Camperada

From Cologne to the Ardèche and Provence

Down the Rhone valley to the south: a stop in Lyon, then the gorges of the Ardèche and, to finish, Provence around Avignon. France charges its motorways by distance, which is why the toll appears here as a range rather than an invented single figure.

One-way route · calculated on 27 October 2026 with the Camperada planner

Distance
970 km
Pure driving time
10 hrs 43 mins
Travel days
10
Nights, 1 of them on the way
9

Stages and overnight stops

  1. Cologne

    Starting point of the route

    Day 1

  2. Lyon

    Drive 695 km, 7 hrs 26 mins, spread over 2 driving days · 1 night

    Day 2

  3. Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

    Drive 196 km, 2 hrs 12 mins · 4 nights

    Day 3

  4. Avignon

    Drive 78 km, 1 hr 5 mins · 3 nights

    Day 7

Divided with at most 5 hours of driving per day. In the planner you set your own pace, and the stages rearrange themselves.

What the route costs

Fuel

around €257

  • 112 litres of diesel at 11.5 l/100 km
  • Blended price €2.30/l, weighted by the kilometres per country
  • national averages of 12 October 2026 (European Commission, Weekly Oil Bulletin (prices incl. taxes))

Tolls and vignettes

For this route the planner lists no vignettes or special toll sections.

Plus distance-based tolls, estimated as a range:

  • France, class 2, around 467 km tolled€65 to €79

A range instead of a single figure, because tariffs vary by entry and exit.

Tariffs as of 2026, up to 3.5 t maximum permitted weight.

Overnight stays

€266 to €414

  • France, 9 nights€266 to €414

Average prices for 2 adults and 1 child per night, mid to high season (PiNCAMP price analysis 2026 (ADAC)). Your site may be below or above that.

How vignettes, distance tolls and special tolls interact across Europe is explained in the toll guide. What else to budget for on a motorhome trip is collected in the trip costs.

Make it your trip

All figures here apply to the one-way route with default assumptions. In the planner, exactly this route opens with all its stops: set your own starting point, and the return leg, your vehicle and your nights recalculate live. Free and without an account.

Open the route in the planner

What was calculated with

  • Vehicle assumption: 3.00 m tall, 2.30 m wide, 7.00 m long, 3.5 t. These are reference values, not a specific vehicle.
  • Routed via GraphHopper on an OpenStreetMap basis. The vehicle dimensions fed into the routing.
  • One-way route without the return: it depends on your starting point and is added in the planner.
  • Calculated on 27 October 2026; in the planner the same route recalculates live with current prices.

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