Located in the heart of the vast Portes du Soleil, the most celebrated MTB playground in Europe, Morzine offers lift access to world-class singletrack, including the legendary Pleney downhill course that has shaped generations of gravity riders.
Superb riding, part of the vast Portes du Soleil network.
The number of riders means trails get a hammering.
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Plan Your Trip
Everything you need to book your Morzine mountain biking trip — bike-friendly accommodation, the gear to pack, how to get there, and activities to book.
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Office de Tourisme Morzine
Place du Baraty
74110 Morzine
France
Phone: +33 (0)4 50 74 72 72
Web: www.morzine-avoriaz.com
Email: info@morzine-avoriaz.com
Note: the summer Multi Pass (pedestrian lift access plus 70+ activities across the 12 resorts) does not cover bikes on the lifts. To ride the bikepark and lap the descents you need the separate Portes du Soleil MTB lift pass.
Morzine Accommodation
There are loads of accommodation options in Morzine including hotels, guest houses (chambres d’hotes), rental apartments and chalets, but to maximise your time on the mountain it’s hard to beat staying in a place run by riders for riders. We’ve scoured the resort to find the best mtb-friendly options there are with ride-in-ride-out locations, secure bike storage and in some cases bike wash and tools. Here’s some recommended bike-friendly accommodation in Morzine:
Use the live map below to compare prices and find places to stay in Morzine, from hotels near the lifts to self-catered apartments and chalets.
Morzine Guide
Morzine sits dead in the centre of the Portes du Soleil, the largest linked bike area in Europe: around 650 km of waymarked trails, one of the biggest networks on the continent, spread across 12 resorts and two countries on a single lift pass. That makes the village a natural access point for the whole network — and a brilliant base in its own right, with a party atmosphere through the summer and some of the best trails, restaurants and nightlife of any French resort.
Whatever else you pack for Morzine, make sure your travel insurance covers mountain biking — see our travel insurance guide for what to check before you go.
From the village you ride two home sectors that face each other across the valley. Le Pléney is the steep, wooded downhill hill straight above town, home to 13 marked downhill trails and the famous black “Mainline”. Super Morzine climbs the other side toward the Avoriaz plateau, where the trails turn into long, machine-built flow and the gentlest riding in the area. Pléney is where you go to get worked. Super Morzine is where you build speed and confidence.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a rookie rider or an experienced gravity junkie — with trails for downhill, XC, enduro and electric biking, Morzine offers an unforgettable ride for all levels. Here’s the lowdown on the riding, trails and facilities.
The Riding in Morzine
Trails are graded like a ski map: green, blue, red and black. Plan your week around the two home sectors and the wider network rather than ticking off individual runs, and Morzine opens up fast. You can warm up on Super Morzine flow in the morning, lap Pléney in the afternoon, and point-to-point over to Les Gets or Châtel whenever you fancy a bigger day.
Beginner
Start on Super Morzine, not Pléney. Take the Super Morzine gondola out of the village and you reach the kindest terrain in the resort: smooth, machine-built green and blue flow with sweeping berms and tabletop jumps you roll until you’re ready to pop them. The Seraussaix chairlift serves a paired green and blue run that’s the ideal first proper descent — short laps, no surprises, all about carrying speed cleanly. Over on the Avoriaz plateau there’s a dedicated learner area of small banked turns and gentle bumps for getting children rolling, and the green trails up here let you build before you step up to a blue on the same lift.
Pléney is a different animal — steep and wooded, with a beginners’ practice area at the top of the gondola but little genuinely easy descending below it. Get your confidence on Super Morzine first. If you’re brand new, book a morning or two with a local school and spend the rest of the day lapping what you’ve drilled.
Intermediate
This is where Morzine comes alive. Pléney is stacked with blue and red flow: Twisty (Blue 20) is the headline run, a long blue dropping through endless berms and rollers that teaches you to let go of the brakes. Shorter, faster blue laps come off the same gondola, and Super 8 (Red 22) is the red to graduate onto when the blues stop scaring you — steeper, jumpier, a proper step up without black-grade consequences.
When you want distance over laps, drop the Retour Morzine–Les Gets liaison, a 6.5 km blue losing around 630 m of woodland and berms that drops you straight into the Les Gets side of the network. That’s the gateway run for turning a park day into a real Portes du Soleil point-to-point — link the two valleys, refuel in Les Gets, and ride home on the lifts.
