Calais to Lake Geneva for the Route des Grandes Alpes

Main roads

From the map

Longest gap between fuel

30 miles

Fuel stations near the line

153

Curvature

126 ° a mile

Campsites within 2 km

109

• The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 312 to mile 342. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
• The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 374 to mile 394, at 345 degrees of turning a mile.
• Passes: Col du Ballon d'Alsace (1,165 m, mile 382), Col de la Faucille (1,323 m, mile 534).
• Countries: France, Switzerland.
• 60 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.
• More routes from this port.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

• The Route des Grandes Alpes starts in Thonon-les-Bains. Our route page for it picks up from there.
• The Ballon d'Alsace and the Col de la Faucille can close in winter. Check before you go.
• The line keeps off motorways and toll roads by design.

On the way

1. Calais
2. Arras
3. Cambrai
4. Guise
5. Rethel
6. Sainte-Menehould
7. Bar-le-Duc
8. Neufchateau
9. Vittel
10. Plombieres-les-Bains
11. Ballon d'Alsace
12. Belfort
13. Saint-Hippolyte
14. Maiche
15. Morteau
16. Mouthe
17. Les Rousses
18. Col de la Faucille
19. Thonon-les-Bains

Split it into days

Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.

This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.