The Alps – Top 4 ski resorts that have dogs
What are the 4 best ski resorts in the Alps for holidays with your dog? In this article, discover these 4 ski resorts in the Alps: Orcières Merlette Station in Hautes-Alpes, Les Gets in Haute-Savoie, La Rosière Station in Savoie as well as La Plagne Station!
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Today I suggest you go to the Alps with your dog! Musher and I have listed all ski resorts that accept dogs and in which you can do lots of activities too W'ouf together! Walks, restaurants, bicycles, public transport: we tell you EVERYTHING to spend a Wow Well holiday in the Alps!
We conducted our survey and interviewed many ski resorts to find you plenty of winter mountain tips.
To tell you everything, we have a lot of trouble finding reliable information to send you to enjoy the joys of winter sports with your dog.
I myself have already gone skiing with Musher and I realized that very few resorts had thought of families with dogs…. Not easy to find something to do with your dog! That's why I wanted to highlight the few alpine resorts that invite us to their homes with pleasure!
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Orcières Merlette resort in the Hautes-Alpes
Head to the Hautes Alpes to start. You will find beautiful walks to share with your best 4-legged friend. Before presenting you with the good tips of the resort, I draw your attention to the ski area and its dangers. During the opening hours of the slopes, do not walk your dog on the slopes, it is prohibited because it is ultra mega super dangerous.
Imagine a skier going full tilt and “skiing” onto your dog's paw or worse, making a sun on top of it… This is the skiers' domain, you have nothing to do there.
However, if you want to skiing with your dog, I advise you to opt for cross-country skiing. It is possible to make cross-country skiing leisure centre with his dog.
You will surely meet our friends the huskies who are not idle during the holidays: they offer dog sled outings with their musher.
So take care with your dog so that there is no bad encounter. Huskies “work” and won't always be happy to be “bothered” by your holiday dog.
From the leisure base, there are also several walks to do with your dog on snowshoes on groomed and marked trails. Here are some great tips that are 100% fun with your dog!
- Le Forest des Estaris: 1 hour round trip, a walk to alpine chalets on marked but ungroomed trails.
- The Forest des Marches loop: 2h30/3h a balcony loop that passes through alpine chalets and the hamlet of Les Marches.
- The descent to the hamlets and the leisure base.
- You can also take a nice walk around the Orcière lakes.
Good to know: canisacs are available in the resort. The Tourist Office offers a winter version map of these trails for €2.
As I told you in the article Canine first aid training: useful for the holidays Unfortunately, we are never safe from a small glitch! If your dog catches a little cold, know that there is a vet clinic about thirty minutes from the station at Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur. It's good to know.
Didn't come by car or don't want to use it on vacation? You can take the public transport from the station with your dog. They are accepted in the shuttles of the regular GAP-Orcière Merlette 1850 line as well as in the free shuttles which serve the leisure center from the resort all year round!
Les Gets, ski resort in Haute-Savoie
The resort of Les Gets offers a fine selection of trails accessible with your dog on snowshoes or on foot! Two gondolas are accessible with your dog: Mont-chéry gondola and Chavannes gondola. Ready for a nice walk with your dog in a beautiful snowy setting?
Musher is a big fan of snow. It is a follower of the slide on the belly. She climbs up the slope and lets herself slide down with her legs apart. I love when she does that, she makes me laugh so much. And I see in her eyes that she is having fun!
The resort of Les Gets shared with us a list of walks to do with your doggie:
- The tour of Mont Chéry where you can reach the village of Alpage de Mont-Caly, view of the Mont Blanc range!
- Nauchets belvedere
- La Combe via Mont-Caly, also perfect for admiring the Mont Blanc range
- Lassare you can discover beautiful wooden sculptures
- The Bouchet
- The pleney
- The Golf Tour
- Les Gets village via the round Mouille
- Under the Ranfouilly
- Mount Caly
- Tour of the Mouille lake at Wheat
All these ideas made me want to put on my snowshoes and go on an adventure with my Machouille! To take advantage of winter sports with your dog in all serenity, there are certain precautions to take… Quickly take a look at the advice I give you in the article Winter sports holidays with a dog: precautions to take.
