Vercors
Vercors is a massif of mountains and plateaus east of the Rhône Valley, between the valleys of the rivers Drôme and Isère, in the Rhône alpes region of France.
The Vercors massif and surrounding areas are protected as a regional park (Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors in French). Some especially wild and remote places of south eastern Vercors are in a more protected area named Réserve intégrale des hauts plateaux du Vercors (Vercors high plateaus reservation).
The region is popular for nature sports such as hiking, Nordic skiing, alpinism, and caving. It
is also a good place for sight seeing, as it offers various and
beautiful landscapes visible from some of the most vertiginous roads in
the world.
Around these mountains are more lowland regions, with sharply different
climates, from the almost alpine Trièves to the rather Mediterranean
Diois
