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Hiking in the Cevennes national park         

Hiking is the best way to discover the  multiple charms and surprises of this remarkable region.       Cevennes,  Gorges du Tarn, Causses,  Gorges de la Jonte, Mont Aigoual  and Mont Lozere. Hiking is fun   mountainbiking cycling

Grande Randonnee hiking tracks Petite  Randonnee "little" walks Hiking X days Maps Guides Discovery-paths of the ECO-museum of the PNC Hikingholiday Cevennes FIRA : Hikers Festival 1-3 nov. Cevennes Evasion, hiking accompanied or solo (lugage-transport) La Garde Guerin (Fr.) Le chemin Stevenson La Flandonenque Sentier des rocs de Galta (Fr.) Les bondons, circuit des menhirs (Fr.) Le chemin Stevenson (Fr.) Le chemin de Grisou (Fr.) 5 circuits near le Bleymard (Fr.) Sentier La Capelle Causse de Sauveterre (Fr.) randonnees autour de Florac randos massif central randos region aigoual le Mont Lozere et le pic du finiels Hikes Cevennes, Causses, Haut-Languedoc Hikingcircuits Vallée Borgne Mountainbike circuits Cyclotourisme Grands Causses Cycling training camp in the Cevennes

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Grandes Randonnées                  

• The G.R. 4 Ocean-Mediterranean by the axis north-west - south-east

• The GR 43 from GR 7 at "la Can de l'Hospitalet" to "la Margeride" (North Lozère)
  Can de l'Hospitalet, Florac, Mont Lozère

• GR 44 From Villefort  to la Canourgue, 61 km; leaving the GR 72 at Villefort, le chemin des Crêtes, col de la Loubière, from there he joins the GR 43 till la Fage, col de Montmirat, Causse de Sauveterre and rejoins the  GR 60 at Champerboux and the GR 6 at la Canourgue.

• The G.R. 6 Ocean -Alps, according to the approximate direction  West-East
  from St. Jean du Gard, by the "massif de Liron", to the Mont Aigoual, Causse Méjean, Gorges du Tarn, l'Aubrac
  with several variations :
  GR 61 Anduze, le musée du Désert, Mialet, Saint Jean du Gard
  6a, 6b , 60, 62,

• GR 66, le Tour de l'Aigoual, 79 km

• GR 67, le Tour des Cévennes, 130 km
  St Germain de Calberte :Bed and breakfast -evening meals or own cuisine :Malafosse : Site

• GR 68 Tour du Mont Lozère and Causse Méjean
  Mont Lozère, Florac, Bougés, Croix de Berthel, Mont Lozère
  topo-guide de la FFRP n° 631 (link to  bed and breakfast Florac)

• A regional path : "Tour du Méjean" Sentier de pays

• le Sentier de Pays Tra Lou Serre :  Col de Banette - crête du Ventalon - temple de Lézignier - le Lauzas - route des Crêtes

• G.R.7 Pyrenees-Vosges, orientation South-West -   North-East
  Vigan- valley, Mont Aigoual, la Can de l'hospitalet, Barre des Cévennes, St. Germain de Calberte, Mont Mars, Bougès, Col de Jalcreste, Mont Lozére

• GR 71 variation of the GR 7 which he quits at  l'Esperou at the mount Aigoual, traversing la montagne du Lingas, leaving the Parc close to Alzon, going up to the Causse du Larzac.

• GR 72; topo-guide n° 704, another variation of the GR 7 with Cévennes-journey
  Varies in between Barre des Cévennes and la Bastide,  72 km length.
  He traverses the Bougès massif at col de la Planète, then goes down to Villefort, following the ancient "Régordane"-road till la Bastide passing by the medieval village la Garde Guérin.

• GR Stevenson passing by the Mont Lozère and the Cévennes, GR 70 -topo-guide n° 700:
  From Monastier sur Gazeilles (Tourist Office , tel 00 33 (0)4 71 08 37 76)(Haute-Loire),
  via Cayres (O.T. tel 00 33 (0)4 71 57 34 46),
  Pradelles(O.T. tel 00 33 (0)4 71 00 82 65),
  Langogne (O.T. 00 33 (0)4 66 69 01 38),
  St Etienne de Lugdarès (O.T. 00 33 (0)4 66 46 65 36),
  le Pont de Montvert, Florac, Cassagnas, Plan de Fontmort, St. Germain de Calberte and St. Etienne de Vallée Française ending in St. Jean du Gard : (Tourist Offices (OTSI'S) MENTIONED UNDER  "PETITE   RANDONNEE")
  Chambres d'hotes à St Jean de Bleymard

• Européen path n° 4 Austria - Spain

Topo-guides of the Grande Randonnée-paths are for sale in bookshops, at the Parc National des Cévennes-counter and at Chaminas.

