All aboard the ski bus!

En français svp

How does a transit nerd prepare for a vacation in the Alps?

• Lift pass, check
• Ski wax, check
• Incorporating the transit data feeds for every ski bus in France… uh…. check?

When our transit data analyst, Derek, isn’t bombing down moguls, he’s busy making sure his fellow snowboard and ski-thusiasts can get to the slopes without a car.

Say hello to all ski buses that he recently added to Transit app, including:

Ski buses in the Northern Alps

La Clusaz & Le Grand-bornand

• Aravis Bus

L’Alpe d’Huez

• Resalp

Les 2 Alpes

• Transaltitude (via Grenoble’s TGV Train station)

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

• The Mont-Blanc Bus, serving Chamonix Valley (Le Tour, Les Houches, Grands Montets, and Brévent-Flégère)

Evasion Mont-Blanc

• Meg-Bus, serving Megève (Mont d’Arbois, Rochebrune, and Côte 2000)

Les Portes du Soleil

• Navettes Montriond, serving Avoriaz, Lac de Montriond, Montriond Village, and Téléphérique de Nyon
• Navettes Morzine-Avoriaz, serving Avoriaz, Super Morzine, and Ardent Télécabine
• Balad’Aulps Bus, serving Morzine
• Châtel Bus, serving Super-Châtel, Linga, and Pré-la-Joux
• Les Gets Bus, serving Chavannes, Mont Chéry, and Les Perrières

Paradiski

• The ARA Cars Région Savoie Altibus, serving La Plagne (via the Aime SNCF train station to La Plagne 1800, la Plagne Centre, and La Plagne Soleil), as well as Montchavin (via Landry)

Espace Diamant

• The Navette Praz-sur-Arly Skibus, serving Espace Diamant in Val d’Arly

Grand Massif

• Skibus Carroz / Flaine, serving Les Carroz, Arâches-la-Fresse, and Flaine
• The Giffre navettes, serving Flaine, Les Carroz, Morillon, and Sixt

Valmeinier & Valloire

• Skibus Valloire, serving Valloire-Galibier (Col du Galibier, Crey du Quart, Télésiège de la Sétaz)
• Skibus Valmeinier, serving Valmeinier and the various villages nearby (Valmeinier 1800 and Valmeinier 2500)

Tarentaise valley

• Navettes station Val d’Isère including La Daille, Le Fornet, and Solais
• The Tignes navettes, serving the various villages in Tignes (Tignes 1800, Le Lac, Val Claret, Lavachet, and also Val d’Isère)
• The Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise navettes, serving Sainte Foy Ski Resort (with links to Tignes and Val d’Isère)

Les 3 Vallées

• The Cœur de Tarentaise navettes, serving Val Thorens, Les Menuires, and Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
• The Altibus from Moutiers to Val Thorens
• The Skibus Courchevel, serving La Praz to Courchevel 1850 but also other places (like La Tania and Méribel) 
• Méribus, serving Méribel in Les 3 Vallées (with connections to Courchevel and Val Thorens)

Villard-de-Lans

• Navette Villard-de-Lans, serving Vercors Massif (Villard-de-Lans/Corrençon, Côte 2000, and Pic Saint-Michel)

Ski buses in the Southern Alps

Les Orres

• Vaï shuttle, serving Les Orres (1550, 1650 and 1800)

Parc Naturel du Queyras

• The Guillestrois-Queyras navettes, serving the Parc Naturel Régional du Queyras (Ceillac, Saint-Véran, and Mont Viso)

Puy-Saint-Vincent and Vallouise

• Transports du Pays des Écrins, serving Pays des Écrins (L’Argentière-la-Bessée and Puy-Saint-Vincent) and offering connections between villages (i.e. PSV 1400 & 1600)

Mercantour National Park (Isola 2000 & Valberg)

• Lignes d’Azur, connecting the Alps to the coast (via Vauban station in Nice, to Isola 2000, Auron, and Beuil)
• Navettes de Valberg (Péone)

Serre Chevalier

• Zou 55, via the Briançon SNCF Train Station

Superdévoluy, Risoul, Vars

• Zou, serving Superdevoluy, Orcières-Merlette, and Risoul
• The Navettes Blanches Station de ski via Marseille

Ski buses near Massif Central

• ARA Cars Régions P74 bus serves Super Besse from the Clermont-Ferrand SNCF Train station

Ski buses in the Pyrenees

• LiO, serving Font Romeu (from Perpignan), Saint-Lary-Soulan via the 963 (from Lannemezan), and Les Angles via the 560 and 561

… plus the Saint-Tropez navettes. Because why not throw in a sea level vacation spot for good measure? 😉

These French bus services join many other Transit app-supported systems in mountain towns across the US and Canada across the Rockies, Cascades, as well as the Columbia and Coast Mountains, such as…

Canada

British Columbia

• BC Transit is the bus operator for Revelstoke, Whistler, and Vancouver’s very own Grouse Mountain (make sure to say hi to the Sedin Twins while you’re there!)

Alberta

• Banff: Roam Transit buses to Banff
• Jasper: Jasper Transit buses to Jasper 

Quebec

• Saint-Jovite: BUS Mont-Tremblant and L’Inter Des Laurentides serve the Mont-Tremblant Reso

USA

Colorado

• Breckenridge: Summit Stage buses to the Breckenridge Ski Resort, Copper Mountain, Keystone, and Arapahoe Basin (A-Basin)
• Aspen: Roaring Fork Transportation Authority buses to Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands, while Snowmass buses to (you guessed it) Aspen Snowmass
• Steamboat Springs: Steamboat Springs Transit buses to the Steamboat Resort via the Gondola Transit Center
• Winter Park: The Lift buses to Winter Park Resort and Mary Jane Territory
• Crested Butte: Gunnison Valley RTA buses to Crested Butte Mountain Resort
• Vail: the local buses will cart you from town to the various gondolas, as well as Solaris Plaza for your après-ski needs

Oregon

• Hood River: CAT serves Mount Hood via the Mountain Express Bus

Utah

• Park City: Park City Transit buses to Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Mountain Resort
• Salt Lake City: UTA serves Alta Ski Area, Snowbird, Brighton Resort, Solitude 
• Mountain Resort, Snowbasin Resort. as well as the Sundance Mountain Resort

Vermont

• Stowe: Green Mountain Transit serves Stowe Mountain Resort

Washington

• Wenatchee: SkiLink serves Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort

Wyoming

• Jackson: START buses to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

Got a mountain town we’ve missed? Send it to Transit app’s ski patrol.

Because why drive to the slopes? The bus was made to plow through fresh pow!