France
From the Alps to the ridges of the Pyrenees
France has the densest walking network in Europe: since 1947 volunteers have painted more than 200,000 kilometres of path with white-and-red stripes.
The country has three great ranges: the Alps with Mont Blanc, the Pyrenees with their long ridges, and the Cevennes with chestnut and granite country. Beside them the Vosges, the Jura and the cliffs of Brittany and Normandy.
From May to October you walk in the mountains; along the coast almost all year.
Trips in France
Vercors · FranceGrande Traversée du Vercors Nord
Eight days along the eastern balconies, the Hauts-Plateaux reserve and the southern valleys of the Vercors, from Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte to Die.
Mont Blanc massif · Switzerland, France, ItalyTour du Mont Blanc
The classic walk around Mont Blanc: 164 kilometres, three countries, eleven stages from 6 to 20 kilometres, and every day a balcony view of the highest mountain in the Alps.
Corsica · FranceGR20
The legendary and famously hard long-distance trail across Corsica: fifteen refuge-to-refuge stages from Calenzana to Conca, over granite, through high cirques and along the aiguilles de Bavella.