Advanced
Pléney is the proving ground. The Mainline (23) is the classic: a steep, rooty, raw woodland downhill that rides nothing like the buffed flow on Super Morzine, and it ran World Cup races for years. New for 2026, Pléney adds three black technical singletracks — Woodride (25) plus the short, sharp Legal 1.0 (26) and Legal 2.0 (27) — gnarly, off-piste-feeling lines for riders who want roots and chutes over manicured berms.
When you want the network’s bigger hits, the Portes du Soleil delivers them a lift or two away: Hattock on the Avoriaz side is a fast, rooty black DH, and the Les Gets links open up expert lines like Dans le Gaz and the freeride jumps of the Gets Airline. Treat all of these as ride-them-when-you’re-ready trails. The Pléney blacks in particular punish hesitation, so earn them by sessioning the reds first.
eMTB
Morzine is built for e-bikes, with around 90 km of enduro trails across the area that suit modern e-MTBs and a network designed to be ridden between sectors rather than just lapped on one lift. An e-bike rewrites the geography: instead of queuing for the gondola, you self-shuttle between Pléney and Super Morzine, climb out to Montriond and the Lindarets bowl under your own power, and ride the quiet enduro singletrack that pedal riders skip. The big point-to-point loops toward Avoriaz and Châtel become a comfortable day rather than an epic. Village hire shops stock current e-MTBs, so you don’t need to bring your own — and the area’s lifts and trails are e-bike friendly throughout.
The Trails & Facilities for Mountain Bikers
Beyond the graded park lines, the Morzine sectors and the wider Portes du Soleil pack in a huge spread of marked trails and rider facilities. Here’s what you’ll find on the mountain:
- Ride 13 marked downhill trails on the home hill at Le Pléney, from the blue Cap Canaveral flow to the black Mainline.
- Plug into around 650 km of waymarked trails across the Portes du Soleil — one of the biggest networks in Europe — on a single lift pass.
- Lap two home sectors from the village: Le Pléney for steep, wooded downhill and Super Morzine for long machine-built flow.
- Ride around 90 km of enduro trails across the area, ideal for modern e-MTBs and big point-to-point days.
- Link the valleys on the 6.5 km Retour Morzine–Les Gets liaison, the gateway run for a full Portes du Soleil point-to-point.
The facilities are just as comprehensive, from learner zones to bike washes:
- A dedicated beginners’ practice area at the top of the Pléney gondola, plus a learner zone of small banked turns on the Avoriaz plateau for getting kids rolling.
- Two main gondolas — Le Pléney and Super Morzine — sitting only a couple of hundred metres apart in the centre of town.
- e-MTB charging and an e-bike-friendly network so range anxiety never ends your day early.
- Bike washes and a dense cluster of hire and repair shops a few steps from the lifts.
Bike Hire & Repairs
You don’t need to box up your own bike to ride Morzine well. The village runs one of the densest clusters of hire and repair shops in the Alps, stocking everything from hardtails to full downhill rigs, with body armour usually included and bikes serviced overnight.
- La Pédalerie Morzine — best for flexible hire close to the lift, with day, weekend and week rentals plus servicing. (151 Rte du Téléphérique, 74110 Morzine.)
- Torico — best for repairs and suspension servicing, a specialist for fork and shock work across downhill, enduro and e-bikes. (1098 Rte des Bois Venants, 74110 Morzine.)
- Action Sport — best for grabbing a rental and rolling out, hiring across the range with in-house service. (543 Av. de Joux Plane, 74110 Morzine.)
- Pleney Sports — best for hassle-free hire and service a few steps from the Pléney lift. (107 Taille de Mas du Pleney, 74110 Morzine.)
Food, Après & Events
You ride hard in Morzine, so you eat well. The town leans Savoyard, which is exactly what you want after a day on the brakes: molten cheese, cured meats and carbs with no apology — plus enough pizza and bistro cooking to break the fondue streak.
For the classic refuel, La Grange is the move: a fairy-lit wooden chalet doing generous traditional Savoyard cooking with a whole section of the menu given over to fondue. When you can’t face more cheese, Gusto e basta! serves tasty, great-value Italian a short walk from the slopes. For a smarter dinner, L’Étale is a long-standing Morzine table for traditional French alpine fare just off the main drag.
