Driving guide · digital download · Edition 2027
France Driving Guide
44 driving roads · France. One page each, with the route, the toll, the season and where to stop.
- Roads
- 44
- Total length
- 1,333 km
- GPX
- 44
- Toll roads
- 0
- The PDF, the Start Here page for your phone (works offline, sorts the roads by distance) and 44 GPX tracks
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- The guide is in English
- Edition 2027: the rechecked edition is emailed to you free by 1 May 2027
Written and published by Tom Sonecki, a sole trader (Einzelunternehmen) in Hamburg. Payment by Stripe, which is the merchant of record.
Why this guide
Not one road in this guide charges you. Every one of them can still be shut, and somebody signs the order.
44 driving roads across France: the Alps north and south, Provence and the Verdon, the Pyrénées from the Atlantic to the Aude, the Cévennes, the Jura, the Vosges and Corsica. One page each: what the road is like to drive, who opens the gate and when, what you may not take up it, up to four places worth stopping for, and a button that opens the whole route in Google Maps. 1,333 km of road, every line drawn from OpenStreetMap and measured at both ends against the places its page names.
The gate is a decree, and it is published daily
The prefecture reads tomorrow's fire risk between five and six each evening from 1 June to 30 September, and on a red day the Route des Crêtes above Cassis is shut. A département opens a col when its own crews have cleared it, which in 2026 meant 9 May for the Tourmalet and 12 June for the Iseran. Every page prints the 2026 answer where a body published one, and says so where nobody did.
Sometimes it is a tape measure, a morning or a ski piste
Galamus takes nothing over 2.70 m and runs one way at a time from eleven to six in July and August. The Galibier and the Izoard belong to cyclists on two named mornings each. The Verdon Route des Crêtes is one-way and shuts on the fourth Friday in November. The Tourmalet spends February as a ski slope. Each page says which.
A line measured against the towns it names
Every one of the 44 lines was drawn from the OpenStreetMap extracts and its two ends measured against the places printed under its map. Where the line stops short of the town the road is usually said to reach, because the road's own name stops there, the page names the place the line actually reaches instead.
Page 2 of the guide
Check it is your region before you pay.
Straight-line distance from each city to the nearest point of each road. The free sample carries this whole map.
| City | Roads within 150 km | Nearest |
|---|---|---|
| Grenoble | 22 | 17 km |
| Turin | 19 | 51 km |
| Geneva | 13 | 33 km |
| Nice | 12 | 24 km |
| Lyon | 12 | 70 km |
| Marseille | 10 | 17 km |
| Bordeaux | 0 | 194 km |
| Paris | 0 | 361 km |
Not your region? The shelf sorts all seven guides by the roads near your town.
The contents
Every road in the guide.
free in the sample
| No. | Road | Region | Toll or gate | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Col du Noyer | Hautes-Alpes | Bike days | Shut in winter |
| 02 | Col de l'Iseran | Savoie | Bike day | Shut in winter |
| 03 | Col du Télégraphe and the Galibier free | Savoie / Hautes-Alpes | Bike days | Shut in winter |
| 04 | Cormet de Roselend | Savoie | Bike day | Shut in winter |
| 05 | Col d'Izoard | Hautes-Alpes | Bike days | Shut in winter |
| 06 | Cirque de Navacelles | Gard / Hérault | No caravans | Open all year |
| 07 | Col de Bavella | Corse-du-Sud | Ice to March | Open all year |
| 08 | Col de Joux Plane | Haute-Savoie | Single track | Shut in winter |
| 09 | Col du Grand Colombier | Ain | 22 per cent | Snow on top |
| 10 | Col d'Allos | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | No parapet | Shut in winter |
| 11 | Port de Balès | Haute-Garonne | Gated | Shut in winter |
| 12 | Col de Pailhères | Ariège / Aude | Snow shut | Shut in winter |
| 13 | Cime de la Bonette free | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence / Alpes-Maritimes | Open 10-20 | Shut in winter |
| 14 | Col de la Cayolle | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence / Alpes-Maritimes | Winter shut | Shut in winter |
| 15 | Gorges du Cians | Alpes-Maritimes | Rockfall | Open all year |
| 16 | Gorges de Daluis | Alpes-Maritimes | Tunnels | Open all year |
| 17 | Col du Portet | Hautes-Pyrénées | Dead end | Shut in winter |
| 18 | Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Snow to May | Station open |
