The one region where arriving and skiing without a car is routine rather than exceptional. Rail reaches the valley floor and lifts often start in the village.
Where you can skip the car
3 bases in this region meet the no-car-needed standard: practical car-free arrival, walkable daily needs, and most of the page's ski areas reachable on published transit.
The only major ski region in the Alps where two of the principal villages have no road at all — Wengen and Mürren are car-free because nobody ever built one, which makes this the rare place where car-free is a fact of terrain rather than a parking policy.
Six separate mountains, four railway stations and a bus network that is free with your accommodation card, wrapped around a working municipality of eleven thousand people — the least attractive great ski destination in the Alps, and the one where a car is genuinely dead weight.
Two separate lift systems you can walk to, a four-minute cable car to a car-free station at 1,800 m that sits on the same commune, and a lift network that crosses into Switzerland — under a village base at roughly 1,000 m that loses its snow before anywhere else in the circuit.
A mainline SNCF terminus with a funicular running out of the back of the station into a ski resort — the one place in the French Alps where the honest advice is to sleep in the valley town and commute up.
Ten lift-served ski areas on published scheduled buses from one railway station, a funicular to a serious mountain leaving from the edge of the old town, and a working Austrian city underneath all of it — at the price of a timetable that decides when your ski day starts and ends.