Route des Grandes Alpes Motorcycle Tour France

Your Route des Grandes Alpes motorcycle tour begins in Lörrach: you make your own way there and check into your starting hotel by 6 pm. Riders travelling from the north can take the car train to Lörrach – we're happy to help you book it.

Your Alps motorcycle tour through France opens with a crossing of Switzerland, largely on the motorway. In Thonon-les-Bains you join the official Route des Grandes Alpes and follow it into the Beaufort area of France.

This stage of the Col du Galibier motorcycle tour takes in three legendary passes: the Col de l'Iseran (2,770 m), the Col du Mont Cenis (2,083 m), and the Col du Galibier (2,645 m), before you reach Briançon.

The final stage of the official Route des Grandes Alpes is one of the finest French Alpine passes motorcycle sections: the Col d'Izoard (2,360 m), Col de Vars (2,109 m), Col de la Cayolle (2,326 m) and the Col de Turini bring you to Sospel.

The official route ends in Menton on the Côte d'Azur, but your Grand Canyon du Verdon motorcycle tour continues: following the coast, you reach the 700-metre-deep gorge, one of the largest canyons in Europe.

Today's Verdon Gorge motorcycle tour loops around Castellane – or you can treat the day as a rest day, recovering from the previous stages and soaking up the scenery before continuing north again tomorrow morning.

Via Digne-les-Bains, this Provence motorcycle tour passes the Lac de Serre-Ponçon on smaller passes on the way to Embrun – a quieter day with wonderful views after the big climbs of the previous days.

This on-road motorcycle tour of France now heads for home: winding country roads lead you back toward Lake Geneva, with lovely views of the mountains you conquered together over the past few days of riding.

This Alpine crossing by motorcycle draws to a close: the return stage takes you from Gex back to your starting hotel in Lörrach, where the whole group rounds off the final evening together over dinner and stories.

After breakfast, your guided motorcycle tour of France comes to an end: participants make their own way home, taking countless kilometres, Alpine passes, and curves from this Route des Grandes Alpes motorcycle tour with them.