With all of our wonderful 🧗♂️ rock climbing and Via-Ferrata routes 🏔 au Pays du Mont-Blanc, it is only natural that so many 🌳 accrobranches ® should also appear over recent years! We’ve tried out a few of them, and they are very popular with our 🐵 monkey climbing boys . . .
🌳 some tree climbing terminology:
🌳 accrobranches ® – it is a rope course in the trees, using the same technique of auto-safety used for 🧗♂️ Via-Ferrata / most UK kids know it as Go Ape !
🌳 grimpe d’arbre ® – well, this is just old fashioned tree climbing, but with a safety harness and rope! La « Grimpe d’Arbre » allows you to clamber up the tree trunk to the canopy, jumping across branches along the way! Once perched up in the canopy, many of the tree-climbing companies offer diverse options: a goûter, a lunch or dinner, even an overnight in a hamac!
🌳 tyroliennes – a zip-line, this allows you to zoom across a section of the course, or across a river or lake . . .
🌉 bungee jumping – jumping from a bridge (normally) into the abyss . . . except that you are attached to an elasticated cord, and so you spring up and down after the jump . . .
[ good to know: the opening hours of these facilities are subject to change in the event of bad weather, so always double check before heading there! ]
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Pays du Mont-Blanc
Chamonix Valley (Chamonix, Les Houches, Servoz, Arentière and environs) and Vallorcine
Passy (Plateau d’Assy, Plaine-Joux, Marlioz, Chedde, Bay)
Sallanches, Combloux, Cordon & Domancy
Saint-Gervais, Le Fayet, Saint Nicolas de Véroce, Bionnassay and environs
Megeve & Praz-sur-Arly and environs
Les Contamines-Montjoie and environs
Further France
Chamonix Valley
Accro’Park Chamonix ( Les Gaillands, CHAMONIX )
🐵 Accro’Park Chamonix is located in Les Gaillands (Chamonix) – from 3+ years (parcours pitchoun from 1m) / 6 parcours for all ages, giant 300m tyrolienne, Tarzan jump, monkey bridge, saut dans le vide /
🗓 opening hours : springtime opening: weekends & jours fériés from 13h30 until 19h (last entrance 16h30) / 🗓 summer opening: every day (from mid-June) from 13h30 until 19h / 🗓 autumn opening: see website;
price: from 9€;
🍏 eating options: in Les Gaillands, you will find picnic tables, BBQ facilities and 🥗 small buvette open during the summertime / nearby is the Crèmerie des Aiguilles, with a children’s play area;
➕ bonus: next to 🧗♂️ Gaillands climbing rock and 💦 Arve river walk;
website & FB page email: info@cham'aventure.com address: Les Gaillands, 74400, Chamonix / tel: 04 50 53 55 70 or 04 50 53 00 88
La Fôret Magique ( LES TINES )
🐵 La Forêt Magique (Tines) – for children 7+ years, 1m height and above / tyrolienne verticale, tyrolienne horizontale, pas de géant, toile d’araignées, pont de poutre en V, passerelles, a net to climb, a cabin in the trees for picnics;
🗓 opening hours: April, May, September & October (afternoons only) and June, July & August 10h to 18h every day:
price: from 9€;
🍏 eating options: you’ll find the Excelsior hotel nearby, which has a restaurant (251 chemin de Saint-Roch, Les Tines, 74400, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc);
➕ bonus: near Paint-Ball Mont-Blanc and a walk away from the 💦 Paradis des Praz;
website address: Les Liarets, Les Tines, 74400, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc / tel: 33(0)6 21 12 13 94
PASSY & PLAINE-JOUX
Passy Accro-Lac ( LAC de PASSY )
Here you’ll find : 7 parcours / a 🐵 parcours Pitchounes from 2+ years / a new giant air-bag and play area for tiny ones!
