Slope Breakdown
Pila at a glance
Pila is a ski resort in Italy, part of the Pila area. It offers 70 km of slopes served by 11 lifts, with skiing between 1,800 m and 2,700 m (900 m vertical). That makes it the 22nd largest of the 30 ski resorts in Italy listed on Intski. The season usually runs from December to April. Pila is an intermediate's mountain: roughly 73% of the slopes are red runs.
Top features of this resort
Snow forecast
About 9 cm of new snow at the top (2,700 m) in the next 3 days, 3 cm at the base.
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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An alert when 15 cm or more is on the way at Pila, and a heads-up before it opens.
Getting there & lift pass
Nearest airport
Turin (TRN) — about 64 km from the resort, straight-line distance, allow more by road.
Lift pass
Adult day pass around 58 EUR (2025/26 season). Pila day pass, high season rate.
About €0.83 per km of piste the pass covers (70 km).
Compare lift pass prices at all resortsPrice source, checked 2026-09-14
Driving to Pila
Rules for a car in Italy, checked 30 September 2026 against official sources.
Road charge
Motorway tolls by distance
Winter tyres
Winter tyres or chains on board, 15 Nov to 15 Apr, on signed roads (Valle d'Aosta from 15 Oct)
Studded tyres
Unclear: allowed up to 3.5 t; the period is not confirmed on an official page
Pila resort facts
Difficulty shares from skiresort.info, applied to the area total.
About Pila
Pila is unusual among Italian resorts in being tied directly to a city. It is a frazione of the comune of Gressan in the Aosta Valley, and a cable car runs up from Aosta, the nearest city, which is also linked by road.
Resort Highlights
Aosta’s own ski resort, reached by cable car from the city
Pila is unusual among Italian resorts in being tied directly to a city. It is a frazione of the comune of Gressan in the Aosta Valley, and a cable car runs up from Aosta, the nearest city, which is also linked by road. The resort itself sits at 1,814 m, well above the valley floor, and the skiing goes up to 2,700 m.
The skiing
Our data lists 70 km of pistes and 11 lifts, and Wikipedia fills in the detail. The runs are graded 4 blue, 29 red and 4 black, and the lift system consists of one cable car, two gondolas and eight chairlifts, which add up to the 11 lifts in our data, plus five conveyors for beginners that are counted separately. That colour breakdown is the single most useful fact about Pila: with 29 reds against four blues and four blacks, this is overwhelmingly an intermediate mountain. Confident parallel skiers will be in their element; complete beginners have the conveyors and a handful of easy runs to learn on; experts have four blacks and not a great deal else on-piste. Freestylers get a pipe zone and a slopestyle zone.
The lifts climb from 1,800 m to 2,700 m, 900 m of vertical, and with the top station at 2,700 m the altitude helps snow reliability. The season runs from December to April. Eleven main lifts for 70 km is a lean ratio, so expect longer lifts and longer runs rather than a dense web of short ones. It is also worth noting that the whole 900 m of vertical lies between 1,800 m and 2,700 m, altitudes at which snow generally holds through the season, which is more than can be said for resorts whose base is down on the valley floor.
Setting
Our data flags Pila for scenic views, and a resort perched at 1,800 m above the city of Aosta earns that easily. The cable-car link changes the logistics too: you can stay down in Aosta, a proper city, and ride up each morning, or stay up in Pila itself. Pila is a frazione, an outlying hamlet of Gressan, rather than a town in its own right, so the city below provides the urban side of the trip and the resort provides the mountain.
Practicalities
Turin (TRN) is the nearest airport in our data, roughly 64 km away as the crow flies. No official resort website is on record.
Frequently asked questions about Pila
Yes. A cable car system connects Pila with Aosta, the nearest city, so you can stay in the city and ride up to the slopes. There is also a road link.
Very much so. Of its graded runs, 29 are red, against 4 blue and 4 black, which makes it an intermediate's mountain first and foremost.
The resort sits at 1,814 m, with the highest skiing at 2,700 m, giving around 900 m of vertical.
One cable car, two gondolas and eight chairlifts, plus five conveyors for beginners. Our data counts the 11 main lifts.
Wikipedia records a pipe zone and a slopestyle zone alongside the pistes.
Pila has 70 km of marked slopes: 11 km easy (blue), 51 km intermediate (red), 8 km expert (black), served by 11 ski lifts.
The skiing in Pila ranges from 1,800 m at the base to 2,700 m at the top — a vertical drop of 900 m.
The ski season in Pila typically runs from December to April. Exact opening dates vary by year and snow conditions.
Pila is better suited to confident skiers — only around 16% of the slopes are rated easy.
Pila has 8 km of expert (black) slopes — about 11% of the total.
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