Cycling and E-bike Touring Guide - Vercors | Glénat (French)

Six cycle and e-bike tours exploring the Vercors.

These trips of two to eight days offer a combined 20 to 25 days discovering the park's heritage and nature. Cycle touring is an environmentally responsible way to travel. Electric assistance makes it accessible to more people, whatever the terrain, without requiring an experienced, highly trained cyclist. Travellers can enjoy the places along the way at their own pace, close to nature.

Florent Debicki shares his love of the Vercors, a lively and distinctive area rich in heritage and spectacular scenery. He has devised six original point-to-point or circular itineraries with discovery and safety in mind. The selected small roads have as little traffic as possible, with occasional compacted surfaces or tracks suitable for hybrid bikes and e-bikes.

Stages of 40 to 50 km, or three to four hours of leisurely riding, leave time for visits and activities en route or at the destination. Many can also be ridden as individual day trips.

The tours

• Grand Tour of the Vercors: 311 km, six to eight days. Grenoble railway station, Port de Saint-Gervais, Malleval, Pont-en-Royans, Saint-Jean-en-Royans, Ambel, Le Pêcher du Bas, Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Die, Châtillon-en-Diois, Chichilianne, Monestier-de-Clermont, Saint-Barthélemy, Grenoble railway station.
• Wild long-distance crossing: 172 km, four days. Grenoble railway station, Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte via the former tramway, Lans-en-Vercors, Bois Barbu Nordic centre, Pré Grandu, Die, Châtillon-en-Diois, Lus-la-Croix-Haute railway station.
• Crest - Grenoble crossing through the upper Vercors: 160 km, three to four days. Crest, La Chapelle-en-Vercors, Lans-en-Vercors, Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte, Grenoble railway station.
• Spiritual escapes in Royans: 104 km, two days. Saint-Hilaire/Saint-Nazaire railway station, Cognin-les-Gorges, Pont-en-Royans, Col de la Machine, Saint-Hilaire/Saint-Nazaire railway station.
• Between the Drôme and the summits: 164 km, three to four days. Crest, Léoncel, Vassieux, Die, Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Crest.
• Major passes between Veymont and Trièves: 124 km, two to three days. Gresse-en-Vercors, Col du Fau, Mens, Clelles railway station, Gresse-en-Vercors.