Sainte-Croix-Vallée-Française is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

The town is part of the heart zone of the Cévennes National Park. This national park, created in 1967, is a mid-mountain territory made up of five geographical entities: the Aigoual massif, the Causse Méjean with the Tarn and Jonte gorges, Mont Lozère, the Cévennes valleys and the Cévennes piedmont.

The Cévennes are also a territory recognized as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1985 for the mosaic of natural environments that make it up and which are home to exceptional biodiversity, with 2,400 animal species, 2,300 species of flowering plants and ferns, to which there are also countless mosses, lichens and fungi.