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Col du Galibier (via Télégraphe)

D902 · Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne → Col du Lautaret · France

Length
21 miles
Drive time
1 h
Type
Mountain pass
Region
Europe

Before you go: Closed roughly Oct–Jun (snow)

The Tour de France's high altar: up the Télégraphe, through Valloire, then the barren upper ramps to 2,642 m — history on every hairpin and the Écrins glittering to the south.

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