Fees/Permits
As always with National or Regional Parks in France, there are no entrance fees, and in fact the entrance itself will not be easily located along the road. Only a small signpost generally marks it.
By Train/Plane
The largest train stations existing around Vercors are Valence TGV, Downtown Valence Valence Ville and Grenoble.
In Valence TGV comes from Lyon, Lille, Paris, Montpellier, Nantes and Marseille every days. In certain periods, there are Thalys trains coming from Amsterdam, Anvers and Brussels.
In Valence ville comes trains from Nice and the riviera, Briançon, Gap, Lausane, Geneva, and busses from Privas and Aubenas in Ardèche.
In Grenoble arrives TGV trains from Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, Chambéry, and trains from Gap, Dignes, and Italy Torino, Milan, Venice
Some small train stations are within the park :
The station of Die receives 3 trains daily in each direction on the line Valence-Gap.
The stations of Clelles and Saint Michel des Portes receive 6 trains daily on the line Grenoble-Gap.
The nearest international airport is Grenoble Isère International Airport, about 40 km from Grenoble, or about 35 minutes by Coaches. This is a small airport although flights are more frequent in the ski season.
Also, about 100 km from grenoble, the Saint Exupery Satolas Airport in Lyon. From this airport, it is possible to commute to Grenoble and Valence by TGV 30 minutes. airlines link Satolas airport with the other French international airport Orly, Roissy, Toulouse, Nice, most of EU countries, middle east Turkey, Israel, northern africa Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Canada, and the French territories oversea Réunion, Guadeloupe. The Paris Charles de Gaule airport, although farther away, can be convenient, as it is directly linked with Valence 2:30 hours and Grenoble by TGV 3:00 hours, and has connections worldwide.
By bus
Vercors can be reached by bus from the three largest surrounding cities, Grenoble, Valence and Die.
From Grenoble, three regular bus lines exist:From Grenoble to the ski resorts of northern vercors Autrans, Corrençon, Lans en Vercos, Méaudre, Saint Nizier, Villars de LansFrom Grenoble to the villages of Royans: Saint Jean, Saint Laurent, Sainte Eulalie and Pont en Royans.From Grenoble to the Trievre: Gresse, Clelles.
These lines are operated by the VFD company. Telephone From France 0820 833 833, e-mail: [email protected], Website in French
From Valence, four regular bus lines exist:To Die Line 28 it also is possible to reach this city from Valence by trainTo Combovin line 7, 2 busses per dayTo Beaufort sur Gervanne and Plan de Baix Line 25, 1 round trip per dayTo The Royans villages the same ones than from Grenoble, Line 5, 7 round trips per day. Some busses from this line one or two per week continue to the villages of the western plateaus: La Chapelle, Vassieux, Saint Agnan and Saint Martin en Vercors.
From Die, one bus line Line 29, one bus every two hours leads to several villages of the Diois area of Vercors Regional Park, including Châtillon en Diois.
Lines from Valence and Die are operated by the authority of the Drôme département Conseil Général de la Drôme or CG26. Telephone: +33 4 75 81 72 62, Website in French. It is also possible to benefit from personnal transportation services services de rabatement, that is transportation from one place in the western Vercors to the nearest bus station in the surrounding plains. Reservation has to be made in advance for such services, generally in the local chamber of commerce Office du tourisme.