What are the 10 best hikes in France?

For the upcoming spring holidays, you may be planning to go hiking on the many trails in France: this ranking of the best French hikes will certainly give you some ideas. At the beginning of February, Sportsshoes.com published a ranking of the ten best hikes in France. The sports equipment manufacturer sifted through Google search and Instagram hashtag data and detected almost 50 French routes. It remained to analyze which ones were the most searched for... and therefore the most popular.

On the first step of the podium: we find the Camino Frances, which is far from being a surprise since it is also present in the ranking of the best hikes in the world. Then come the famous GR 20, GR 31, and GR 10. Here is the detailed list.

Top 10 best hikes in France

• 1- The Frances trail: the French part of the Camino de Santiago, a hike of... 800 kilometers long and stretching over several countries including France, Portugal, and England, is without a doubt "the most popular of all, with 379,920 messages under its hashtag and a whopping 22,200 monthly searches on Google", the press release states. Go to Saint-Jean-Pied-du-Port if you want to walk a part of it: for the whole route, you'll need 4 to 5 weeks!

• 2- The GR 20, or Fra Li Monti, is a magnificent but sometimes difficult hike that crosses Corsica.

• 3- The GR 34, or the Sentier des Douaniers, is a 2,000-kilometre-long trail along the coast of Brittany.

• 4- The GR 10 is one of the most difficult paths in France, which runs along the Pyrenees mountain range.

• 5- The Lac Blanc is one of the easiest hikes on the list, with a view of Mont Blanc.

• 6- The Cirque of Gavarnie, the treasure of the Pyrenees and its waterfall, is an easy 8 km hike, with a difference in altitude of about 250m.

• 7- The Napoleon road links Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes to Sisteron in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence via a 165 km long path.

• 8- The Ochre Trail in the Luberon is an easy hike through the old ochre quarries in Roussillon, a natural pigment mixed with the sand of the cliffs.

• 9- The GR 65, or the Way of Saint James via the Route du Puy, which crosses a wide variety of landscapes: the Velay, the wild gorges of the Allier, the plateaus of the Margeride and Aubrac, or the Lot valley.

• 10- The Capo Rosso in southern Corsica allows you to discover this pink granite cape, on which a Genoese tower overlooks the town of Cap.

⋙ 30 (great) ideas for your next hikes in France

The experts have also compiled a ranking of the best hiking holiday destinations in the world, in which France only comes in 7th, far behind Spain. 7th, far behind Spain, first on this list, Japan, second, and England, third.

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