There is no veterinarian in the Les Gets resort; you will have to go to Taninges or Montriond if necessary.
Your dogs are allowed in the station on a leash as well as in buses and small trains! You will find canisacs at the tourist office and in self-service next to the station's garbage cans.
After a good hike, I don't know about you, but Musher and I just want to fill our water bottle! In the resort of Les Gets, there are plenty of dog-friendly restaurants such as: the Tavern, L'Anka, La fruitière des Perrières, Biskatcha, Chasse Montagne, Le christiania, Crêperie des Gets, O Kariboo, Pivotte, Tanière, Le tyrol, Le old oak. Musher is already drooling! And me too… raclette, fondue, tartiflette, sausage, ham… something to regain your strength!
QUALIDOG-certified accommodation in Savoie
Does this article make you want to organize your next mountain vacation with your dog? Do you want to find QUALIDOG-certified accommodation so that your dog is properly welcomed? Find here a selection of QUALIDOG-certified accommodation!
Resort of La Rosière in Savoy
Let's go for a little trip to the Savoyards in the resort of La Rosière. 100% dog-friendly ski resort! There most of the accommodation and restaurants accept dogs. You can make beautiful walks with your dog. The pedestrian link of the forest is allowed to dogs, a nice space to stretch your paws!
You can go picnicking at the plan de l'arc recreation area with your dog where you will have a magnificent view of the Mount Rotten (3882 m) and the valley of the Upper Tarentaise.
You will find canisacs available in this ski resort. Also note that most of the "quiet" activities and entertainment are outdoors and will welcome dogs with pleasure! Visit of the station, roasted marshmallows in winter. Shops are generally accessible with dogs, except for a few food businesses for hygienic reasons (especially caterers)
In the event of a problem with your dog, you can go to the veterinarian in Séez, 15 minutes by car from the resort.
Good news! Dogs are allowed in the resort shuttles, kept on a leash. The service is free for dogs and their masters. The same for pedestrian chairlifts if your dog fits in a bag, he can go up with you!
If you're more in the mood to put on your pair of skis to hit the slopes, you can leave your hairball in a dog boarding establishment in the direction of Bourg-Saint-Maurice (20min by car from the resort).
La Plagne resort
If you go to La Plagne station with your dog, you can take a nice walk in La Boucle De Cavard authorized for dogs on a leash. You will find canisacs available in all stations. You will have beautiful views of the Beaufortain massif and Mont Blanc. Here are some more Tips for hiking to do in the winter with his dog.
Still in this station, thanks to Emilie Binard for having shared with us her good plan for the station of La Plagne “I was able to take Athèna in the telebus last March between Plagne Center and Plagne Village which allows to join the walk of the dou du praz allowed to dogs summer and winter, even detached. At the top altitude restaurant that accepts dogs. And even sled dogs if you're lucky on arrival!”
As a final word, I give the floor to the members of our community who gave us Top W'ouf tips for going to the Alps with a dog on our Facebook !
- “You can stretch your paws with a good cani-cross! For this I recommend the snowshoe track in the Ancelle station accessible with a dog” Thank you @Catoune Bengladesh
- “In the Valloire ski resort in the Northern Alps full of dog friendly hotels and accommodation. You can even take your dog on the cable car!” Thank you @RégineDépaepe
- “In the Praz Le Liz Sommand resort in Haute Savoie you can snowshoe with your dog. You will love this activity to do with a dog in the snow” Thank you @ClémenceLachéry
- “In the resort of Beille, dogs are allowed on the pedestrian and snowshoe trails with a short leash. You will find canisacs at the entrance to the estate.”