| 19 | Port de Larrau | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Winter gate | Shut in winter |
| 20 | Corniche des Cévennes | Gard / Lozère | Free | Open all year |
| 21 | Les Calanches de Piana | Corse-du-Sud | Alternating | Open all year |
| 22 | Col de Turini | Alpes-Maritimes | Ice in winter | Open all year |
| 23 | Les Lacets de Montvernier | Savoie | Single lane | Open all year |
| 24 | Col du Mont-Cenis | Savoie / Piemonte | Bike day | Shut in winter |
| 25 | Route de Combe Laval | Drôme | Rockfall | Open all year |
| 26 | Gorges de la Bourne | Isère | 3.50 m limit | Open all year |
| 27 | Route des Crêtes du Verdon free | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | One-way | Shut 22 Nov |
| 28 | Cap Canaille free | Bouches-du-Rhône | Shut on red | Fire rules |
| 29 | Col d'Aubisque and the Soulor | Pyrénées-Atlantiques / Hautes-Pyrénées | No parapet | Shut in winter |
| 30 | Gorges de Galamus free | Aude / Pyrénées-Orientales | 2.70 m limit | Open all year |
| 31 | Gorges de l'Ardèche | Ardèche | Busy by 10 | Open all year |
| 32 | Mont Ventoux | Vaucluse | Snow kit | Shut in winter |
| 33 | Corniche Sublime | Var | Busy by 11 | Open all year |
| 34 | Gorges du Tarn | Lozère / Aveyron | Single file | Open all year |
| 35 | Col de la Croix de Fer | Savoie / Isère | Winter shut | Shut in winter |
| 36 | Col de la Colombière | Haute-Savoie | Winter shut | Shut in winter |
| 37 | Col du Tourmalet | Hautes-Pyrénées | Ski piste | Shut in winter |
| 38 | Col d'Aspin | Hautes-Pyrénées | Stock loose | Shut in winter |
| 39 | Route des Crêtes des Vosges | Haut-Rhin / Vosges | Shut 17 Nov | Opens April |
| 40 | Alpe d'Huez, the 21 hairpins | Isère | Winter tyres | Ploughed |
| 41 | Gorges de la Nesque | Vaucluse | Free | Open all year |
| 42 | Col de la Madeleine | Savoie | Cattle loose | Shut in winter |
| 43 | Col de Larche | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence / Piemonte | Chains | Open all year |
| 44 | Col de Peyresourde | Hautes-Pyrénées / Haute-Garonne | Ski traffic | Ploughed |
Questions
Anything else: info@outforadrive.com
What does Edition 2027 mean?
You download the current guide the moment you pay, with every toll, gate hour and opening date as read for the 2026 season. Each is then checked again for 2027, and the rechecked edition is emailed to you free by 1 May 2027. The roads, routes and GPX tracks do not expire. Every guide, in the 2027 Edition (all seven guides in one checkout) or bought on its own, gets its rechecked edition this way.
How do I know a road is open on the day?
Each page names the body that decides and the 2026 answer where it published one: the département's road service for a col, the prefecture for a fire closure, the commune for a barrier. The guide is rechecked once a year and the order is signed every day, so the page tells you who to ask rather than pretending to be live.
What if a road is shut when I go?
Every page prints the road's season. Where the season has dates, the Start Here page on your phone checks today's date and says whether the road is open now, shut for winter, or which month it opens.
Does it work with my navigation app?
The GPX tracks load into komoot, Kurviger, Calimoto, OsmAnd and Garmin. If your car's own navigation cannot import a GPX file, tap Drive the route on the page: the whole road opens in Google Maps on your phone, and from there on CarPlay or Android Auto. Apple Maps and Waze get the start of the road.
Is it for motorcycles too?
Yes. The roads are the same on two wheels, and where an operator bars motorcycles, the road's own paragraph says so.
Is this a printed book?
No. It is a download: an A4 PDF with one page per road, a Start Here page for your phone that works with no signal, and a folder of GPX tracks. Print the PDF on a home printer if you want paper.
Can I give it as a present?
Yes. Buy it as usual, then write to info@outforadrive.com with the name and email address of the person it is for. A download link of their own is emailed to them, the licence passes to them, and the rechecked 2027 edition goes to their address too. Fresh links from the re-download page still go to the address you paid with.
What if it is not for me?
Ask for a refund within 30 days. One line is enough, and no reason is needed.
The 2027 Edition
This guide and six more for €79.00.
All seven cost €188.93 bought one by one. The 2027 Edition is one checkout for all of them and for every guide published while the 2027 Edition is on sale.
Every guide, in the Edition or bought on its own, gets its rechecked 2027 edition free by email.
