A family story…
In 2025, I took over the campsite from my parents, Agnès and Frédéric, carrying on with the same philosophy and the same desire to welcome you to the Ardèche. Set in a natural woodland setting, you’ll enjoy a holiday with plenty of space between the spacious pitches, and peace and quiet broken only by the sound of birds and cicadas.
Every summer, some people of our area and further afield join the Briange family. They help us get the campsite ready for the season and worked in the bar, at reception and on maintenance duties during the busy months.
We invite you to visit our family-friendly campsite and enjoy some quality time with us and our team.
To celebrate our 25th anniversary here (in 2022), we’re sharing this lovely feature. It tells the story of our time in Briange through our own account, testimonials and photos from the season. You’ll get a real sense of the unique atmosphere here.
… since 1997 !
The campsite was established in 1980 by the Dumas family from Saint-Remèze and we bought it from them in 1997.
We are both originally from Ardèche but left the region to complete our studies in Lyon and stayed on in the city to pursue our careers. Fifteen years – and 3 children – later, we realised that we no longer wanted the city life. We felt a need to live and work closer to nature, developing a shared project for the future.
After a couple of years, our search brought us to Saint Remèze and the Domaine de Briange. It was love at first sight! A beautiful site with so much potential, we knew instantly this was the place that would be our family campsite, change our lives, where we could enjoy quality time with our children in winter, live in the open air, welcome people to a little paradise and introduce them to Ardèche, the land of our forefathers…
But of course, it didn’t turn out like that!
The nights are too short in the high season but we expected that. What we hadn’t anticipated was that the winters would also prove too short to get everything ready for the next season. And we always have lots of modernisation and improvement projects on the go! We often find ourselves overwhelmed by the demands of management, marketing, regulations, training and building works… in short, we have full-time jobs!
And yet so much more than just a job – for us it is an exciting vocation that we wouldn’t change for anything in the world, not even after 20 years.