Les Planches-en-Montagne tourism and travel guide

Visit Les Planches-en-Montagne: highlights and tourist information

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Les Planches-en-Montagne is situated in the Jura department and Franche-Comte region (now part of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region), in the east of France at 35 kilometres from Lons-le-Saunier, the department capital (general information: Les Planches-en-Montagne is 367 kilometres from Paris).

Popular places to visit nearby include Baume-les-Messieurs at 28 km and Chateau-Chalon at 31 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

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Les Planches-en-Montagne, France: places to visit and attractions

Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Les Planches-en-Montagne in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!

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Map of places to visit near Les Planches-en-Montagne

Markets in and near Les Planches-en-Montagne

• Champagnole: market Saturday (13km)
• Morez: market Saturday all day (14km)
• Clairvaux-les-Lacs: market Wednesday (22km)
• Saint-Claude: market Saturday (32km)
• Arbois: market Friday (33km)
• Divonne-les-Bains: market Sunday & Friday (34km)
• Levier: market Wednesday (35km)
• Gex: market Saturday (35km)
• Lons-le-Saunier: market Thursday all day (35km)
• Pontarlier: market Thursday (38km)

More information about Les Planches-en-Montagne, Franche-Comte

Tourist attractions near Les Planches-en-Montagne, France

What to do at Les Planches-en-Montagne? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Les Planches-en-Montagne.

Heritage sites

• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (46km)

Most beautiful villages in France

(see also beautiful French villages)

• Baume-les-Messieurs (28km)
• Chateau-Chalon (31km)
• Yvoire (40km)
• Lods (47km)

National Monuments

• Voltaire Chateau (45km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Pontarlier (39km)

Regional Natural Parcs

• Haut-Jura (26km)

Remarkable gardens

• Jardin des jeux du château d'Arlay (38km)
• Le Labyrinthe - Jardin des Cinq Sens (39km)
• Jardin d'eau de pré curieux (53km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Gorges de la Lemme (5km)
• Cascade de la Billaude (6km)
• Lac de Narlay (8km)
• Lacs de Maclu (8km)
• Lac du Fioget (8km)
• Lac d'Ilay (9km)
• Lac du Vernois (9km)
• Source - Le Hérisson (13km)
• Lac de Bonlieu (13km)
• Lac du Val (15km)
• Lac de l'Abbaye (15km)
• Lac de Chambly (16km)
• Lac de Chalain (17km)
• Lac des Rousses (17km)
• Forêt de la Joux (21km)
• Confluence - Le Hérisson (22km)
• Lacs d'Étival (23km)
• Source - la Seille (27km)
• Lac de Lamoura (29km)
• Cascade de la queue de cheval (30km)
• Col de la Faucille (31km)
• Défilé d'Entre-Roches (51km)

Towns of Art and history

• Arbois (33km)
• Salins-les-Bains (34km)

Geography and distances

Getting here

Les Planches-en-Montagne is in the east of France. Most visitors drive via Paris (from the north and west) or via Lyon (from the south), or fly into Geneva to the south For driving distances to Les Planches-en-Montagne from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 9 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Chaux-Des-Crotenay, Crans, Entre-Deux-Monts, Foncine-le-Bas, Foncine-le-Haut, Fort-du-Plasne, Lac-Des-Rouges-Truites, Les Chalesmes and Syam.

This page in French: Visiter Les Planches-en-Montagne