           

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Link  to :  the museums of the écomusée

                                                                                                                                        
                                
Not everybody is in olympic form, which doesn't implicate to miss the jewels of the Cévenols patrimony.

Besides the classical museum-musea, certain elements of the écomuseum are spread out in the landscape.
The national parc of the Cevennes decided for the slatestone valleys to give value to some patrimonical interesting places at the spot, there were they are created and did functionate - in their historical surrounding.

On these discovery walks you'll be guided by the PNC by a brochure available at the start.
In summer, July and August the Parc also proposes guided visits.
PNC BP 15, 48400 Florac, tél 00 33 (0)4 66 49 53 00    


Discovery-paths of the ECO-museum of the schist Cevennes :                 

Landscape-path of Barre des Cévennes 3 km: discovery of the village (history, evolution, architecture, geology, religion) and the surrounding landscapes
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Under the shelter of the "Castelas" - a so-called rockformation, Barre des Cévennes with it's  lined up facades in an old urban model makes remind its rich and very animated history.
The map realised  after the land registry of 1826 will historically mark your visit in these cute narrow streets.
The path will lead you from the fountains to the kitchen-gardens, from the temple to the church, by the former famous  market- and fairs- squares to surprise you at the end with beatiful points of  views to the Can noire and the Malzac-valley.

Footpath la Roquette ( 2,5 km) at Molezon to discover a quarter of the high-Cevennes : architecture, organisation of a hamlet,  the terraces-system, the sweet chestnut orchard, the apiaries and the history of Protestantism.
From the D 983, Sainte Croix Vallée Française to Barre des Cévennes take the little road at your right at the exit of Pont-Ravagers. Go on about  5 km to park your car at the right side. Departure close to the mill in between Ste Croix Vallée Française and Trabassac, take a guiding-brochure which is available at the start.

The Trabassac-brook valley
To discover the different aspects of this "mas cévenol" (farm consisting out of a real hamlet) and its environment, you have to walk around to feel the atmosphere.

The path gows up in between rocks and chestnut-trees and then crosses the brook. Like in the most cevenols hamlet you can admire the old apiary with beehives out of a hollow chestnut-trunk with a big slatestone and the bread-oven.

Then you'll climb up the terraces and the little footpath arrives in between two walls under oaktrees. Finally you'll arrive at the slatestone buildings with behind the modest cimetary with sepulchres only marked by two stones and a cipres symbolising the flame of eternity.

Also at Molezon : la Magnanerie de la Roque: " le fil de la mémoire" (the memory-thread) building constructed for silkworm (magnans) keeping  click-here for it's description(French)

Footpath of the Canourgue tower: Vestige of a XII^th century defence system, which  fonctionated till the XV^th century.
It was a signal-tower network connecting Anduze to Florac. The traject of  3 km (to and fro, 1hour) passing by a abandone hamlet approaching differents themes. You can park your car at the parking on the departemental road from Ste Croix Vallée Française to Barre des Cévennes, close to "château du Mazel". The guiding-brochure is available at the parking.

The path- in the shelter of mediterranean oaks, traverses the ruins of a hamlet and goes up to the Canourgue fortress from end XII^th and begin XIII^th century, its defence ditch and disappeared buildings...

In the restaured donjon you can enjoy a nice view and reconstituted maps  and scenes of  medieval life. Presumable the "castrum" also had a prestigeous function, but it's not really sure. Guiding-brochure is available at the start.

Path of Pont de Rastel permits to discover the "rebels-region" : the Clerguemort out of the book "les rebelles" from Jean-Pierre Chabrol, a famous cevenol writer.

Discovery paths of the ECO-museum mont Lozère of the Parc National des Cevennes
Chambres d'hotes Mont Lozère

• Foothpath Mas Camargues
  Educative path telling about the relationship in between men and mountain.
  Free visit every day. Guiding-brochure is available at the start, or in the Museum Mont-Lozère in Pont de Montvert this also is an inquirie counter off the écomusée and organising   guided-visits. (See : écomusée)

• Foothpath Mas de la Barque above Villefort and Génolhac, you will discover the open  pastures and beech- and pinewoods of the mont Lozère.
  Free visit every day. Guiding-brochure is available at the start, or in the Museum Mont-Lozère in Pont de Montvert.
  Guided visits in July and August, Wednesday at 3 a.m., and Friday at 9.30 p.m., duration 2 hours.

• The menhirs path   At the limestone spurs at the extreme West off the mont-Lozère,150 menhirs are erected about 5000 years ago. The path offers you a journey in time.
  Free visit every day. Guiding-brochure at demand in the Museum Mont-Lozère in Pont de Montvert.

