Val-d'Illiez: Les Crosets (Portes du Soleil)
Les Crosets is best known within Valais for being a Swiss access point to the cross-border Portes du Soleil ski area. Set above the Val d’Illiez valley, the resort occupies alpine slopes beneath the Dents du Midi massif, with lifts connecting it to Champéry and French resorts beyond the frontier. Its built form remains compact: timber chalets, mountain restaurants and ski infrastructure stand among grazing land rather than a dense townscape. The wider commune of Val-d’Illiez also includes the thermal baths at Les Bains de Val-d’Illiez, an established part of the valley’s visitor economy. Les Crosets is a practical mountain base for access to an extensive international ski network and high-country walks.
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The Vièze river defines the setting of Val-d’Illiez — it runs through a steep Alpine valley beneath the Dents du Midi, linking the village with meadows, forests and mountain routes. In the Chablais area of Valais, the municipality includes the high-altitude localities of Les Crosets and Champoussin, both part of the Portes du Soleil ski area. Val-d’Illiez is also associated with thermal baths supplied by naturally warm mineral water, giving the valley a year-round identity beyond snow sports. The road follows the valley from Monthey towards the French border. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Val-d’Illiez and the Valais Alps.
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Valais combines high-alpine terrain with vineyard-lined valley life in a way that reflects its position between the Rhône Valley and the Pennine Alps. These coordinates lie in the Val d’Anniviers, a side valley where the Navizence flows north towards the Rhône and long-settled communities occupy slopes beneath high peaks. Across the canton, mountain pastures, glaciers and celebrated summits shape daily life as much as the broad, productive valley floor. Valais is also Switzerland’s leading wine-producing canton, and its historic bisses—open irrigation channels—show how generations adapted dry sunny slopes for cultivation. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Valais.
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