MTG1 08 Roundtrip Southern Vercors Drome Barbieres Die Barbieres
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RouteXpert René Plücken (MRA Master)
Last edit: 29-05-2021
Route Summary
I made this route based on the route description made by Bert Loorbach in the Motortourgids part 1 France, this is route 8 "the southern Vercors".
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Duration
6h 16m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
170.80 km
Countries
RP8 Col de la Croix
RouteXpert Review
This route from the Motorbike guide France part 1 is a tour in the southern part of Vercors. Bert Loorbach, the writer, is an enthusiastic motorcyclist himself and lived in France for a year and a half. During that time he devoted himself to mapping the unknown and beautiful roads of France especially for motorcyclists.
Hotels, campsites, places of interest, parking spaces and restaurants are listed as POIs.
Barbières is a very small village with only a campsite in the immediate vicinity, but a wonderful point to start this tour through the southern part of Vercors. This motor-friendly site has a Roman atmosphere. The roads are very winding and there are many small parking places along the way to stop and enjoy the panoramas.
The route contains several mountain passes and therefore has the necessary ascents and descents, there are also some spicy hairpin bends.
There is a small resistance museum in the village of Vassieux-en-Vercors.
The next mountain pass is the Col du Rousset (RP6), which marks the climate line between the northern and southern Alps. After this climb we drive down great curves to the town of Die (RP8), where we stop for lunch in one of the many restaurants of this 70s style village.
After lunch we drive along the Drôme river to Sainte Croix, you can stop at RP10 to take a nice picture of the river. We drive on the narrow D129 and D172, Col de la Croix with its nice hairpin bends further towards Beaufort-sur-Gervanne.
We continue the ride on the D70, halfway at the T-junction we take the D578 to view the Chute de la Druise (RP14) waterfall. This waterfall is the best way to view it from below, for that you have to walk. We drive further up to take a short break at Hotel restaurant Le Moulin de la Pipe (RP15).
After the break we drive back down and enter the Col de Bacchus, just before La Vacherie we turn to the D68 and descend over the Col de Limouches, again a delightful steering road with the necessary hairpins and panoramas. Via Peyrus we drive back to Barbières.
This route is a nice short tour with many beautiful mountain passes, a succession of curves through beautiful surroundings. A short trip on the route to view the waterfall is certainly worth it. I rate this route with 5 stars.
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RP6 Col du Rousset
RP18 Col de Limouches
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