Les Gets village guide: the commune, hamlets, heritage and services

• 1,227Resident population (INSEE 2023)
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• about 1,172 mVillage altitude
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• CC du Haut-Chablais (15 communes)Grouping of communes
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• 85.2% of dwellingsSecond homes (2023)
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Les Gets is more than a ski resort: it is a mountain commune that lives all year round, with its residents, its old quarter, its schools and its services. This section describes the village as it is, based on public sources checked on 9 November 2026.

A Haute-Savoie commune on the Col des Gets

The commune of Les Gets (INSEE code 74134, postcode 74260) has a resident population of 1,227 according to the 2023 INSEE census. Banatic, the French Interior Ministry’s database, gives a total legal population of 1,265, which includes people counted elsewhere. Population density is 40.9 people per km², over an area of about 30 km² (29.98 km² according to Wikipedia).

The village sits on the Col des Gets, on the Route des Grandes Alpes that runs from Thonon-les-Bains to Nice. Its altitude is given as about 1,172 m, the figure used by the official village and ski-front webcams; 1,200 m is also quoted as a rounded figure. The commune itself ranges from about 900 m to roughly 1,820 m.

Administratively, Les Gets belongs to the Thonon-les-Bains arrondissement and the Évian-les-Bains canton. It is a member of the Communauté de communes du Haut-Chablais, a grouping of 15 communes including Morzine, Montriond and Saint-Jean-d’Aulps, based in Le Biot. This body handles waste collection, among other things, and co-funds the regional coach lines.

One figure sums up the local economy: of the 4,306 dwellings counted in 2023, 85.2% are second or occasional homes, against 608 main residences. The number of people actually in the village changes dramatically between the quiet months and the school holidays.

How the village is laid out

The centre runs along the Rue du Centre and the Route du Front de Neige, home to the town hall (61 Route du Front de Neige) and the Maison des Gets, which houses the tourist office (89 Route du Front de Neige). Just above, the Vieux Village (old village) brings together the church, the mechanical music museum and the new media library on the Rue du Vieux Village.

Around it, a few areas are useful landmarks:

• Les Chavannes, at the foot of the main ski sector, described by the tourist office as the family-friendly part of the ski area, with an underground car park;
• Mont Chéry, the other ski slope, quieter and more demanding, served by its own gondola;
• Les Perrières, at the village entrance on the Taninges side, with a large free car park, a chairlift and the all-season toboggan run;
• the Lac des Écoles, the summer leisure area, which is also where the schools and the crèche are.

The town hall’s pages also mention many hamlets: Moudon, Les Mouilles, Le Chôt, Les Folliets, Gibannaz, Les Granges, Mont-Caly, Sommet des Chavannes and La Turche. No complete official list was found; Wikipedia adds others, such as Plan-Ferraz.

Heritage, culture and history

Les Gets has more heritage than its resort image suggests. The church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité, rebuilt in 1895, houses an automatic Aeolian organ from 1910 that is a listed historic monument. The hamlet of Moudon has a chapel recorded as early as the 15th century. On the sporting side, the resort’s first ski tow dates from 1936 or 1937 depending on the source, and the village hosted the mountain bike world championships in 2004 and 2022.

The best-known cultural venue is the mechanical music museum, opened in 1988 in the village’s oldest house. More recently, the Alta Lumina night trail, designed by the studio Moment Factory, has added an evening outing in the forest.

Services and local life

The village has a medical centre, a pharmacy, a post office counter at the town hall, a recycling centre and two schools, all open year round. A market is held on Thursday mornings at Le Marais. A new media library, in the former presbytery, is due to be inaugurated on 28 November 2026. The local calendar follows the seasons: village fêtes in summer, Christmas events, mountain bike World Cup rounds and a winter trail race.

To get around, the “Les Gets Bus” shuttles are free and serve the village and hamlets during the winter and summer seasons, according to the town hall. Car parks and shuttle routes are covered on the page about parking and shuttles.

What this section covers

The four pages below each look at one aspect of the village:

• The mechanical music museum: the collection (over 1,000 instruments according to the museum), its two buildings, the types of visit and what to check before you go.
• Alta Lumina, the night trail: a kilometre of illuminated forest near the Lac des Écoles, in winter and summer, with known dates and practical tips for families.
• Local services: healthcare, post office, tourist office, recycling, market, media library, schools and emergency numbers, in one table.
• History and heritage of Les Gets: the church and its organ, the chapels, the 1871 carousel, the early days of skiing and the recent mountain bike story.

How this guide differs from official websites

lesgets360.com is an independent guide. It is not the tourist office, the town hall or SOLEGETS, the lift company. It sells nothing and takes no bookings. Its job is to bring together information scattered across several websites, date it, and flag contradictions when sources disagree. For anything that changes often (opening times, prices, season dates), each page points to the official source to check before you set off: the commune’s website, lesgets-mairie.fr, and the tourist office’s, lesgets.com.

Morzine and the Portes du Soleil, for context

Morzine is the neighbouring commune. The two villages share the Les Gets-Morzine ski area, which is itself part of the Franco-Swiss Portes du Soleil area (12 resorts). In practice, you travel between them on the Y91 and Y92 coaches or along a shared cycle and footpath of about 1.6 km. For skiing, the Les Gets ski section covers the ski area and the links in detail.