Camping Lac d'Aiguebelette

This lake and Alpine setting has enough to do to keep you busy for weeks, in and out of the water and in the surrounding mountains. Take off paragliding from the l'Epine mountain range or Marais, hike or cycle around the lake on a marked 18-kilometre nature trail, or amble – enviously – around the lakeside villas and the lake's boathouses on stilts, the only place in the French Alps you can see them. Around 150 kilometres of marked paths for mountain biking are around the lake too, including one that goes right around its perimeter. Within day trip distance there's Chambéry, about 20 minutes away, Lake Anneccy, within an hour, and viewing platforms all around including at Signal du Mont du Chat, the steep cycling challenge about 40 minutes from base.