The Explorers’ Path

The guided tour along the Explorers’ Path

Finding out more about this multi record-breaking viaduct is easy… Just follow the Eiffage guide - you’re in for a unique experience, getting right up beside the structure!

Seeing and finding out everything about the Millau Viaduct!

How was this giant erected? What is it made of? How deep are its foundations? How was the deck, «the road» in other words, moved across from pier to pier? All the answers to the questions you’ve been asking yourself!

Along this private path reserved for a limited number of visitors, live the experience with family, alone or with friends.

It is an opportunity to discover or rediscover this famous Millau Viaduct, thanks to the technical explanations of the guide, who will answer every question. Pedagogy and friendliness are on the menu of this visit for everyone, for young and old, as technicians or amateurs.

Highlight of the show : access to the private belvedere beneath the steel deck, offering a magnificient view of the structure… the opportunity to take a souvenir photo and immortalize this great moment !

Discover the guided tour in pictures!

Information & Bookings | Individual admission

Duration of the visit: 40 minutes

€6 | Adult
€4 | Child, student
€14 | Family

Tickets on sale at the Viaduct Exhibition area
Booking advised on: +33 565 61 61 54 or by mail

Free audioguides in 5 languages (English, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch). Our audioguides are disinfected before and after each use.
6-12 year-olds receive a free « Explorer’s Handbook » before setting off on the tour.

The highest pier visit | Exclusivity for the 2020 season

Have you always dreamed of walking into the highest pier in the world?

Until recently reserved for our technicians, access inside pier P2 is now opened to the general public…

Each of these special tours is reserved for a limited number of persons, ensuring your comfort and safety, while respecting appropriate sanitary measures.

The guide awaits you to open the structure gates and allow you to enter the base of this 245m high pier, which links the steel deck to the mainland.
How can we not feel so small when facing this giant of concrete ?

Information and reservation : 05 65 61 61 54

> €10 | Adult
> €8 | Child, student
> €30 | Family
Free for children under 6

“Around the Millau Viaduct” excursion – NEW - 2021

You would love to discover this famous structure, during a turnkey visit ? Then come aboard our bus, departing from the city of Millau... and let yourself be guided !
Incursion into the highest pier of the world, ride on the former construction tracks, breathtaking viewpoints on the viaduct and its environment, guided tour close to the structure...
And, last but not least, there’s nothing like a gourmet break on the Millau Viaduct area !

Every thursday, July and August, and on 26th of October, from 2PM to 5.30 PM
Book now at the Millau Grands Causses tourist office : +33 (0)5 65 60 02 42, or online

The nature getaway : “The viaduct, from top to bottom”

When nature and architecture are as one...
Building a structure fully integrated into its natural environment : that was one of the many goals of Norman Foster, architect and Michel Virlogeux, engineer. The bet was won !  
Built in a green setting, the Millau Viaduct can be admired from every angle now, thanks to this new “getaway” combining hiking, canoe trip down and incursion into P2, the highest pier of the world.

The occasion of a breath of fresh air, enjoying the explanations and experience of passionate guides.
Thanks to them, local fauna and flora will no longer hold any secret for you, and you will know everything about one of the most beautiful specimen of the region : the Millau Viaduct !

For further information, please contact CanoEscapade : +33 (0)6 72 26 09 65