Vanoise National Park
France's first national park, created in 1963 between the Tarentaise and Maurienne valleys in the Alps. Its high country of glaciers and peaks shelters ibex and chamois, and footpaths link mountain refuges across the massif.
- Where
- Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Grade
- Heritage site
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 45.3333, 6.8333
Get the Vanoise National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Vanoise National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes volume with your photos and a note.
Near Vanoise National Park
Gran Paradiso National Park 42 km
A national park in the Graian Alps, spread across the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain. It began as a royal hunting ground of King Victor Emmanuel II, protected to save the Alpine ibex from poachers, and ibex still graze its high slopes.
Skyway Monte Bianco 55 km
A cable car that climbs from Entrèves, near Courmayeur, to Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Opened in 2015, its cabins turn slowly as they rise, giving a full circle of glaciers and peaks on the way up.
Mont Blanc 56 km
The highest mountain in the Alps at about 4,807 metres, its snow dome on the border between France and Italy. It rises above Chamonix, and the climb to the top usually takes two days, with a night in a mountain hut.
Aiguille du Midi 61 km
A granite needle of 3,842 metres in the Mont Blanc massif, reached by cable car straight from Chamonix. The top station has terraces facing Mont Blanc and a glass box, the Step into the Void, hanging over a sheer drop.
Great St Bernard Hospice 65 km
A hospice and hostel for travellers on the Great St Bernard Pass, named after its founder Bernard of Menthon and kept by a community of canons regular ever since. It is the home of the St Bernard dogs, bred here to help find travellers lost in the snow.
Mer de Glace 65 km
The longest glacier in France, a river of ice 7.5 kilometres long on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. A rack railway climbs from Chamonix to Montenvers above it, and an ice cave is cut into the glacier each year for visitors to walk through.
Le Brévent 67 km
A 2,525 metre summit in the Aiguilles Rouges, facing Mont Blanc across the Chamonix valley. Cable cars run to the top, and its cliffs are a launching point for paragliders and wingsuit flyers dropping towards the valley.
Royal Palace of Turin 73 km
The palace of the House of Savoy, built in the 16th century and remodelled in the 17th, with later designs by the Baroque architect Filippo Juvarra. The complex takes in the Palazzo Chiablese and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud, built to hold the Shroud of Turin.
Questions
Where is Vanoise National Park?
Vanoise National Park is in Pralognan-la-Vanoise, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Gran Paradiso National Park (42 km), Skyway Monte Bianco (55 km), Mont Blanc (56 km).
How do I get the Vanoise National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Vanoise National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Vanoise National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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