Ain: what to see and do
36 sites listed in the département. Between the mountainous Bugey, the Dombes plain with its thousand ponds and the confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, the Ain offers a mosaic of landscapes of water, forest and karst relief. Villages full of character, hidden waterfalls and fish-filled ponds draw an area still spared mass tourism, close to Lyon and Switzerland.
Crêt de la Neige
The highest point of the Jura massif at 1,720 metres, the Crêt de la Neige overlooks the Pays de Gex with a panorama that stretches in clear weather to Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva.
Grottes du Cerdon
The Cerdon caves, between Lake Nantua and the Ain river, offer a route rich in lessons and discoveries.
Les pertes de la Valserine
The Valserine disappears in tumultuous waters into deep crevasses.
Mémorial des enfants d'Izieu
In this house where 44 Jewish children and their educators were arrested in 1944 before being deported, a museum labelled Musée de France passes on their memory.
Pérouges
To cross Pérouges is to go from the Porte d'En Haut to the Porte d'En Bas. The village has indeed kept its medieval ramparts.
Cascade de la Fouge
Chute de l'Albarine
Château de Ferney-Voltaire
Château de Fléchères
Château de Montribloud
Château des Allymes
Forestland
Fort l'Ecluse
Juraventure
La Cascade de Glandieu
La cascade de Cerveyrieu
Lac de Nantua
Le Grand Colombier
Le parc des oiseaux
Monastère royal de Brou
Monts Jura
A summer–winter mountain resort: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, marked snowshoe trails, sled dogs, all-season luge, robotdome, luge run, ski schools with children's gardens, children's entertainment in season, all shops.
Parc de loisirs de Bouvent
Puits des Tines
A waterfall of the Séran and picturesque site of the Bugey, near the hamlet of Lilignod, in the Ain.
Télécabine de la Faucille
Abbaye d'Ambronay
Cascade de Clairefontaine
Cascade de la Charabotte
Cascade de la Culaz
Cascade de la Vallière
Cascade du Pain de Sucre
Cascade du Palin
Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
Domaine des Saveurs - Les Planons (ex-Domaine des Planons)
La Dombes
Réserve naturelle du Marais de Lavours
