Is currently (August 2020) shut and will be for some time.
More accurately, the road across the summit is closed, so you cannot go ‘up, over and down’.
For example, there are signs as you approach on the D164 / D974 (the approach with Tom Simpson’s memorial) from Sault / Bédoin telling you that there is no access to the top and to halt at the large car park area at the cafe, Chalet Reynard. This is not quite true as you can (at least when I was there) ride on up and find somewhere to stop about 100 yards or so from the top itself. Bicycles can, at least at the moment, carry on up and over.
The works are all to do with improving the somewhat chaotic parking arrangements at the top by the TV mast block and are scheduled to be going on for some time to come, until October 2021.
More accurately, the road across the summit is closed, so you cannot go ‘up, over and down’.
For example, there are signs as you approach on the D164 / D974 (the approach with Tom Simpson’s memorial) from Sault / Bédoin telling you that there is no access to the top and to halt at the large car park area at the cafe, Chalet Reynard. This is not quite true as you can (at least when I was there) ride on up and find somewhere to stop about 100 yards or so from the top itself. Bicycles can, at least at the moment, carry on up and over.
The works are all to do with improving the somewhat chaotic parking arrangements at the top by the TV mast block and are scheduled to be going on for some time to come, until October 2021.