Camping Municipal Les Écureuils

Fancy a taste of France? Have a sup of du vin by sipping on Clairette at La Cave de Die Jaillance, 15 minutes’ drive from the site, or sniff out the lavender 20 minutes from base at Distillerie des 4 Vallées, where you can buy essential oil and soap among other scented souvenirs. Have more family-friendly days at Arbo’Magic five minutes away, where the kids can swing between trees, explore the treehouses and zip along giant slides, or take things up a notch with treetop rope courses and zippy ziplines at Die’s Acro’parc Aventure. Getting in touch with nature is a cinch hereabouts too: flit along to Le Jardin des Découvertes, where a kaleidoscope of exotic butterflies dances among the ferns and flowers, or buzz lazily over to Miellerie l’Abeille du Vercors to learn how to be a beekeeper. If time can be made for lengthier wanders, make a beeline for the stunning Cirque d’Archiane half an hour away on the other side of the pretty village of Châtillon-en-Diois. Or make the trek nearly an hour away to Vassieux-en-Vercors (known for its help to the World War II French Resistance) for the Resistance memorial museum and, a little further on, a guided tour of la Grotte de la Draye Blanche.