Carved by rivers over thousands of years, gorges are among the most spectacular landscapes in France. The Verdon, the Tarn and the Ardèche are the most famous, but the Alps, the Pyrenees and Corsica also hide narrow canyons with dizzying walls.
This selection brings together gorges to admire from the road or a viewpoint, and others to explore on foot along walkways, such as Kakuetta or the Fier. Many can also be discovered by canoe, rafting or canyoning.
A famous canyon with limestone walls. Above all see: the Point Sublime (400 m high), the Barre de l'Escalès (cliff), the Baume aux Bœufs tunnel cave, the St-Maurin waterfalls...
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A 27 km limestone canyon carved by the Tarn between the Causse de Sauveterre and the Causse Méjean, dotted with hilltop villages and dizzying viewpoints.
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The Ardèche Gorges are in the south of the Ardèche département, stretching about thirty kilometres between the famous Pont d'Arc at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc and Saint-Martin-d'Ardèche.
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The Jonte gorges, a tributary of the Tarn, a sabre-cut between the Causse Méjean and the Causse Noir, offer climbers fine wild cliffs, haunted by griffon vultures. In short, a grandiose site in Roquefort country.
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A spectacular 2 km canyon in Haute-Soule, with walls reaching 350 metres high, discovered in 1906 by the speleologist Édouard-Alfred Martel.
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The Lovagny region, with its famous Gorges du Fier, offers tourists attractions that contrast strangely with the luminous splendours of the shores of Lake Annecy.
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The Galamus Gorges offer the grandiose spectacle of the struggle between water and limestone rock.
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The Restonica river rises at 1,711 m altitude in the Rotondo massif, not far from Corte, in Haute-Corse.
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The Cians is a river that rises at the foot of Mont Mounier (alt. 2,817 m) on the slopes of Pierrous.
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The red gorges: the name Daluis comes from the name of a commune on the right bank of the Haut-Var, downstream of the magnificent gorges of red Permian schists that make this tourist circuit world-famous. Of the same nature as the Cians gorges, the Daluis gorges are...
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The Grands Goulets are gorges in the French département of the Drôme, in the upper part of the reculée of the Vernaison (or Échevis valley), in the western part of the Vercors massif.
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From Savines take the direction of Embrun, then Guillestre; from there you sink into the Guil Gorges and discover the Queyras valley.
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In the heart of summer, shade and coolness are sometimes welcome... Add the extraordinary beauty of a site and the walk becomes even more pleasant.
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