Between Isère and Drôme
The Vercors Regional Natural Park is one of France's 58 regional natural parks. It stretches across a vast mid-mountain massif of 206,000 hectares. It includes 84 municipalities spread across eight natural regions: Northern Piedmont, Quatre-Montagnes, Coulmes, Vercors Drôme, Royans, Diois, Trièves, and Gervanne.
Its Main Missions
The Vercors Regional Natural Park Joint Syndicate runs this organization, which has numerous daily missions. The first of these is to preserve and enhance natural environments, fauna, flora, rivers, etc.
The Park's missions also include supporting the sustainable development of its territory in the areas of agriculture, tourism, culture, energy, mobility, urban planning, etc., and informing and raising awareness among Vercors residents and visitors about this vibrant life and the culture of its successive populations, the oldest of which date back to prehistory.
Explore it, immerse yourself
The Park promotes and maintains a network of over 4,000 km of marked trails, allowing you to discover magnificent landscapes on foot, by donkey, on horseback, by mountain bike, by bicycle, or by practicing other nature sports such as canoeing, kayaking, climbing, caving, etc. With your senses alert, it's not uncommon to encounter marmots and ibex, or to spot a vulture in flight. The Park's eco-guards and the Nature Reserve rangers offer good advice to hikers.
The Vercors, Land of History
The Park manages two history museums located in Vassieux-en-Vercors. The Resistance Memorial is a central stop on a trail throughout the massif to discover the sites where Resistance actions took place during the Second World War. The Museum of Prehistory is located on the site of a flint knapping workshop abandoned 4,500 years ago by artisan stonemasons.
Inspired Territories
From the Hauts-Plateaux du Vercors National Nature Reserve, a 17,000-hectare natural heartland in the wildest part of the massif, to the twists and turns of remarkable roads and the subterranean depths, the Vercors is a mosaic of inspired territories inviting contemplation, discovery, and adventure...
Terroir and Expertise
Several national and European (AOP) labels recognize the high value of Vercors farm products, particularly in relation to the farming methods, the areas used, and the traditional breeds raised.
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