Cable car · Les Houches, France
Bellevue
Bellevue is a cable car near Les Houches, France. It climbs 803 m over 1.89 km, from 996 m to 1,798 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 98 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
84/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Bellevue is scarier than 84% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 33 of 226 in France.
- Highest above the ground: about 98 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 1.31 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.10 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 23°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 961 m of the 1.89 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Bellevue is near Les Houches, France, at 996 m above sea level (45.88960° N, 6.78887° E). From there it runs 1.89 km up to the top station at 1,798 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 500 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 37 people
Nearby lines
- Prarion gondola · 1.6 km away · rises 831 m
- Ascenseur des Thermes funicular · 6.1 km away · rises 163 m
- Le Valléen gondola · 6.5 km away · rises 220 m
- Brévent cable car · 7.5 km away · rises 475 m
- Planpraz gondola · 7.8 km away · rises 925 m
- TPH Plan de l'Aiguille cable car · 7.9 km away · rises 1,271 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: RGE ALTI © IGN. Data as of 2026-10-31.