Why you should experience La Tzoumaz in Verbier
La Tzoumaz (La Tzoumaz Village) is Verbier’s quieter echo, a sunlit perch on the northern slope of the valley where the Alps feel personal again.
Tucked at 1,500 meters above the Rhône, this small resort blends everything you love about mountain life, open air, space, and stillness, without the rush that usually comes with altitude. The name itself comes from the old Valais patois tzoumer, meaning “to take a break,” and that’s exactly what the place invites you to do. You wake to the sound of river water and wind through pine, not traffic or chatter. The view stretches across the Rhône Valley toward Crans-Montana and the Bernese Alps, the kind of panorama that makes time lose its grip. When snow falls, it’s soft and steady, muffling the village into silence; when summer comes, everything turns green and alive, trails threading through pastures dotted with wildflowers. There’s no need to chase anything here, La Tzoumaz moves at the pace of breath.
What you didn’t know about La Tzoumaz.
La Tzoumaz may be part of the 4 Vallées, but it holds its own identity, older, simpler, and shaped by endurance.
The first settlers came for the sun: this northern face catches light early and holds it late, making it one of the region’s most livable alpine slopes. For centuries, families here lived from the land, haymaking, cheesemaking, timber, long before lifts carried visitors upward. The village began transforming in the 1950s, when the first gondola connected it to Savoleyres and Verbier, creating a backdoor into one of Europe’s greatest ski domains. Yet La Tzoumaz never let go of its roots. Many of its chalets are still family-built, roofed in rough slate and lined with old tools that tell their own quiet stories. Few travelers realize that the resort is also home to Switzerland’s longest toboggan run, a 10-kilometer descent from Savoleyres to the valley floor, or that its name once appeared on maps simply as Mayens-de-Riddes, meaning “the mountain pastures of Riddes.” Beneath the upgrades and fiber internet, it’s still that, a lived-in mountain village that remembers what life here used to be: work, warmth, and weather. And it wears that memory beautifully.
How to fold La Tzoumaz into your trip.
La Tzoumaz is where you go when you want Verbier’s landscape without its noise, a base for exploration that feels both connected and self-contained.
You can reach it directly from Riddes by a winding 13-kilometer mountain road or by lift from Verbier over the Savoleyres ridge. In winter, start your day early with coffee on a balcony before skiing straight into the 4 Vallées network, wide, gentle pistes perfect for long, rhythmic runs, and tree-lined descents that glow gold in the afternoon sun. When the day ends, skip the rush to après and walk instead, the village paths are quiet, the air sharp with pine and chimney smoke. In summer, lace up for the Bisse de Saxon or the panoramic trail to Croix-de-Cœur; both leave right from the edge of the village and offer views that stretch past imagination. Families love the rhythm here, children riding bikes through open lanes, neighbors stopping to talk mid-walk, no one in a hurry to be anywhere else. Stay a few nights longer than planned. By the third morning, you’ll understand that La Tzoumaz isn’t about arrival or departure, it’s about dwelling. The kind of place where silence feels full, where the mountain finally speaks softly enough for you to listen.
Hear it from the Foresyte community.
“Up here, everything feels louder and quieter at the same time. You end up staring at the horizon like it’s got answers you didn’t know you were looking for.”
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