For après with the lifts still spinning, Le Tremplin at the bottom of the Pléney is the obvious landing spot off the last descent — a loud, busy bar that keeps going indoors after the outdoor crowd thins. Bar Robinson is the cult choice: one beer (Mutzig), no music policy, just the day’s stories told loudly — the local Mutzigs pack a punch after a day of high-altitude exertion. For live music, The Cavern programmes acts most nights and is the place to end up when you’ve got energy left.
Addresses: La Grange, 60 Chem. de la Coutettaz; Gusto e basta!, 10 Chem. des Moulins; L’Étale, 80 Taille de Mas du Pleney — all 74110 Morzine.
Pass’Portes du Soleil MTB 2026
The big date is the Pass’Portes du Soleil MTB on 26–28 June 2026 — the area’s flagship mass-participation ride and a brilliant way to see the whole network in a day. You pick one of the three days and one of eight resort start points (Morzine among them) and ride a roughly 89 km loop using 11 lifts, with around 1,000 m of climbing, 6,000 m of descent and six feed stops along the way. Entry is €79 plus a €3 fee, and the accompanying expo lands in Avoriaz for 2026. Book early — it sells out, and Morzine fills up around it. For quieter, better-value riding, aim for early-to-mid June before the event or the back end of August into September.
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The Morzine bike park runs from roughly 12 June to 13 September 2026, with a pre-opening weekend in early June. The full Portes du Soleil lift network is open from late June to the end of August, with some lifts running into mid-September. Check current dates before you book.
A one-day adult pass is around €39 (child €29) and a 7-day pass about €232, plus a one-off €3 smart card. Under-5s ride free. If you only want a few runs, single Pléney lift rides cost about €8.90 each, with multi-trip tickets available.
You want the full Portes du Soleil MTB pass, which lets you carry your bike on the lifts across the whole area. The cheaper €15 Multi Pass does NOT allow bikes on the lifts — it covers pedestrians and other activities — so don’t buy it by mistake.
Morzine is best known for steep, demanding downhill, so it isn’t the obvious first stop. There are green and blue runs and a skills area on the Pléney, but beginners and families are usually happier basing in or day-tripping to neighbouring Les Gets, minutes away on the same lift pass.
Bring a capable bike: a 150mm-travel enduro bike is the sensible minimum, ideally on dual-ply downhill tyres, and full downhill bikes are right at home. The long, rough descents punish brakes and tyres, so arrive with everything fresh and in good working order.
Geneva is the nearest airport, about 1 hour 15 to 20 minutes away. Shared transfers start around £35 per person and most carry bikes for a small fee. Driving from the UK takes roughly 8 to 10 hours from Calais, with about €70 of tolls each way.
Yes — several shops rent quality enduro and downhill bikes, with adult hire roughly €16 to €80 a day depending on the bike and kids’ bikes around €15. E-bikes are widely available too. Book ahead in peak season (mid-July to mid-August), when the best bikes sell out.
Yes. You can hire eMTBs in resort, and the Portes du Soleil has a dedicated e-bike network of around 43 marked routes covering some 350km, so you can explore under power. E-bikes are allowed on the bike-carrying lifts with the standard MTB pass.
Both share the same lift pass and are linked, so ride both. Morzine is the bigger hub with steeper, more natural downhill and the best après; Les Gets is flowier and jumpier and friendlier for families and progression. Most riders base in one and visit the other.
Late June and late August into early September are the sweet spots — quieter trails, settled weather and lower prices. Mid-July to mid-August is peak: hottest, busiest and prone to afternoon storms. It’s a summer-only resort, so there’s no riding outside roughly mid-June to mid-September.
A long weekend of 3 to 4 days is enough for a taste of the Pléney and Super Morzine. To explore the wider Portes du Soleil — Les Gets, Châtel, Avoriaz and the Swiss side — give yourself 5 to 7 days. There’s easily a week of riding without repeating a trail.
Yes — check your policy explicitly covers mountain biking and downhill riding, as many standard policies exclude them. Some Portes du Soleil trails cross into Switzerland, so make sure your cover isn’t EU-only. It’s cheap protection against a very expensive mountain rescue.
Please leave a comment below if you need specific advice for your mountain biking holiday to Morzine, or if you have any recommendations to help us improve this guide. Happy holidays!
