Mont Salève 
A good road and cableway ascend to Mont Salève, a long limestone ridge south of Geneva, in French territory (good rock-climbing):
16km/10mi to Monnetier, round trip 69km/43mi, maximum gradient 6%.
Leave Geneva by the Route de Florissant and road 42, which runs southeast via the suburb of Villette. 6km/4mi: Veyrier (alt. 422 m/1,385ft) on the French frontier (passport and customs control). Straight ahead is the lower station of a cableway 1,180 m/3,872ft long which runs up in six minutes to a height of 1,143 m/3,750ft on Mont Salève.
16km/10mi to Monnetier, round trip 69km/43mi, maximum gradient 6%.
Leave Geneva by the Route de Florissant and road 42, which runs southeast via the suburb of Villette. 6km/4mi: Veyrier (alt. 422 m/1,385ft) on the French frontier (passport and customs control). Straight ahead is the lower station of a cableway 1,180 m/3,872ft long which runs up in six minutes to a height of 1,143 m/3,750ft on Mont Salève.
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Alternatively turn left beyond Veyrier into road 206 and in 3.5km/2mi right into 206A. 7km/4mi: Mornex (572 m/1877ft, a summer holiday resort on the southern slopes of the Petit Salève. Almost opposite the Protestant church is a house in which Richard Wagner lived in 1856.
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Grand Salève
1.5km/1mi from the Monnetier lookout a road branches off on the right to the Treize-Arbres inn (1,184 m/3,885ft). Above the inn (1,212 m/3,977ft; orientation table) there is a magnificent view of the Mont Blanc chain, Lake Geneva and the Jura. A footpath leads up (30minutes) to the Crêt de Grange-Tournier (1,308 m/4,292ft), the highest point on the Grand Salève.
Grand Piton to Geneva
The road along the slopes of the Grand Salève runs in 5km/3mi to Col de la Croisette (1,176 m/3,858ft; restaurant), with roads running down to Collonges on the right and La Muraz on the left. Then past the Grand Piton (1,380 m/4,528ft), the highest point in the Salève range, and then downhill, with many bends. 16km/10mi: Cruseilles (781 m/2,562ft), on the road from Annecy to Geneva (N 201); then north on this road over the little pass of Mont Sion (785 m/2,576ft) and through Le Châble and Saint-Julien to the Swiss frontier, 26km/16mi to Geneva.
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Monnetier
The road through the beautiful valley of the Viaison leads to 3km/2mi: Monnetier (696 m/2,284ft), a health resort on a cleft between the Petit and Grand Salève, from which it is a half-hour climb to the summit of the Petit-Salève (900 m/2,953ft: beautiful views).
4.5km/3mi above Monnetier, to the right, is the upper station of the cableway (1,143 m/3,750ft; restaurant), with a magnificent panorama of Geneva, the lake and the Jura.
4.5km/3mi above Monnetier, to the right, is the upper station of the cableway (1,143 m/3,750ft; restaurant), with a magnificent panorama of Geneva, the lake and the Jura.
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