Pas de la Casa
Slope Breakdown
Pas de la Casa at a glance
Pas de la Casa is a ski resort in Andorra, part of the Grandvalira ski area. It offers 210 km of slopes served by 67 lifts, with skiing between 2,050 m and 2,640 m (590 m vertical). That makes it the 1st largest of the 4 ski resorts in Andorra listed on Intski. The season usually runs from December to April. Pas de la Casa is particularly beginner-friendly: about 47% of its slopes are easy blue runs.
Top features of this resort
Snow forecast
No new snow in the 7-day forecast for Pas de la Casa.
New snow and temperature at the top station. Estimated by Intski from the MET Norway forecast, updated every few hours. Where it snows most this week
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Getting there & lift pass
Nearest airport
Perpignan (PGF) — about 95 km from the resort, straight-line distance, allow more by road.
Lift pass
Adult day pass around 72 EUR (2026/27 season). Grandvalira day pass, high season rate.
About €0.33 per km of piste the pass covers (215 km).
Compare lift pass prices at all resortsPrice source, checked 2026-09-14
Driving to Pas de la Casa
Rules for a car in Andorra, checked 30 September 2026 against official sources.
Road charge
No road charge; Envalira tunnel toll
Winter tyres
Winter tyres or chains on board, 1 Nov to 15 May, on every road
Studded tyres
Allowed 1 Nov to 15 May
Túnel d'Envalira (CG-2, Pas de la Casa – Grau Roig): €8.10
Crossing between Pas de la Casa (French border, RN22) and Grau Roig, Soldeu and the rest of Andorra; Grandvalira Category 1: up to 2 m high and up to 3.5 t, trailer included. Category 2 (2–3 m high, up to 3.5 t) 14.20; Category 3 (over 3 m or over 3.5 t, two axles) 16.30; Category 4 (more than two axles) 20.30; motorcycles 4.80 EUR. 4.5% VAT included. Prices apply from 1 January 2026. Free while the Port d'Envalira road is closed for weather. 50% discount for Pas de la Casa residents and workers.
Pas de la Casa resort facts
These figures cover the whole Grandvalira area, which Pas de la Casa shares with 2 other resorts on Intski, not Pas de la Casa's own sector. Difficulty shares from skiresort.info.
About Pas de la Casa
El Pas de la Casa, or Le Pas de la Case to the French, is three things at once: a ski resort, a town and a mountain pass.
Resort Highlights
Andorra’s border town at 2,050 m
El Pas de la Casa, or Le Pas de la Case to the French, is three things at once: a ski resort, a town and a mountain pass. It lies in Andorra’s Encamp parish, hard against the frontier with France, and it forms part of Grandvalira. The 210 km of pistes and 67 lifts quoted here belong to the whole Grandvalira network rather than to the slopes immediately above the town, and that is the right way to think about a holiday here: Pas de la Casa is a gateway to a large linked area, not a resort you can ski out in two days.
The skiing
The base sits at 2,050 m, which is remarkably high for a resort village anywhere in Europe; a good number of Alpine resorts have top stations lower than that. The lifts reach 2,640 m, so the local vertical is a modest 590 m, and the character is high, open terrain rather than long descents through the trees. What that altitude buys is snow. Our data tags Pas de la Casa as snow-sure, and the base height is the reason: in practice it means the slopes around the town hold their cover early and late in the season, which matters if you are looking at December or April dates. The season runs from December to April.
The pistes are not graded by difficulty in our figures, so it is worth studying the Grandvalira piste map before booking, but a 210 km network with 67 lifts is more than enough to keep a mixed-ability group busy for a week without repeating runs. The ratio works out at roughly one lift per 3 km of piste, a healthy figure for an area of this size, and it means the network is served in depth rather than funnelled through a few bottlenecks.
Character
Pas de la Casa is flagged for its après-ski, and as a town in its own right it has more going on in the evening than a farming hamlet turned resort. Its identity as a pass and a border crossing also makes it the natural first stop for anyone driving into Andorra from France, and it carries a French name, Le Pas de la Case, as well as a Catalan one. If you want a quiet, chocolate-box village, this is not the profile; if you want altitude, a big lift map and a lively evening, it is.
Practicalities
The nearest airport in our data is Toulouse (TLS) in France, roughly 124 km away as the crow flies. Details of the parish and the resort are on the official website.
Frequently asked questions about Pas de la Casa
Grandvalira. The 210 km of pistes and 67 lifts listed for Pas de la Casa are the whole Grandvalira network, of which the town's own slopes are one part.
The base is at 2,050 m, an unusually high altitude for a European resort village, with the lifts reaching 2,640 m. That high base is why our data marks the resort as snow-sure.
Yes. It lies in Andorra's Encamp parish directly on the border with France, and it is also a mountain pass. The French know it as Le Pas de la Case.
It is a town and a mountain pass as well as a ski resort, and it is flagged for après-ski, so expect a lively base rather than a quiet traditional village.
Pas de la Casa has 210 km of marked slopes: 98 km easy (blue), 80 km intermediate (red), 32 km expert (black), served by 67 ski lifts.
The skiing in Pas de la Casa ranges from 2,050 m at the base to 2,640 m at the top — a vertical drop of 590 m.
The ski season in Pas de la Casa typically runs from December to April. Exact opening dates vary by year and snow conditions.
Yes — Pas de la Casa is well suited to beginners. About 47% of the slopes (98 km) are easy blue runs.
Pas de la Casa has 32 km of expert (black) slopes — about 15% of the total.
An adult day pass in Pas de la Casa costs around 72 EUR (2026/27 season). Grandvalira day pass, high season rate.
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