You can follow the Loire châteaux from Sully-sur-Loire to Chinon sleeping on aires the whole way, but not in the château car parks. Chambord bans it outright, and its nearest overnight aires are 6 to 8 km out. Everywhere else on the corridor there is an aire inside 2 km of the gate.

The château car park is not an aire

Chambord is the one to know before you set off. The Domaine national de Chambord charges 15 euros per 24 hours in the P2 car park for motorhomes and vehicles over 2.10 m, and says plainly that the car park is not an accommodation area: no water, no electricity, no waste disposal (chambord.org, checked September 6, 2026). The Blois Chambord tourist office goes further, writing that staying overnight there is forbidden, that night parking is permitted but the car park cannot under any circumstances serve as a motorhome aire (bloischambord.com, checked September 6, 2026).

The two sources disagree on the price, the tourist office still listing 12 euros. Budget 15. The domaine sets its own tariff.

So visit Chambord from somewhere else. Montlivault and Saint-Claude-de-Diray are listed free, 6 and 8 km out as the crow flies, but they are village aires: Montlivault lists 3 bays and Saint-Claude-de-Diray lists no count at all (SIT Centre-Val de Loire via DATAtourisme, records dated January 2026). Arrive before five in July or line up the next one.

Château by château

  • Sully-sur-Loire. The best stopover on the corridor and it costs nothing: chemin de la Salle Verte, 600 m from the château, 35 pitches and up to 70 in summer, drinking water year round, black and grey waste disposal, open all year (tourismeloiret.com, checked September 6, 2026).
  • Blois. The Parc des Expositions aire, 20 pitches, 2 to 8 euros per pitch, water 2 euros, waste disposal, free wifi, no electric hook-up, card payment behind a gate with video monitoring and a 24 hour intercom, for stays of 2 hours to 24 hours or more (bloischambord.com, checked September 6, 2026).
  • Amboise. 423 quai des Violettes, 50 pitches, 5 euros per 24 hours (amboise-valdeloire.com, checked September 6, 2026). The lowest price on the corridor for a stopover this close to a headline château.
  • Chenonceau. The Chenonceaux aire takes up to 25 motorhomes 800 m from the château, with clean water, drainage, wifi, electricity and a bike shelter with charging sockets (tourainevaldeloire.com, checked September 6, 2026). It charges, and the tariff is not on the listing.
  • Villandry. 35 pitches a few meters from the château, water, 6A sockets, wifi, shops 400 m away (villandry.fr and tourainevaldeloire.com, checked September 6, 2026). Also paid, also no published price.
  • Azay-le-Rideau. The free one is at Cheillé, rue de Chinon: night parking capped at 24 hours, about 600 m from the château, bakery 600 m (tourainevaldeloire.com, checked September 6, 2026). In Azay itself, the rue du Stade aire has 48 pitches of 35 to 100 m² on the bank of the Indre with a payment terminal at the entrance.
  • Chinon. 2 route de Pontille, 49 vehicles, service point on site (azay-chinon-valdeloire.com, checked September 6, 2026).

Cheverny and Chaumont-sur-Loire both have a mapped aire within 3 km, neither with a published tariff, so turn up with coins either way.

Only Cheillé publishes a stay limit. That does not mean the others have none: it means the sign at the entrance is the one that counts, not this list.

The cycle route is why the aires exist

La Loire à Vélo runs 900 km from Cuffy, near Nevers, to Saint-Brevin-les-Pins on the Atlantic (loireavelo.fr, checked September 6, 2026). Communes on that corridor put in water, drainage and overnight parking for riders, and bolting a few motorhome bays onto that costs them almost nothing. It shows in the detail: a bike shelter with sockets at Chenonceaux, Villandry’s aire feeding the routes to Tours, Savonnières, Langeais and Azay-le-Rideau.

So you are parked among cyclists. Same etiquette as any aire: no awning, no chairs, no washing line.

Two things to bring

Coins and a card. Blois takes a card, and the village aires often run on a jeton, a token bought at the mairie or a local shop during business hours. Two euros is the going rate for a tank of water here, which is what Blois charges and what the communes on this corridor that publish a price tend to charge.

And water in advance if you come in winter. Communes drain the borne, the service pillar, before the frost: the parking stays open, the water does not. Sully-sur-Loire supplies water all year, which makes it the useful exception between November and March. The quieter aires in Sologne and the Cher valley are on the Centre-Val de Loire page and the France map. If you meant to skip the aires and park in a field instead, read what French law allows first.

Sources

  1. Horaires et tarifs, Domaine national de Chambord
  2. Aire de stationnement de Chambord, Office de Tourisme Blois Chambord
  3. Aire de stationnement Blois Parc des expositions, Office de Tourisme Blois Chambord
  4. Aire de services pour camping-cars, Sully-sur-Loire, Tourisme Loiret
  5. Parking camping-car Amboise, Office de Tourisme du Val d'Amboise
  6. Aire de stationnement camping-car, Cheillé, Touraine Val de Loire
  7. Aire de camping-cars d'Azay-le-Rideau, Touraine Val de Loire
  8. Aire de Chenonceaux, Touraine Val de Loire
  9. Aire de Villandry, Touraine Val de Loire
  10. Camping-cars, Commune de Villandry
  11. Aire de camping-car de Chinon, Office de Tourisme Azay Chinon Val de Loire
  12. La Loire à Vélo, official route site

When a source is not in English, follow the link for the official wording.