Ouvrage La Moutière, Military fortification at Col de la Moutière, French Alps, France.

Ouvrage La Moutière is a military fortification located at Col de la Moutière in the French Alps. The site consists of multiple armed blocks and an emergency exit block linked by underground tunnels at approximately 2440 meters elevation.

This fortification was built between 1931 and 1935 as part of the Alpine extension of France's Maginot defensive line. It was designed to protect the border in this strategically important mountain region.

The name comes from the Col de la Moutière, the pass on the D 63 between Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage and Bayasse. The garrison was housed in a semi-buried abri at a lower altitude, and around the blocks remain dry-stone firing positions pierced with embrasures. The ouvrage saw no action in 1940 or 1944, though an FFI unit was posted at the pass in 1944.

The ouvrage sits at 2,440 m on the D 63 between Saint-Dalmas-le-Selvage and Bayasse, about one kilometre south of the Cime de la Bonette. A 3.5 km track links it to the Col de Restefond. The access road is a mountain route; snow covers the pass and the entrance block for much of the year.

The entrance block's door is topped by a metal snow-exit housing that is still in place, with metal rungs set into the concrete wall so men could climb up to open its two flaps. The chimney block's metal stack now lies on the ground, but its rungs show it also served as an emergency exit when snow blocked the ditch.