Pila, in Val d’Aosta, is the famous and panoramic ski resort that can be reached in less than 20 minutes by cable car directly from Aosta. An always sunny basin, with a spectacular view of Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, the Rosa, the Grand Combin and all the other main Aosta Valley peaks, 4 black runs, 21 red and 4 blue for a total of 70 skiable km, from 2700 meters of Platta de Grevon and Couis 2.
Alpine skiing, snowboarding, freestyle, telemark and even ski mountaineering and freeriding: in Pila skiing is truly for everyone, from beginners who find simple slopes and school camps to learn to more demanding skiers who find curves, walls and black slopes suited to their needs between Chamolé, Couis and Platta de Grevon.
Skiing in Pila: information on facilities, slopes, ski passes, weather
Pila is located in the municipality of Gressan, among larch and fir forests, where you can find accommodation surrounded by nature and perfect for relaxation. However, nothing prevents you from experiencing the liveliness of Aosta and reaching the ski slopes with the cable car, forgetting the car and the stress of parking. Do you want to know the 4 reasons why to go skiing in Pila? Here they are:
1. Convenient to reach directly from Aosta, even just for a weekend or a day of skiing
2. Spectacular panorama on the most beautiful mountains of the Aosta Valley and the entire Alps
3. Kissed by the sun in summer as in winter
4. Grande variety of slopes from skis
Ski slopes in Pila
The ski slopes in Pila are many, beautiful, always perfectly covered in snow and specifically left a little “rough” for lovers of moguls and powder. From 2750 meters of Couis 1 to 1540 meters of Plan di Praz there is a variety of ski slopes that allows everyone, from beginners to true experts, to find fun for all the time they spend on skis.
Among the black slopes, the best known among skiers are the Couis 1, the Leissè and the Pista del Bosco, but the really good ones also put themselves to the test on the Chamolè wall. In the Grimod area, where a four-seater chairlift arrives.
Then there’s it Snowpark Areaeffe, temple of snowboarders and freestylerswith two lines of rails, rail boxes and fun boxes combined with snow structures and kickers up to 17 meters as well as a real “jibbing” route over 500 meters long, as well as a beginners area where you can learn in complete safety.
And for the little ones, behind the arrival station of the cable car from Aosta, there is the Fun Park Chacard, with two super easy tracks served by treadmills, snow tubing, bobsleighs and sleds, and many games and inflatables for fun in the snow.
Number of tracks: 29
Km sciabili: 70
Easy blue slopes: 4
Intermediate red slopes: 21
Difficult black slopes: 4
Height difference: 1300 meters
Ski lifts in Pila
There are 16 ski lifts in Pila, with an hourly capacity of 19,700 people in pre-COVID times. As with the slopes, considerable investments have been made for the facilities in recent years and today they are mostly available modern, comfortable and well-functioning systemswith an excellent ability to deal with expectations. Number of systems: 16
Cable cars: 1
Chair lifts: 8
Gondola lifts: 3
Conveyor belt: 4
Hourly flow rate: 19.700
Skipass and Pila
The ski pass in Pila can also be recharged online, all you need is the Rechargeable batterythe magnetic card that allows you to ski hands-free on all the ski lifts in the Aosta Valley, or purchase one of the other online ski pass systems accepted in the resort.
For the season 2023-2024 the daily adults in high season on holidays costs 53 euros.
Outside the high season and for beginners there are prices decidedly facilitated come you can see it in detail on the Pila Snowland website.
Snow weather in Pila
Pila gode di a privileged position and conformation among the ski resorts of the Aosta Valley. Protected from strong winds, it enjoys abundant snowfall and the slopes above 1800 meters are mostly north-facing, which allows the snow to last a long time. For the rest, when there is bad weather elsewhere, the sun often shines in Pila and if bad weather grips it, just take advantage of the slopes at lower altitudes, in the woods, to ski anyway, safely and pleasantly.
Hotels and accommodations in Pila
In Pila, at high altitude, or in Aosta, at the bottom of the valley, there is no shortage of possibilities for finding accommodation, and they can truly satisfy all tastes. In addition to hotels of every category and for all budgets, Pila has no shortage of chalets, guest roomsa refuge and also a campsite, to really allow anyone to enjoy their snow holiday as they prefer.
Other snow activities in Pila
Pila is the capital of freestyle, in summer in the Pila Bike Land bikepark and in winter in the Areaeffe snowpark, at an altitude of 2200 metres, reachable by the 4-seater Grimod chairlift. Another specialty of the locality are the families, with two station miniclubs (one of which with entertainment and, upon reservation, the possibility of leaving the children while the parents have fun on the slopes) and a fun Funpark served by a treadmill with slopes for snow tubing, bobsleigh and sleds. And then the ski mountaineering and freeride tripsstarting from the challenging route that starts from Platta de Grevon, at 2700 meters (also reachable by covered treadmill that starts from the Couis 1 arrival station) and goes down to Plan De L’Eyve, at 2200 metres.
How to reach Pila
Stack it easily reachable from the A5 Valle d’Aosta motorway. The simplest and fastest way is to take advantage of the cable car that leaves directly from Aosta city, otherwise by car it’s about twenty km of hairpin bends up to the municipality of Gressan.
Contacts for skiing in Pila
Pila Spa, loc. Stack
11020 GRESSAN (AO)
Telephone: 0165 521148
Fax: 0165 521437
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.pila.it
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