Ride the best blue runs in Champagny La Plagne
La Plagne is famed for its wide-open intermediate runs that are perfect for improving confidence and honing your skiing and snowboarding. However, one area frequently gets overlooked by visitors to the area – namely the massive Champagny sector on the south-facing side of the resort. If you take this route you’ll ride the best blue runs in La Plagne, Champagny which are also some of the resort’s longest. This part of La Plagne stretches down as far as the village of Champagny-en-Vanoise and is also one of the quietest areas of La Plagne.
In this guide, you’ll follow a route (including lifts) to see the best blue intermediate pistes around Champagny which are all above the treeline so remain relatively snow-sure through the season. Of course, being south-facing, this area may suffer a little in late / early season or in low-snow years but the height of the pistes normally assures good conditions regardless. If you enjoy this guide and video, please follow La Plagne 360 on Facebook for more or sign up to the iRide YouTube channel which features countless La Plagne video guides.
La Plagne Champagny best intermediate pistes
Note, this route starts in Plagne Bellecôte (see our Plagne Bellecôte piste guide). If you’re coming from other La Plagne villages, you’ll need to get over to the base of the Blanchets chair in Bellecôte. Alternatively, you could also start from Plagne Centre taking the Funiplagne followed by the Petite Rochette blue to the top of the Geisha blue piste (see the La Plagne piste map to work out your route).
La Plagne Champagny best blue runs piste maps
The piste maps above show the route to ride the best blue pistes in Champagny. As noted above, this route starts at Plagne Bellecôte but could easily be joined from Plagne Centre too. On the way back, you would simply take the Colosses chair next to the base of the Blanchets start point.
La Plagne Champagny best blue runs
This video show a route to ride the best blue runs in La Plagne, Champagny – an area that is often disregarded by riders who tend to congregate around Centre, Plagne Villages, Plagne Soleil and Plagne Bellecôte. This is mainly because the Champagny sector appears a little isolated – particularly as it occupies a different section of the piste map. However, don’t let that put you off discovering one of La Plagne’s hidden gems. This route to Ride the best blue runs in La Plagne, Champagny also features one of La Plagne’s longest blue pistes – the famed three-part Levasset blue from Roche de Mio down to the summit station of the Champagny gondola.
While there isn’t much uplift in this area, what there are are some of La Plagne’s fastest lifts including the long Verdons Sud and Carella chairs.
Other La Plagne blue piste guides
To see a selection of the best blue pistes in other areas of La Plagne, check the links below for more information and route videos. You could also look at our Ultimate La Plagne FAQ page for dedicated guides to the best runs in La Plagne plus lots more information about the area.
Plagne Bellecôte best blue pistes
Grande Rochette (Plagne Centre, Plagne Soleil, Plagne Villages) best blue pistes
Biolley Aime 2000 best blue pistes (including La Roche)
The best times to ride La Plagne Champagny
As Champagny is a south-facing lower area in La Plagne, the base runs are usually the earliest to close (Mont de la Guerre and Les Bois). You should bear this in mind if you’re booking accommodation in the village at the start and end of the season as you’ll typically need to download by the Champagny gondola. To get a better idea of what to expect from your La Plagne ski holiday, check our other snow and conditions guides that detail typical snow and conditions month by month: La Plagne in December, La Plagne in January, La Plagne in February, La Plagne in March and La Plagne in April. There’s also an abbreviated, shorter version at when is the best time to ski in La Plagne.
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