Camping du Pré Rolland

The adrenaline junkies among you can get your fix with a bungee jump off Trièves’ Pont de Ponsonnas (15 minutes’ drive), or by soaring above jagged mountain peaks on a tandem flight organised by Paraglider School Aérosat (five minutes’ walk). Younger adventurers will have fun racing around the treetops on high ropes at Parcours Aventure Trièves (half an hour’s drive). Even if you’d rather keep both feet firmly on the ground, you can still test your head for heights by walking across the River Drac on the Passerelle Himalayenne suspended footbridge (35 minutes). There’s hiking for all abilities on the Sentier d’Asnières-en-Dévoluy (45 minutes), with its backdrop of craggy foothills, and some rather more testing routes and serious rock climbing up to the flat top of Mont Aiguille (40 minutes). The lakes of Monteynard-Avignonet and Saulet (both 40 minutes) are popular watersports hubs, with facilities for windsurfing, kitesurfing and dinghy sailing. If you can muster any strength after all that exertion, make a beeline for Terre Vivante Ecological Centre (10 minutes) and amble around wildlife ponds and meadows full of wildflowers.