E-bike lake tour from Oz-en-Oisans
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Office de Tourisme
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Located at the western entrance to the resort of Alpe d'Huez in the Vieil Alpe district.
The Tourist Office is located within the Maison de l'Alpe which houses, in addition to the Tourist Office, the headquarters of the French Ski School and a cash office for the sale of ski lift passes. The Tourist Office reception and its staff provide tourist information in order to best meet the expectations of visitors in winter and summer. The Tourist Office reception desk also offers additional services such as: the sale of Cars Isère / Transaltitude bus tickets, the sale of hiking guidebooks, a public wifi connection area, a changing table in the toilets and a children's area (check its access according to the current health provisions). In addition, the reception area offers a small "shop" whose content is visible in three windows where Alpe d'Huez and Tomorrowland promotional items are displayed (souvenir items, small luggage, textiles...
The Tourist Office's reservation center is also available to holidaymakers to book their stay, as well as groups and seminars. It offers all-inclusive stays with various services: ski passes and lessons, equipment rental, parking space, activities, well-being... Online booking available on the official website of the Tourist Office also allows you to take advantage of promotional offers and tips. A mini wifi box rental service is also available.

Period of opening : From 25/04 to 17/06/2022
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 9 am and 12 pm and between 2 pm and 5 pm.
Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Closed exceptionally on Feast of the Ascension and Whit Monday.
Exceptional closure on May 27, 2022.

From 18/06 to 19/06/2022
Opening hours on Saturday and Sunday between 10 am and 12 pm and between 3 pm and 5 pm.

From 20/06 to 24/06/2022
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 9 am and 12 pm and between 2 pm and 5 pm.

From 25/06 to 28/08/2022, daily between 9 am and 6 pm.

Area : Oisans
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Office de Tourisme de Vaujany
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Nestled at an altitude of 1250m, Vaujany is located on a vast estate connected to Alpe d'Huez in the heart of Oisans in the Northern Alps.
The family resort develops with the rhythm of the seasons, caressed by a soft sun. A rich heritage, varied activities, major events, Vaujany is the playground for all mountain lovers.

Period of opening : From 07/03 to 24/04/2022, daily between 8.30 am and 6 pm.
Monday to Friday: 8.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 6pm
Saturday and Sunday: 8.30am to 6pm.

From 29/06 to 31/08, daily between 8.30 am and 6 pm.

From 01/09 to 04/12.
Closed Saturday and Sunday.

Area : Oisans
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Oz en Oisans Tourist Office
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Oz en Oisans Tourist Office, welcomes and informs you every day during the tourist seasons and from Monday to Friday in the low season.
Oz en Oisans Tourist Office provides the following services:

- Information on Alpe d'Huez grand domaine and the Oisans region
- Information on accommodation
- Information on sports and cultural activities, entertainment and events
- Entertainment Service
- Suscribe for activities offered by the tourist office
- Booking of the tennis courts and indoor climbing gym
- Bus and shuttle timetables
- Weather forecast displayed every morning
- Sale of divers products (parking week passes 40€ in winter, ski resort Wifi vouchers, hiking guidebooks in summer)
- Photocopy service
- Board games borrow

Period of opening : From 17/05 to 30/06/2022
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between 10 am and 12 pm and between 3 pm and 5 pm.
Closed Saturday and Sunday.

Area : Oisans
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La Fare mountain hut
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At the heart of Grandes Rousses mountain ranges, La Fare mountain hut offers you an authentic atmosphere. This intimist little hut, family and easily accessible, is situated in a spectacular and wild place.
This small and intimate refuge, family and simple access : located in a beautiful and wild area. It welcomes curious for a first night in a refuge, hikers and climbers who come to discover the routes of medium and high mountains, between lakes and summits. Live an evening, a night, a morning at the refuge of the Fare, these are strong moments and unforgettable memories.

Food & beverage all day, local products ...
From the refuge it is possible to practice some activities, such as fishing, mountaineering, climbing and hiking...

Carte IGN : 3335 ET / Le Bourg d'Oisans - L'Alpe d'Huez

Period of opening : From 26/06 to 29/08.

Prices : Night: 8 €
Child rate per night (8-12 years): 4 €
Breakfast: 7 to 9 €
Dinner: 15 to 19 €
Half board (pp): 22 to 28 €.


No payment with credit card.
Two different children rates : - 18 y.o et -8 y.o.
Access : Access by foot. There are three possible ways to reach the refuge:

Take the Alpette cable car from Oz resort or the Alpette gondola from the resort of Vaujany, and then climb the remaining 300 m of height gain in fourty-five minutes.

Second possible way is to go to the end of the small road after Alpe d’Huez that goes over the Col du Poutran and start off from the car park at Lac Besson. Almost flat, the path to the refuge only starts to climb after the Alpette fork.

The last possibility for good walkers to reach the refuge is to start from the hamlet of Bessey in Oz en Oisans following trail n°232 and n°262 (carte Oisans au Bout des Pieds).

Area : Oisans
Website Mountain hut recommendations - Summer 2020
Musée d'Huez et de l'Oisans
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Explore Huez and Oisans through the museum's collections.
Several historical periods are presented: from the medieval village of Brandes, passing through the history of the Oisans maquis and the transformation of the village of Huez and its pastures into an international tourist resort.

