In Burgundy, the better known the name on the sign, the more the aire costs. Beaune gives you 4 hours free, then charges 11.70 euros up to 20 hours and 21.40 euros for 48 hours (beaune-tourisme.fr, checked September 18, 2026). Marsannay-la-Côte, on the same wine slope about twenty kilometers north, is free (bourgogne-tourisme.com, checked September 18, 2026). Both put you in the vines. Only one takes your money.

The vineyards

The Beaune aire is on Avenue Charles de Gaulle and it has everything: drinking water, electricity, and disposal for both black and gray waste. All of it runs on 4.70 euro tokens, one token for 4 hours of power or 20 minutes of water and drainage, with the parking charged separately on the scale above.

Marsannay-la-Côte, 3 rue du Rocher, plays it the other way: free, 48 hours maximum, a borne with drinking water and waste disposal, recycling bins on site. No electricity listed. You are in an appellation village, a short drive from Dijon and a short walk into the vines.

In the Jura vineyards, Château-Chalon is the obvious stop. Jura Tourisme lists 6 spaces on the route de Champagnole and publishes no price at all (jura-tourism.com, checked September 18, 2026). Six spaces, in a listed hilltop village above the vin jaune slopes, will be full in August. Turn up with coins and a card, and read the sign at the entrance: that is what sets the price and the limit.

The canals

This is where the value is, because the communes plumbed their haltes nautiques, the canal-side moorings for boats, before motorhomes came into it, and the two share the same borne.

Génelard, place de la Résistance at Le Bassin on the Canal du Centre, is free: drinking water, an electric hook-up, disposal for waste water and toilets, and public toilets next to it. The aire is open all year, with one caveat the commune states outright, the water supply is cut off in winter. One more thing worth reading before you pull in: parking on the lawns along the canal is prohibited (creusotmontceautourisme.fr, checked September 18, 2026). Stay on the aire, not on the grass.

Chaumot, at the port of Chitry-Chaumot on the Canal du Nivernais, lists free water, electricity and waste disposal, parking capped at 48 hours, 2 km from the shops (lanievrenaturellement.com, checked September 18, 2026). Buy your bread before you arrive.

Semur-en-Auxois is the one to know inland. The commune lists about thirty free spaces on Avenue Pasteur, at the Charles Gally sports complex car park, a 15 minute walk from the medieval center. Water costs 2 euros for 6 minutes, electricity 3 euros for 6 hours, waste disposal is free, and payment is by bank card only (ville-semur-en-auxois.fr, checked September 18, 2026).

Climbing toward the Jura

Head east and two things change: the altitude, and how you pay.

At Les Fourgs, on the plateau above Pontarlier, parking is free on the parking de la Coupe. The electric bornes run on tokens sold at the bakery, Au P’tit Bourri, Chez JP, l’Hermitage or the mairie, and the water and the black and gray waste disposal are at the municipal yard (montagnes-du-jura.fr, checked September 18, 2026). The token circuit is the part to remember: arrive on a Sunday evening and there is nobody open to sell you one.

Orgelet, on the place de l’Ancien Champ de Foire in the Pays des Lacs at 400 to 800 meters, lists 10 spaces with waste disposal, public toilets and free services (jura-tourism.com, checked September 18, 2026). It is the sensible base for Lac de Vouglans.

What to bring

Most listings in this region publish no price. That is not a reason to wing it: travel with a bank card, a little change, and buy your tokens on a weekday while the shops are open. That one habit solves almost every borne problem in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Wherever you stop, the sign at the entrance and the mairie’s current word beat any listing, including ours.

Sources

  1. Aire de camping-cars de Beaune, Office de Tourisme Beaune et Pays Beaunois
  2. Aire pour camping-cars de Marsannay-la-Côte, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Tourisme
  3. Aire de camping-car, Ville de Semur-en-Auxois
  4. Aire de services pour camping-cars, Génelard, Office de Tourisme Creusot Montceau
  5. Aire de service pour camping-car de Chaumot, Nièvre Tourisme
  6. Aire d'accueil La Coupe, Les Fourgs, Montagnes du Jura
  7. Aire de service camping-car Orgelet, Jura Tourisme
  8. Aire de camping-car de Château-Chalon, Jura Tourisme

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