Montgenevre and Sestriere
 

Hello all
I am currently on tour on the way down to italy from France and planned a nice D roada route from grenoble to italy via Montgenevre and Sestriere. I knlw it gets a little chilly up there but does anyone know if roads are all open?

My daughter and family have a flat in Sestriere and were there a couple of weeks ago, lots of fresh snow. The forecast doesn't look too positive. Montgenèvre doesn't look much better.

thanks Tim. decided to do the Route Napoleon towards Nice .

For what it's worth, I rode through Grenoble yesterday and it was sunny and 20 degrees out, not a flake of snow to be seen except on the very tops of the mountains to the east.

From Grenoble, I rode southwest through the Vercors national park to Die. There are some fairly high elevations in that park, and I saw no snow of any kind - nor was the temperature particularly cool.

Usually, countries or touristic regions make information about what passes are open available on websites. If you do a Google search such as "Is the xxx pass open?" you can find up to date information.

The problem with some mountain passes in Europe is that if there is a better road (a motorway) serving the same route, the local authorities just don't bother to maintain the pass in the wintertime, this because it is too expensive to do so.

Michael