We've spent the last six weeks watching Fontainebleau from the outside — checking prefecture bulletins, rerouting trips, writing updates for you. Now that 80% of the massif is open again, we could just pick up where we left off in June. We're not going to. Here's why, and what we're actually changing. 1. The forest was already showing strain before a single spark hit it It's tempting to treat this as a fire story: something rare and destructive happened, and once it's cleaned up, things go...

Published July 28, 2026 - updated July 31, 2026 We've been tracking the Fontainebleau fire closures closely for you all month, and there's an update that changes the picture for one part of the massif in particular: Trois-Pignons. The short-term closure dates keep moving — the general order covering Fontainebleau and la Commanderie has now been extended twice, first from July 26 to July 31, and just this week again to August 7, 2026. It's also widened to include the forêt domaniale de...

Fontainebleau After the Fires: What Climbers Need to Know Before Fall Posted July 17, 2026 · Update August 21, 2026 BIG UPDATE — August 21, evening: the forest is reopening tomorrow. At a press conference this afternoon, the prefecture announced that 80% of the Fontainebleau massif — about 18,000 of its roughly 22,500 hectares — reopens to the public starting Saturday, August 22. This is the first real reopening since the closure began over a month ago. What stays closed: around 4,000...