🗓 opening hours: see website;
🍏 eating options: Buvette de la Plage right next door, Les Criques the other side of the lake and picnic tables and BBQ facilities at the lake ( see MBFF Lac de Passy article for further eating options );
➕ bonus: next to lake with wibit and paddle boards & pedalos, mini golf & electric boats, bike park, trottinettes electriques, playgrounds, bouncy castles, and more;
FB page & website address: route des Lacs, Passy (parking plage) / tel: 06 02 66 09 88
Accro-Cimes ( PLAINE-JOUX )
Our older boy tried out the mini parcours here aged 4 years, while his baby brother slept in his buggy (this was a few years ago!). This accrobranches has changed hands a couple of times since we were last there, now it is called Accro-Cimes! / 6 parcours, accessible from 3+ years;
🗓 opening hours: summer holidays: 10h until 17h / sometimes there are special nocturnes until 22h
🍏 eating options: La Bergerie (a firm MBFF favourite), other restaurants and Lac de Passy and Lac Vert and picnic tables (see MBFF Plaine Joux article for further eating options);
➕ bonus: you can watch the parapentes taking off at Plaine-Joux and you are a short walk from Lac Vert / also nearby, the Passerelle Himalayenne and the Jardin des Cimes (open May until October);
FB page address: 300 chemin des Parchets, Plaine-Joux, 74190, Passy (by the car park) / tel: 06 10 77 73 72
SAINT-GERVAIS & LE FAYET
Mont-Blanc Parc Aventure ( Parc Thermal, LE FAYET )
Located in the fabulous 🌳 Parc Thermal in Le Fayet, this was the very first 🐵 accrobranches® that our older boy tried out with his grandparents, aged 3, and he was promptly hooked! It is now run by guides from Compagnie des Guides / from 90cm height;
🗓 opening hours: summer, every day from 10h30 until 18h30 and see website for spring and autumn opening;
price: from 10€ to 22€;
bungee jumping information here;
🍏 eating options: picnic tables and plenty of green, green grass in Le Parc Thermal, and La Caborna now runs the restaurant in the park;
➕ bonus: in Le Parc Thermal, there are lots of activities available (located next to 🧗♂️ rock climbing, 🧗♂️ Via Ferrata, hiking routes, 💦 waterfall, playground, le petit train and duck pond);
MEGEVE & PRAZ-sur-ARLY
Côte 2000 Aventure ( MEGEVE )
This 🐵 accrobranches ® is located at 1500m and next to the altiport in Côte 2000, Megève / the parcours enfant is suitable for children from 5+ years and 1,15m (with an adult) and there are several parcours only 2m from ground, as well as parcours high in trees / CLIT-IT security system, meaning a permanent attachment throughout the parcours;
🗓 opening hours: from mid-July until August open every day 10h until 17h;
🍏 eating options: nearby, you’ll find the 🛩 Coucou Café, Restaurant du Lay, and Restaurant du Côte 2000;
➕ bonus: 🛩 the altiport is next door for plane spotting, and Côte 2000 is the starting point for hiking and VTT routes, 💦 Lac de Javen is nearby, and there is paint-balling next door.
website
address: route de la Côte 2000, Megève (next to altiport) / tel: 06 76 29 71 04
Praz Lac Aventures ( PRAZ-sur-ARLY )
The newest kid on the accrobranches block, this site opened this summer in conjunction with the new plan d’eau !
website & FB page
LES CONTAMINES-MONTJOIE
🌳 Parcours Aventure 4 saisons ( Parc de Loisirs du Pontet, LES CONTAS )
🌳 Parcours Aventure 4 saisons is located within the Parc de Loisirs du Pontet leisure park in Les Contamines-Montjoie.
🍏 eating options: the Chalet du Lac restaurant is located by the small pedalo and fishing lake and there are picnic tables in the park . . . and this summer, you will find Yann and his mini eco-mobile Repaire des Curioos selling ice creams and bio drinks at Notre Dame de la Gorge;
➕ bonus: there are lots of leisure activities in park (swimming lake, water games, chiens de traineau, sports), a playground, donkey walks, this is the starting point for hikes, there is ⛪️ the pretty church at Notre Dame de la Gorge and the Sainte-Chapelle / the Parc de Loisirs du Pontet is also located next to the🚡 Télécabine de la Gorge, for access to the 💦 Lac de l’Etape;
website address: Parc de Loisirs du Pontet, 74170, Les Contamines-Montjoie tel: 06 21 83 52 39
FURTHER AFIELD
If you head a little further afield – to the tyrolienne at the Barrage d’Emosson, to Filenvol (near Annemasse), Lac d’Annecy, Morzine, to Châtel – then you’ll find even more wacky and adrenaline-reaching affairs: filets in the trees, tyroliennes extremes . . .
I am working on this article for you, filled with adventurous options a bit further afield!
Mont Blanc Family Fun 