
| St. Gallen | 3h 47 | 5h 05La Médettaz · 3 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 Les Marécottes Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 14 km
- Blue pistes
- 10 km
- Red pistes
- 4 km
- Black pistes
- 1 km
- Lifts
- 4
- Top station
- 2'195 m
- Base
- 1'122 m
- Vertical
- 1'073 m
- Longest mapped run
- 6.6 km, from 2'195 m down to 1'122 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 1
- Canton
- Valais
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Les Marecottes are
Blue and red: steeper than most.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 · 9.8 km | 31 % | 28 % | steeper than most |
| Red | 4 · 3.6 km | 46 % | 38 % | steeper than most |
| Black | 1 · 0.4 km | 62 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 62 % on Le Grand Reck (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 1
- La Route Blue · 660 m down over 5.7 km, steepest 100 m at 31 % · Map
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 8 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Les Marecottes (13.8 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 Les Marecottes
OpenStreetMap maps one place to eat or drink up the mountain in Les Marecottes.
- La Creusaz Restaurant · about 1'780 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
About Les Marecottes
Ski areas near Les Marecottes
How popular Les Marecottes is
VerticAlp Vallée du Trient SA counted 73'845 winter first entries (“journées-skieur”) in fiscal year 2024/25.
How many ski here
VerticAlp Vallée du Trient SA counted 73'845 winter first entries (“journées-skieur”) in fiscal year 2024/25. Annual report 2024/25
Each of the twenty areas Seilbahnen Schweiz counts had at least 411'000 skier days in winter 2025/26.
A skier day or first entry is one person on the lifts for one day, whatever the ticket. Skiboard adds no score of its own: the counts are what Seilbahnen Schweiz and the lift companies publish, the placings are polls run by others. Searches and social-media posts follow the news more than skiers, so they are left out.
Les Marecottes in numbers
48 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Salvan, 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 Salvan: it leaves out communes with few hotels.
Homes
48 % of the 1'419 homes in Salvan are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Lifts
VerticAlp Vallée du Trient SA, fiscal year 2024/25: CHF 3.6 million revenue, CHF 2.6 million transport revenue, EBITDA CHF 46'659 and CHF 53'737 invested. The figures cover the whole company, with its hotels, restaurants or sightseeing, not only skiing. Annual report 2024/25
2 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2024 (Les Marécottes La Creusaz); half of them date from 2012 or earlier.
The 2 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Marécottes La Creusaz | gondola | 2024 | 1'374 m | 652 m | TéléMarécottes S.A. |
| La Creusaz – Le Vélard | chairlift | 2012 | 1'305 m | 470 m | TéléMarécottes S.A. |
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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