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Heading out in June for ten days, driving from Sheffield.Ive never been before,so wanting some suggestions for camping.Within 20 minutes ride from lifts/trails and cheap and cheerful.All I've managed to find is camping le frene which looks good but bit steep for camping.1 person in a van.👍
I might be out of date but there's only 1 campsite in Les Gets and it's half way up a mountain out of town so it's a major ball ache to ride or walk back to. We ended up driving down the hill every day and parking in town.
Happy to be proven wrong.
Camping Le Freine above les gets is the best, ride down in the morning and either lift up at night or ride up if you want to have a beer in town and miss the last lift.
It’s a lovely site but gets expensive solo in a van as it’s priced per pitch , better with a group .
The morzine campsite is similar price but not good location and not as nice imo.
I just park in the aire at the bottom of les gets or if you want to stay in morzine the big aire just down the road from the centre. There is a proper paid aire next to it if you need electric and toilet waste etc, the free one is fine.
Are you on a tight budget? Because my standard answer is Riders Refuge. It's great when you're on your own as it's packed with other guests and you get a big evening meal every day. It's always good craic and you'll have people to ride with and get trail knowledge from.
I've done every dirtbag version from tents, vans, broom cupboards etc. Now I can't be bothered with it.
I'd offer to fill your passenger seat and split the costs but my Mrs might be suspicious if I disappear for 10 days.
We’ve camped in Montriond for years. We tend to avoid booking a chalet because if the weather turns out to be utterly terrible in PDS we can just load up the van and go somewhere else (Tignes, Les 2 Alpes, Verbier or wherever has better weather).
It’s a 5 minute drive up to Morzine or a 10-15 minute pedal up the river path. On the way home it’s all down hill from either Morzine, Les gets or Avoriaz/Linderats.
There’s. Shop just around the corner that does fresh bread in the morning, a bar/pizza place next door and a super market down the road that’s cheaper than in Morzine.
Showers are good and it doesn’t get boggy if it rains.
Not sure if you can still free camp in the car park halfway up between the Lac de Montriond and Lindrets, but if you do remember the police can move you on after 2 days and you can’t return for 24 or 48hours.
Not sure if you can still free camp in the car park halfway up between the Lac de Montriond and Lindrets,
Ardent? We stayed there last August and then I think we drove up to Seraussaix in the morning to ride & visit the goats.
Over August we stayed in the free aire in Morzine town one night (it was fine, fairly quiet but just a gravel car park) and the subsequent 5 nights stayed in the Telepherique du Nyon car park. Plenty of vans about there, seem to huddle together based on nationality (big group of Belgians up the far end, then some Irish, then some Spanish, then us down the far end). You might get woken up in the mornings by the kayak/white water groups if you want a lie in but it's nice and quiet overnight. Police came one night only to tell us not to light any fires. Some of those weird free toilets up one corner by the bins (where you sit on one of those big metal rings and do your business in a hole in the ground, and the whole thing cleans itself when you leave - we just rolled down in to town and has a coffee or 3 in the mornings), a glacial run off river running right by to wash in the evenings. Probs a 5 min pedal down the hill to get to the super Morzine/pleney lifts, 15 min pedal back up to the van after a heavy day riding.