Hiking - Crossing from Lautaret to Alpe de Villar

A trail that will delight fans of wide open spaces, pastoral farming and thrills on the schist paths of Les Crevasses.

Famous for regularly featuring in the Tour de France, the Col du Lautaret is also the starting point for some of the best hiking trails. The crossing to Alpe de Villar d'Arène along the vertiginous path of Les Crevasses is a very pleasant one in dry weather. The landscapes are wide-open and impressive, and deeply marked by the high summits, by pastoral farming and agricultural terraces that were honed out of the slopes around the villages of La Grave and Villar d'Arène.

The way to the Crevasses path is across uneven schist slopes. Care needs to be taken in this slippery terrain, especially in wet weather.