Circular walk from Boussières to the Chouzelot monument via the Bois de la Taille

Park in the car park at the Salle des Fêtes.

(S/E) Walk down Rue des Richets to join the D104. Turn right onto it.

(1) A little further on, take Rue de l’Eglise on your left. Continue through the housing estate until you reach the edge of the woods.

(2) Then leave the road and turn onto a lovely gravel path. You are now on the fitness trail, which you follow along the edge of the woodland. Follow it all the way, including the uphill section after the left-hand bend. When you reach the top, you’ll come across a line.

(3) Leave the gravel path and turn right onto a short but clearly marked downhill section. Follow this track, which curves to the right as it climbs, until you reach the D104.

(4) Carefully cross the departmental road at the edge of the property, then head up to the right, taking the path running perpendicular to it.

(5) As soon as you enter the woodland, you’ll find a wide dirt track on your left. Take this track, go round a small meadow and continue uphill, ignoring the various crossroads and keeping a general southerly direction. Further up, the path runs alongside and merges with a well-marked track that marks the boundary between the municipalities. Take either one and carry on until you emerge into the pastures, passing the highest point of the woodland at an altitude of 457m.

Walk alongside the bushes or take the stony path to reach the Roman road. About 150 metres to your left is the Vorges monument, dedicated to the soldiers who fell in battle during the 1870 conflict (a return trip is possible). Turn right and walk for about fifty metres.

(6) Turn right into the pasture and enjoy the panoramic view over Boussières and the western part of the Doubs department. Retrace your steps, turn right and follow this track straight on until you reach a junction with a path coming in from the right, where you’ll come to the Chouzelot or Montgardot monument, erected for the same purpose as the one at Vorges.

(7) Take the recently laid track on the right, facing the monument. Head up into the forest. Cross the ridge and head back down, but without leaving the woods.

(8) Take the well-marked path on the right, halfway up the slope. Walk the full length of this beautiful high-forest. Further on, you’ll wind your way through magnificent holly bushes with their串串 of red berries, and reach a fairly wide path at the edge of the meadows. Take it to the right, walk past the ruins of an old farmhouse on your left and enter the undergrowth.

(9) At the Fork in the road, follow the path leading down to the left, which is marked shortly afterwards in red and white. You are now following a branch of^{the GR®59}. Continue down the slope, passing vineyards and orchards, until you reach the plain. At the junction, carry on straight ahead, passing the factory and the craft workshops. Ignore the Chemin du Vigney on the left (the second branch of^{the GR®59}) and, further on, follow Rue des Résistants on your left.

(10) At the junction with the Route de Quingey (D105), turn right and head back up through the village. Walk past the bakery and, before the bar-grocery shop, turn left onto Rue des Richets. Walk up the street, passing by some of the village’s oldest houses, until you reach the car park (S/E).

There is a bakery in the village at the junction with the road to Vorges.
Local grocery shop and adjoining bar serving light snacks.
A restaurant next to the bar, open every weekday lunchtime.
Accommodation available at the Lodges de l'Orée du Bois (see website for bookings).

In the centre of the village, Saint Pierre Church and its porch are listed as historic monuments.