Variants

On the Route des Grandes Alpes®, there are many ways to plot your route and plan your itinerary.

The variants, while sometimes allowing you to bypass certain passes that are impassable at the start of the season, are above all an opportunity to discover new territories and new landscapes. Route des Grandes Alpes® offers you six of them, some with interesting extensions. The variants are Route des Grandes Alpes® in augmented reality: follow us, from north to south...

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Alternative 2: Bourg-Saint-Maurice - Moutiers - La Léchère-les-Bains - Saint-François-Longchamps - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne - Valloire

A route of just over 130 km on the Route des Grandes Alpes®, with two very serious cols on the menu. Col de la Madeleine (1993 m), between the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys. Col du Télégraphe (1566 m), above Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne and just a few kilometers from Valloire, the first step on the road to Galibier!
For those with strong calves, ready to do anything to add to their record of achievements, we recommend extending from Moutiers to the Col de la Loze (2304 m). This high-altitude green route, between Méribel and Courchevel, was one of the most spectacular finishes of the 2020 Tour de France.

Variant no. 4: Val-Cenis - Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne - Saint-Jean-d'Arves - Bourg-d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez - La Grave - Briançon

199 km of fun! Route des Grandes Alpes® takes you down the Maurienne, then up to Saint-Jean-d'Arves, before climbing the Col de la Croix de Fer (2064 m). One more glance at the emblematic silhouette of the Aiguilles d'Arves and you're on your way down to Bourg-d'Oisans, via the Grand'Maison and Verney dams. Watch out, it's (almost) only just begun! Soon, 21 twists and turns that have gone down in Tour de France legend will take you to l'Alpe d'Huez (1860 m). Passing through this major resort, then over the Col de Sarenne (1999 m), you'll avoid the dangerous and tricky stretch of road (numerous tunnels) between Bourg-d'Oisans and Lac du Chambon. Then there's the Col du Lautaret (2057 m), where the wide Guisane valley road takes you all the way to Briançon, passing through the villages of Serre-Chevalier.