Gondola · Saint-Hilaire, France
Essarts
Essarts is a gondola near Saint-Hilaire, France. It climbs 447 m over 1.42 km, from 904 m to 1,351 m above sea level. Between its 13 pylons, the cable runs up to about 41 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
21/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Essarts is scarier than 21% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 171 of 226 in France.
- Highest above the ground: about 41 m, as high as a 14-storey building, 195 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 191 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 21°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Essarts is near Saint-Hilaire, France, at 904 m above sea level (45.34444° N, 5.81688° E). From there it runs 1.42 km up to the top station at 1,351 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,500 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 6 people
Nearby lines
- Bastille cable car · 18.4 km away · rises 260 m
- La Croix gondola · 25.0 km away · rises 583 m
- Enversin gondola · 28.9 km away · rises 112 m
- Vaujany-Villette gondola · 28.9 km away · rises 60 m
- Villette-Montfrais gondola · 29.3 km away · rises 369 m
- Vaujany-Alpette cable car · 29.9 km away · rises 810 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: RGE ALTI © IGN. Data as of 2026-10-31.