Get out your mobile phones and enjoy taking a selfie in one of the most beautiful lavender viewpoints in the Pays Diois, which we have selected for you. The effect is guaranteed, because even without its pleasant aroma, lavender always makes you dream and, in addition, lavender in a mountain setting is much more genuine!
Lavender fields may attract you but they are fragile and represent a lot of work by the growers! So, out of respect for their work, admire the lavender, but only from a distance. Stay outside the fields. The lovely flowers are very photogenic but should not be picked!
If you want a bouquet of lavender, rendez-vous with our producers and buy it from their shops and everyone will be happy.
Behind the Domaine de Maupas at Châtillon-en-Diois, in the midst of the Clairette de Die vineyards and its cabanons a little field of lavender is hidden away at the foot of the Glandasse, summit of the South Vercors.
Parking at the Domaine de Maupas
44°41’20.8″N 5°27’43.3″E
You can see the colour of lavender as you approach Die, a real masterpiece of nature: lavender fields in the foreground, walnut trees in the middle ground, the green Vallée de Quint in the background and the cliffs of the Vercors even further in the background!
Chamarges and Saint-Laurent road
44°45’59.7″N 5°20’14.4″E
Lavender fields set below black shales and rock outcrops, characteristic of the mountains of the Diois.
The poplars on the banks of the Comane stream add some vertical lines to the composition.
In both directions from the road side
44°47’40.7″N 5°22’53.2″E
As you enter the Pays Diois, the rows of lavender invite you to discover this colourful and contrasted valley!
This is the time to get out your camera and get your lens to focus on the Saint Croix monastery.
Please park on the left hand side of the track and leave the entrance to the Condamine campsite free.
44°45’50.3″N 5°16’29.3″E
Fully South-facing, immerse yourself in a sea of lavender near Les Prés: above you have mountains, below the valley, to the right and to the left capture the blue wave of lavender!
Walkers can follow the way-marked ‘épis bleus-violacés’ path and discover the largest lavender plantation in the Pays Diois.
Park in the alambic (distillery) car park
Please park opposite the shed to leave room for lavender producers who distill their lavender here in August.
44°32’13.0″N 5°35’37.7″E
Along with pine woods and crops, find the well hidden lavender field, with Angèle mountain as a backdrop.
Still a very wild place, this mule train crossroads was probably a ‘bégude’, where travellers stopped for a drink.
Immerse yourselves in the lavender fields along the Bon Plan path from Montanègue (12,3km + 540m – best undertaken in the morning. If you wish to stay for a long time, park on the Place du Chenevrier in the village).
Little car park on the ‘roses’ bend in the road
Then walk 150 mtrs on the way-marked path which goes off from the bend.
44°34’02.0″N 5°16’54.6″E
On a tiny end of the world type road, time stands still at the Col des Vaches, which overlooks traditional lavender fields.
Just above the little village of Volvent which is shaped like an arc and stands a level bit of ground, watched over by the bare ridges of the Cervelle mountain, the view opens out onto the mountains of Provence.
Park at the recycling container car park
44°33’23.1″N 5°20’56.5″E
