Saint-Jean-d'Aulps

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Coordinates: 46°14′06″N 6°39′23″E / 46.235, 6.65638

Administration
Commune of Saint-Jean-d'Aulps
Location

Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement	Thonon-les-Bains
Canton	Le Biot
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes de la Vallée d'Aulps
Statistics
Elevation	734 m–2,240 m (avg. 801 m)
Land area^¹	40.19 km²
Population^² (1999)	1,022
- Density	25.40/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	74238/ 74430
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Jean-d'Aulps is a small town and commune in the Haute-Savoie department of France, a 5 minute drive from Morzine.

There are roughly 1,000 inhabitants, a handful of shops, including three bars and a couple of restaurants. There is a sizeable English expatriate population for many of whom the primary occupation is tourism.

[edit] Ski

The skiing area in Saint-Jean-d'Aulps is situated above the town and is called Espace Roc d'Enfer, or La Grande Terche. The skiing area covered by the larger Portes du Soleil lift pass which includes 14 resorts in France and Switzerland. The ski area does not link directly to the other Porte du Soleil stations however.

The local ski area , La Grande Terche, is around 8 minutes from the town centre by car. Although the area is limited in terms of lifts and marked pistes, the pistes offer a good variety of varied skiing and in particular a large amount off off piste terrain. This tends to remain unskiied days after the larger resorts are tracked out. At the base of the gondola lift there are a couple of restaurants and bars and a ski hire shop.