Courchevel

Courchevel is one of the most famous ski resorts in France. It is part of the ski region "Three Valleys" (Les Trois Vallées), whose length of slopes reaches more than 600 km.
The history of the founding of Courchevel.
Courchevel 1850 was created during the Second World War by two Frenchmen, Maurice Michaud and Laurent Chappie. Before the war, the former worked as an engineer in the administration of the Savoy region at the foot of the Alps, and the latter wrote a dissertation on urban planning devoted to the development of the "Three Valleys".
After his release from captivity (at the end of the Second World War) in 1946, Michaud returned to his native Savoy, and the local council commissioned him to organize a resort there that could compete with neighboring resorts in Switzerland and Austria.
Michaud turned to Laurent, and for 15 years they built a new type of ski resort. This station has been planned with the maximum use of the terrain and with the minimum damage to nature, where all the tracks converge to one point to be able to move almost without taking off the skis.
So the concept of ski in/ski out, which everyone loves now, was born in Courchevel. Laurent Chappie was also developing the possibility of linking Courchevel 1850 with the lower villages and neighboring valleys, Méribel and Val Thorens, with tracks and lifts.

Currently, Courchevel is divided into four heights:

• Courchevel 1850 is the most expensive, it is possible to go down to Meribel and Val Thorens.
• Courchevel 1650, or now Courchevel Moriond, is a very green resort that has developed in Moriond, a former sparsely populated farm.
• Courchevel 1550 is more democratic in price than the previous ones. You can get to Courchevel 1850 by chair lift (Tovets), cable car (Grangeti) or free shuttles.
• La Prae 1300 is a village resort directly connected to the resort of Courchevel 1850. Four ski runs lead to the slopes of La Prae (les pistes de Brigues, Jean Blanc, Jockeys et Murette), and 2 ski lifts, the Prae cable car and the Foret chairlift, lead to another part of the region.

Characteristics of the resort:

A total of 96 tracks:

Black - 8

Red - 34

Blue - 35

Greens - 19

The maximum height is 2,738 m

The minimum is 1100 m

Lifts: 54, of which 26 cable lifts, 17 chairlifts (15 variable), 10 telecabins, 1 funicular.

Snow park: 1.

Halfpipe: 1.

Après ski:

1. Restaurants: 73 (10 of them with Michelin stars).
2. Discotheques: 2 (Le Folle Douce).
3. Casino and cinema.
4. Aerosani, skating rink.
5. Flight on a steam plane, flight on a balloon, flight on a hang glider.
6. Park Yeti, kindergarten, nursery.
7. Shopping.