• Foothpath Montcuq This path at the theme the forest has it's departure at the  picknick place near "col de la Croix de Berthel"..
  Free visit every day. Guiding-brochures for adults or children are available at the start,

• Foothpath l'Hermet Beginning at Pont de Montvert, is this a discovery-traject with panoramic views over landscapes telling about the relationship between man and nature. Free visit every day. Guiding-brochure is available in the Museum Mont-Lozère of Pont de Montvert

• Foothpath of the channel of la Viale  this path is following the traject of an irrigation channel called a béal. This very amazingly dared traject is a nice example of human adaptation to his environment
                     
  Cartes,

                                                             Guides

Carte IGN Parc national des Cévennes
1/100 000
or
Roadmap Michelin n° 80

More detailed map, suitable for hiking, showing well the rural paths:
IGN  top 25 :   1/ 25000

Massif du Mont Lozère, Mende 2638 EST (East)
Le Bleymard 2738 EST et OUEST (West)
Florac 2639 EST
Le Pont de Montvert 2739 OUEST
Génolhac, Vialas 2739  EST 

Meyrueis ( Mont Aigoual, Vébron) 2640 EST
Causse Noir, Lanuejols (Gorges de la Jonte) 2640 OUEST
Meyrueis 1:50 000 Ouest et Est

Saint André de Valborgne, (Barre des Cévennes) 2740  OUEST

St Jean du Gard, (St. Germain de Calbert) 2740 EST
or the local  touristic map:
CORNICHE DES CEVENNES (2740 EST )
which covers 2740 West and 2740 East

Nant , Dourbie 2641 Et et OUEST
Le Vigan, (Valleraugue) 2741 OUEST
St. Hippolyte du Fort 2741 EST
Anduze, Lédignan 2841 OUEST
Alés, la Grand Combe 2840 OUEST
Chamborigaud 2839 OUEST

Guides:         

Also have a look at the page "litterature"

The Topo-guides gives as well the maps as well as the details off the itinerary.
Practical information and points of interest.
For sale in libraries and at CNSGR in Paris

Guide des Randonnées dans le Parc National des Cévennes (hikers-guide)
21 sentiers; édition Glénat (21 paths)

Sentiers d'interpretation du PNC
Pochette "regarder en marchant"
13 sentiers, 25 F

parc national des Cévennes                   English version:  parc national des Cévennes
guide touristique                                                                Touristic guide book
guide des hautes terres du PnC                                           guide to the highlands in the PNC
1987                                                                                    1987

Lozère, 70 petites randonnées   , boucles de 1 à 6h de marche;
Edition CHAMINA
BP 436 ;  5 rue Pierre le Vénérable; 63057 Clermont Ferrand Cedex 1
tél. 04 73 92 81 44          fax. 04 73 91 62 24
info@chamina.com
www.chamina.com 

LA LOZERE
Un environnement grandiose où la diversité n’est qu’une affaire de quelques kilomètres : crêtes de Margeride, plateau herbager de l’Aubrac, Causses entaillés par les gorges du Tarn et de la Jonte, vallées cévenoles, … créant une mosaïque de paysages et de villages.200p, 70 balades en boucles à pied et à VTTPrix de vente : 14,94 euro TTC soit 98 F
info@chamina.com
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GUIDE FRANCK : 45 tours with map IGN  2 to 6 1/2 hour walks
by Nicolas Dessaux
Edition Franck Mercier, 1 bis rue du Forum, 74000 Annecy

Guide IGN (n°7)
CEVENNES
Gorges du Tarn - Mont Aigoual -  Mont Lozère
Excellent guide for hiking and other outdoor activities (walks with a donkey, (mountain)biking, horseriding, canoeing, climbing, speleology, canyoning, hanggliding, deltaplane, skiing) classified by region and level.
Of each region (Mt. Lozére, Cévennes, Causses & rivers, Causse de Larzac,massif de l'Aigoual, les garrigues)
all kind of usefull adresses.
le guide des loisirs IGN de pleine nature. 1996
3615 IGN/Espace IGN, 107 rue de la Boétie, 75008 Paris

Guide bleu
Cévennes- Languedoc

Guide vert:
Gorges du Tarn Cévennes - Bas Languedoc

GUIDES RANDONNEUR SOLAR   (n°4)
Promenades et randonnées
dans Les Cévennes
1992, Didier Corneille

The Robert Louis Stevenson Trail
A walking tour in the Velay and Cévennes, Southern France
by Alan Castle, 1992
A CICERONE GUIDE
Cicerone Pres; Milnthorpe, Cumbria

Off The Beaten Track
SOUTHERN FRANCE
UK: Moorland Publishing Co Ltd.
USA: The Globe Pequot Press

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