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The trail starts at the waterfall car park.
Just a quick tip: enjoy the upper and lower viewpoints at the start of your walk. The 200 steps down and back up will be more daunting on the way back.
(S/E) Leave the car park by turning left. Go downhill and pass the lower viewpoint. Continue along this pleasant path through the woods.
(1) As soon as you reach the Route des Cascades, turn right and carefully descend this road (279). Continue, cross the bridge at the confluence of the Lemme and Saine rivers and you will reach a large crossroads.
(2) Leave the direction of Syam and turn right.
(3) At the next crossroads, turn right again. (You will return via the road on your left.)
The track passes between wood stores sprayed with water. Try to avoid getting wet! Further on, the path narrows and climbs more steeply. Stay on this path, continue your "ascent" and you will reach a white path.
(4) Turn left and walk along the Plan d'Eau des Pêchettes lake and its picnic tables. Immediately afterwards, turn right at the sign for the Sapin Président. Walk past it and continue to the next intersection.
(5) Turn left onto theGR® trail towards the Grande Cheminée. Descend carefully to avoid any falls, which could be serious given the layout of the area.
(6) Approach the passage and use the cable to carefully descend into this chimney. At the end of the passage, turn right onto the small path at the foot of the rocks. Continue until you reach a tarmac road.
(7) Then turn left and walk a few metres to enjoy the view at the Belvédère des Prés Grillet viewpoint.
Turn back and take the Cornu Forest Road uphill.
Continue along this route, ignoring the various paths leading off to the right or left. Pass the hunting lodge and you will come to an intersection with a path on your right.
(8) Make a round trip to the drystone shelter at the Ours. At the first crossroads, go straight ahead. You will find "Ours" markings on some trees. Locate the entrance to the cave. You can climb a few dozen metres to enjoy a view through the vegetation of Champagnole and its surroundings.
Go back down to the forest road.
(8) Turn right. About a kilometre further down, you will see a junction with theGR®.
(9) Turn left onto theGR® Tour de la Vallée de la Saine and continue until it branches off at a right angle to the left.
(10) Leave theGR® and turn right onto a descending path, which has been widened by forestry work. At the edge of the pasture, turn left and, after a right-hand bend, turn left again. You will then find yourself on the Cornu Forest Road.
(11) Take this road, turning right. At the next junction, turn left and continue until you reach a sharp right-hand bend.
(12) Turn left for a round trip to the Belvédère viewpoint in Taiclet. Follow the signs.
(12) Back on the forest road, turn left and continue to the end of the track.
(13) Take the small path on the left that descends towards the river.
(14) When you reach the tarmac road, turn left. Continue until you reach a large square and a crossroads that you passed on the way there.
(3) This is the end of the circular route, and you will find yourself back on your original route. Return to the car park by following the same route you took on the way there: continue straight ahead.
(2) Follow the road, cross the river and climb up to the side of the road.
(1) Enter the undergrowth, reach the lower viewpoint and continue on to the upper viewpoint and your car park (S/E).
Visorando Member
Moderate 
Association / Club / Walk leader
Easy 