Located in the heart of the resort, the Huez and Oisans museum, a real open book on the history of men and their environment, traces the life of miners who, from the 12th to the 14th century , exploited a silver mine and established a permanent village at 1,800 meters above sea level (where the archaeological excavations of Brandes are located today). Throughout the museography, daily life in the Middle Ages in the Oisans massif is exposed to visitors ...
Continuing their journey, they discover the exhibition "The summer of 1944 in Oisans", facts of war and resistance which evokes the episode of the withdrawal of the hospital from the maquis de l'Oisans to Alpe d'Huez.
The exhibition “There will be sport”, meanwhile, retraces the transformation of the Huez mountain pastures into a tourist resort, with the arrival of the first skiers in 1936, the date of installation of the Éclose ski lift. , developed by Jean Pomagalski.
The development of the internationally renowned resort has continued since then, closely linked to sports, whether winter or summer, with the Tour de France, which was hosted for the first time in Alpe d'Huez in 1952.

Period of opening : From 20/06 to 27/08/2022
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 10 am and 12 pm and between 2 pm and 7 pm.

On demand.

Prices : Free entry.

Area : Oisans
EDF Hydrélec museum
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The Musée EDF Hydrélec is the only museum in France dedicated to hydroelectricity. Installed in Oisans, the Musée EDF Hydrélec features a new 900m2 scenographic display that retraces the epic story of the production of hydroelectricity.
It pays homage to the scientists, engineers, technicians and manoeuvres that played a role in building the hydroelectric power stations and dams, some of which have become an integral part of our heritage and genuine works of art. Installed in Oisans, in the heart of an area with a long history of hydroelectricity, the Musée EDF Hydrélec has now been awarded the «Musée de France» label. It features a number of unique collections comprising scientific and technical objects from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Member of the "Route of the know-how of the Oisans", he organizes the guided tour "Exceptional electricity" on reservation ..
This establishment offers the E-Bike Service: charge your electric bike here on request (remember to take your charger).

Period of opening : From 01/01 to 31/10/2022.
Closed on Monday.
Closed exceptionally on January 1st, Feast of the Ascension, May 1st and May 8th.

From 01/12 to 31/12/2022.
Closed on Monday.
Closed exceptionally on bank holidays.

Prices : Free of charge. Booking needed for groups.
Access : From Grenoble, D1091 towards Bourg d'Oisans until "Rochetaillée". Follow the signs to Allemont and drive along the Verney dam towards the Col du Glandon and Col de la Croix de Fer.

Area : Oisans
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Vaujany museum
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Espace Vaujany Museum will be a traveler, unforeseen, adventurer, discoverer ... You will be pilot, mycologist, snowmaker or musheuse.
You will learn to recognize the animals in their footsteps, the small flowers to their perfumes etc ...
It is an immersive space of discovery, discovering nature as historical heritage, discovering great local revolutions as challenges for tomorrow.
Poly sensory, playful, we manipulate a lot of things, we look and we marvel, we learn too, and we play with family, a lot.

 It is an "ageless" space for curious souls, an adventure-discovery full of emotions and surprises, actions and sensations, not least!

AND WHAT ARE WE FIND? : A travel!
After a spectacular and sensational arrival in Vaujany, which we will not reveal the content, you will enter no animals ... in the forest.
There, before you venture, you will be given all the keys to reading this territory unique in the world: A multimedia animation will finally allow you to understand the formation of landscapes, and how the geology of Vaujany is exceptional. You will finally understand the movements of the African and European plates. At the origin of the formation of the Alps, the evolution of the reliefs, and in what they are so specific!

An animated model, equipped with small optical theaters, will offer you a scholarly journey in the landscape: you will be told about aiguillettes and streams, ski slopes and all that makes up the landscape.
The adventure can then begin.
An immersive walk in the forest will allow you to discover all that composes it:
- Wildlife: you will finally learn who lives where, depending on the environment or altitude,
- The flora: an immense interactive herbarium will help you to recognize the flowers that you encounter during your walks, those hidden under your skis in winter and that delight the spring here and full boxes will reveal the secrets of pharmacopoeia as the recipe of Génépi or the spice jam of the peaks,
- Mycology: you will become a savvy picker or an outstanding cook,
- In the forest you can also have fun to recognize the footprints of the animals, the song of the Tetra Lyre or the grunt of the wild boar.

Even the secret breathing of the trees will be revealed to you !!!

A moment of pure scientific magic!
The whole bathed in an extremely stenographic environment which, thanks to a deployment of immersive technologies, will make you live a real spectacle.
Your walk will also lead you to meet the men and women who made and do Vaujany:
Hidden in little magic boxes that will reveal their secrets, you will find the past life, with stories of elders, the enmontagnement and the first school ringtones, you hear the hawkers pass and we will remind you all the small trades that we used to practice here ...

You will then switch to Vaujany today: an unspoilt village, its rules of urban planning and its construction bias, a tourist resort, its offers and its orientations.
It is also where you will be unveiled the big companies or the small gestures of a daily mountain, whether to limit the risks of avalanche or to preserve the roads, you will find all the techniques and the new professions (what does a snowmaker really do, what is the life of a musheuse, etc.), through videos and interviews with inhabitants, technicians, ... enthusiasts!

Finally, you will find all the local entertainment here, our parties and balls, and all that makes the charm of life in Vaujany.

You will then be able to stick to the stakes of development and of the future, and after having acquired the mastery of the data of historical evolution, you exercise with the political and strategic decision-making: three "interactive walls" will allow you to approach the big ones contemporary challenges, and practice territory politics, or simply measure the impact of your own behavior.

You will then come out of the enchanted and learned forest, and you can resume ... the way of the airs.
Because to close this magnificent course, we decided to install a real professional flight simulator, which will give you the exceptional opportunity to learn the piloting of an aircraft flying over Vaujany and its surroundings: attention, possible crash !

Period of opening : From 19/06 to 05/09, daily between 9 am and 7 pm.

Prices : Free of charge.

Area : Oisans
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