Mountain pass · France

Col du Joly by motorcycle

Col du Joly tops out at 1,989 m (6,526 ft) in France. It is the 20th highest of the 145 passes in France on the Motoseyir map. Below: the road surface, when it is usually closed, the passes around it and a loop you can ride over it.

Col du Joly
Photo: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

Elevation
1,989 m (6,526 ft)
Location
France
Road surface
Paved
Winter
No seasonal closure is recorded for this road in our data. High roads can still close after snow, so check before you go.
Coordinates
45.7839, 6.6740
Sources
Wikidata · OpenStreetMap

Elevation is the figure on the pass’s OpenStreetMap entry or its source page; the point is the summit on the road itself.

Ride a loop over Col du Joly

The web route planner opens with Col du Joly as the start point. Choose a direction, how long you want to ride and how twisty the roads should be, and it draws up to three round trips that come back to the pass. Send the one you like to your phone with a QR code and ride it in Motoseyir.

Plan a loop over Col du Joly

Passes near Col du Joly

Col du Joly in the Motoseyir app

Col du Joly is on Motoseyir’s pass map with its altitude and exact location, along with 1,600+ passes in 36 countries. Add it to your tour and go.

If your route crosses a pass that may be closed this month, the app tells you before you set off, and Generate a tour skips closed passes. Passes you ride over are ticked off from your ride log automatically.

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Pass data: Motoseyir’s pass list, compiled from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the source page linked above.