Bike Park

Open from 5 July to 30 August 2025, 7/7, 9am – 5.40pm

The Bike Park of La Plagne is located in Savoie, in the Northern Alps (Tarentaise valley). Discover the mountain biking trails of La Plagne in video:

The Colorado of the Alps

Maintained and supervised all summer by 5 watchful bike patrollers, the Colorado bike park is La Plagne’s little gem! Downhill enthusiasts keep coming back for more, especially as all the family is welcome. With green, blue, red and black runs, everyone, from beginners to experienced riders, can have fun.

Race through the Bike Park!

Discover downhill mountain biking in the Alps at La Plagne Bike Park

Do you like mountain biking? Do you love adrenalin? Why not take a downhill mountain biking course with an instructor?

The Bike Park at La Plagne is particularly suitable for beginners, with its four green trails (easy level) and 5 blue trails (intermediate level).

Under the expert eye of your instructor, you'll learn the basics of downhill mountain biking: how to adopt the right position on your bike (spoiler: standing on your pedals, not sitting on the saddle, deliberately set very low...), how to brake effectively and at the right moment, how to choose your trajectory, take a banked turn, a small bump... and even how to hook your mountain bike to the chairlift (and then unhook it at the finish)!

Mountain bike schools in La Plagne offer half-day, full-day and even weekly DH courses. Perfect for building confidence and making rapid progress!

Downhill mountain biking courses are not just for beginners. Are you used to riding on blue or red trails? Your instructor will give you all the tips you need to gain fluidity and style from the top to the bottom of your favorite line.

No holds barred!

Are you used to putting your bike's suspension to the test on all types of DH trails? Do you enjoy riding on trails that demand precision and commitment? Here are three downhill tracks that should please you:

A trail to set your sights on: the red Redskins track (difficult level), a concentration of banked turns (and jumps) over 1.4 km that will require a few rotations to fine-tune your trajectories and obtain the perfect (so satisfying!) flow.
A track to take to the skies: the red Thunderbolt track (difficult level), with its many tables to work on your take-offs and recep'.
A slope to send the heavy stuff : the black run X'trem Canyon (very difficult level), highly technical with numerous drops and gaps, and narrow, stony sections in the forest. THE most difficult track in the Bike Park!

Don't hesitate to ask the bike patrols for advice when you come across them with their shovels and picks in the area: they'll give you little "tips" as close to the terrain as possible (which bend has just been "cleaned", which table has recently been resurfaced...).

Have you "finished" all the downhill runs in the Bike Park? Then take a look at the 10 highly technical enduro trails! Among the 8 red-level (difficult) enduro runs , you'll want to try out the Dré'Val, one of the most beautiful runs in the area, with its 12 km length and 1100 m negative vertical drop. As for the black runs, the magnificent Praizes route in the Montchavin forest will delight fans of hairpin bends and "pif-paf"...

Which mountain bike to choose for riding in the Bike Park?

Forget immediately about the mountain bike you use for riding on forest trails! Or, worse yet, your superb gravel bike… To ride in the Bike Park, you must equip yourself with a downhill mountain bike. These big fully suspended bikes are specially designed to withstand shocks and absorb the impacts inherent to the discipline.

Because yes, downhill is anything but a peaceful ride… and that’s exactly why we love it! Terrain movements, series of bumps, jumps over a gap (a more or less deep empty space) or from a wooden bridge, banked turns, technical passages through rocks… Downhill mountain biking is a bumpy ride! And the double suspension is more than welcome to protect both the bike and your joints…

Rent your downhill mountain bike and protective gear at La Plagne.

Good to know: at La Plagne, mountain biking is not only practiced on the downhill trails of the Bike Park. Want to tackle the enduro trails? Or the e-MTB routes for half a day or a full day? You will need to change your bike for more comfort on the climbs (a downhill mountain bike is heavy…).

Ask for advice from the mountain bike and e-MTB rental shops: they know the mountain biking trails around La Plagne and Champagny-en-Vanoise perfectly and will guide you towards the bike that best suits your desires (versatile enduro mountain bike, electric-assist mountain bike).

Map of the Bike Park at La Plagne in the Northern Alps

The Bike Park in La Plagne is concentrated around three mountain bike lifts accessible from Plagne Centre (Colorado and Bergerie chairlifts) and Plagne Bellecôte (Colosses chairlift).
Have you booked accommodation in another La Plagne village? Use the free shuttle service and mountain-bike-friendly inter-village lifts to reach the Bike Park's three chairlifts.

The Bike Park's downhill mountain bike trails are classified according to their level of difficulty:

The 4 green trails are the easiest, suitable for beginners and children (depending on their motor development).
The 5 blue trails are intermediate, ideal for progressing once you've mastered the green trails.
The 2 red runs are difficult and are aimed at regular downhill mountain bikers.
The black run is the most difficult in the mountain biking area. It's highly technical and physical (lots of slope, narrow trail, big jumps, etc.), making it a trail for expert downhill mountain bikers only!

Good to know: there's no equivalent level of difficulty between ski slopes and mountain bike trails. So, for example, you might be able to hurtle down a black ski slope in winter, but have a green mountain bike slope in summer. This is perfectly normal: the two disciplines (skiing and mountain biking) are completely different...

On the reverse side of the Bike Park downhill trails map, you'll find other MTB and VTTAE trails: enduro trails (more "natural", and therefore more technical, and sometimes with uphill sections) as well as VTTAE itineraries to explore by the day or half-day.
Also take a look at the E-Spots, these fun areas in the resort specially set up to learn how to handle your VTTAE before setting off on itineraries of several dozen kilometers. As well as VTTAE recharging pointsrecharging points, where you can charge the battery of your electrically-assisted mountain bike.

A final useful service on rainy days: wash stations to remove all traces of mud from your precious toy.

Download the La Plagne Bike Park trail map

The opening dates of the Bike Park of La Plagne

The Bike Park of La Plagne is open every day from July 5 to August 30, 2025.

During this period, you can use the three ski lifts of the Bike Park (the Colorado chairlift, the Bergerie chairlift, and the Colosses chairlift), and ride on the 12 downhill trails of green, blue, red, and black levels.

Good to know: the Bike Park of La Plagne reaches an altitude of 2300 m (arrival of the Colorado chairlift), which means that the opening of the mountain bike trails is guaranteed from the end of June, with no risk of encountering snow on the paths (unlike high-altitude bike parks, where some snow patches persist until early summer).

If you would like to use the lifts to get to the mountain peaks to race back down, come to the tourist offices or the Colorado chalet to buy your ticket !