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Route des Grandes Alpes
444 km · 7 stops · 5 days

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Answer five questions about dates, pace, vehicle and interests. Scout picks the stops, spaces them into days and finds somewhere to sleep each night.

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Editor's picks

Places worth the detour

The star icons on the map. Every one was chosen by an editor and is worth leaving the motorway for.

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Oddities

Gemini Giant

A 30-foot fiberglass spaceman holding a rocket, one of the best-loved "muffler men" on the old highway.

Wilmington, IL
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Views

Seven Mile Bridge

Almost seven miles of open water on the Overseas Highway. The old bridge alongside is partly open to walkers.

Marathon, FL
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Views

Fonts Point

A rim above the eroded Borrego Badlands, spectacular at sunrise and sunset. The four-mile access road is…

Borrego Springs, CA
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Oddities

Crater of Diamonds State Park

A plowed field on an old volcanic pipe where anyone can dig for diamonds and keep what they find. Go after…

Murfreesboro, AR
Editor's pick
Views

Glade Creek Grist Mill, Babcock State Park

A working reconstructed grist mill over a rocky creek, one of the most photographed spots in West Virginia,…

Clifftop, WV
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Views

Col du Galibier

2,642 m on the Route des Grandes Alpes and a Tour de France classic. Usually open June to October.

Briançon, France
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Views

Bonifacio cliffs

An old town perched on white limestone cliffs that hang over the sea. Walk the cliff path at sunset.

Bonifacio, France
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Nature

Lago di Tovel

A clear mountain lake under the Brenta walls that used to turn red with algae until the 1960s. A flat path…

Ville d’Anaunia, Italy
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History

Fenestrelle Fort

The largest Alpine fortress in Europe, its walls climbing the mountainside for three kilometres. Guided…

Fenestrelle, Italy
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Nature

Courant d’Huchet

A small river that winds from the Lac de Léon to the ocean through a jungle of cypress and ferns.…

Léon, France
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Nature

Sa Calobra

A cove at the mouth of the Torrent de Pareis gorge, reached by a famous road of hairpins that loops under…

Escorca, Spain
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Nature

Étang de la Gruère

A dark peat-bog lake ringed by spruce and birch, with a path around it of about an hour. Keep to the trail:…

Saignelégier, Switzerland
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