MTG2 12 Roundtrip French Alpes Veynes Devoluy Gap Veynes
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RouteXpert René Plücken (MRA Master)
Last edit: 12-02-2021
Route Summary
That France is one of the most beautiful and best touring countries is beyond doubt. It offers an incredibly varied landscape with good roads and pleasant climate. It is not for nothing that you see so many motorcyclists there. My previous series of routes in France were based on the route descriptions from the Motortourgids France part 1 made by Bert Loorbach.
This route comes from Motortourgids France part 2 and the original name is "The Alps Directions 1: Dévoluy".
In Motorbike guide France part 2 a difference has been made between approach routes and trips in a certain area. The approach routes can also be used in combination with the routes from Motortourgids France part 1
The routes are sometimes slightly adjusted based on the tips that Bert Loorbach gives in his description, or because of a different place to spend the night, or to achieve the minimum length of 2 hours for the MRA Library. For each route there is a more detailed description in the review, including options to stay overnight or places of interest en route, which are also indicated with a POI and if possible with a short description
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Duration
3h 13m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
173.66 km
Countries
RP10 Dévoluy
RouteXpert Review
The Alps have to appeal to almost every motorcyclist. High passes, deep valleys, mountain lakes, glaciers and rugged peaks. Among these peaks is the highest in Europe: the Mont Blanc. All this beauty is connected to mountain roads of usually very good quality and must therefore yield a motorcycle cocktail to write home about. So with this the first route of a series of six from the Motorbike Guide part 2. A nice trip to send a nice couple of hours from one Col to the other.
We leave from Camping Les Rives du Lac in Veynes to Gap to get a taste of the Alps. From Gap the original route has been supplemented with a wonderfully curvy part back to the campsite. The route has therefore been changed into a tour through the Dévoluy area.
Dévoluy is a small massif that actually belongs to the pre-Alps but already has peaks of more than 2500 meters. It is characterized by abandonment, this feeling is further enhanced if you drive through this area between twelve and two hours. Along the way real mountains, rugged rocks, lots of water and forest.
I also started a small tour south of Veynes because we want to drive through Dévoluy around noon with a lunch in the village of St. Disdier (RP9) at hotel restaurant “La Neyrette”. Here you can enjoy a good lunch on a terrace in the sun, with the mountains around you. If you order trout, you'll see the cook run outside a little later and catch one in the stream nearby. Grandiose.
Back to the route, we start at Camping Les Rives du Lac south of Veynes and we drive over a number of passes that are also used in Rally's such as Col de la Bachassette (RP2) and Col la Faye (RP3) which are even in the Rally the Monte Carlo has been used, this one is sure to be enjoyed. At Monêtier-Allemont take a short stretch of the D1085, after about 2.5 km we turn left, cross the canal and continue the drive on another beautiful winding D20 containing the Col d'Espréaux (RP6), which is also part of a rally course and the tour de France. On the D994 we turn left just before Montmaur and take the D937 with the simple Col du Festre through the rolling countryside, towards St. Disdier (RP11), where we stop for lunch.
After lunch we drive further north through tall pine trees towards Lac de Sautet, which is shining blue in the summer sun. You will pass the dam (RP12) and you will drive into Corps (RP13) a little later, a nice town with lots of cozy terraces so if you want to take a break you can. We are now driving on the famous N85 or the "Route Napoléon" (RP15). Napoléon used this route in the opposite direction when he returned from Elba in 1815 and headed north. This stretch of 40 kilometers is a wonderful ribbon of asphalt with the Col de Bayard (RP16) as a dessert and a steep descent to Gap (RP17), where the original end point of the route is described in the Motorbike Guide part 2. We take here the D994 back to the Camping.
A beautiful day with beautiful roads and beautiful nature, along the way not many details to stop for, but I still appreciate this route with 4 **** stars.
RP12 Dam and Lake du Sautet
RP6 Col d'Espréaux
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