Top 5 resorts for late season skiing

Article updated every 6 months. Last updated: 14th December 2007
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There's still some snow around the later into the year you go.

Here's our top five list of resorts best for late season skiing...

Are, Sweden

The venue for last year's Alpine skiing World Championships, Are is 300 miles north-west of Stockholm. Are is ideal for a late season skiing holiday as the season lasts here, officially, until May 1. But in most seasons it could run a lot longer than that.

Cervinia, Italy

Skiing in Cervinia's high and snowy bowl can be hard work in mid-winter - especially when an icy gale is blowing up the valley. Come spring, it's a different story: the snow's still in great nick, and there are a number of top-notch restaurants to relax in when the sun comes out.

Tignes, France

The Grande Motte glacier is your insurance policy - along with the cold, north-facing pistes that lead down from it. But the fact is almost all the skiing in Tignes is above 2000m, and some of it never sees the sun: if there's good skiing anywhere in the western Alps, you'll find it here.

Val d'Isere, France

Tignes' neighbour Val d'Isère is a touch lower than Tignes, but shares the same lift system, and is full of life when other ski resorts are winding down for the summer - especially at the Folie Douce on the slopes above La Daille, where bands regularly play on the roof.

Val Thorens, France

Set at 2300m, Val Thorens is the highest ski resort in the Alps. It doesn't have the highest pistes (go to the Klein Matterhon in Zermatt for that), but it does have a great range of pistes, and three lifts which will take you to a very snowsure 3100m. Unlike Zermatt, in Val Thorens you'll also be able to ski back down to the village each evening, too.

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