Circular walk through the Marchiennes State Forest

A circular route taking you around the Marchiennes State Forest.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 6.75 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 1h 55 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 3 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 3 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 21 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 18 m

Description of the walk

Note: This circular route passes by almost all the car parks in the forest. You can therefore start it from your own parking spot.
For this route, park at the junction of Rue du Bon Ballon and Rue des Fusillés.

(S/E) Head south along Chemin de l'Abbé. At the Laie de Poiteaux junction, join theGR®121marked in red and white. Continue straight ahead on thisGR®. Pass the Chemin de l'Oiseau junction, carry on and reach thesecond path junction.

(1) Leave theGR® here and take a straight path to the left. You will reach a car park at the side of a road.

(2) Cross the car park, taking care of the road. Take the path straight ahead. After the car park, you will soon reach a junction. Turn left and continue until you reach Laie des Queues de Tilloy. Turn left here and you will soon rejoin theGR®121. You will reach another car park.

(3) Leave theGR® here again and continue straight ahead into Laie des Rouges Prés. You’ll reach a right-angled junction with Laie de la Batellerie.

(4) Turn left here and continue along a new straight section to reach the junction with the road.

(5) Cross the road and walk to the junction with Rue des Fusillés.

(6) Here you have two options:
- either take the path on the left which, through the woods, joins the Chemin Vicinal du Bon Ballon; turn right onto this path to return to the starting car park (S/E),
- or turn left onto Rue des Fusillés to also return to the car park where you started (S/E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 21 m - Rue Bon Ballon-Fusillés junction
  2. 1 : km 1.28 - alt. 18 m - Path junction
  3. 2 : km 2.28 - alt. 18 m - Road junction
  4. 3 : km 3.81 - alt. 19 m - Laies crossroads
  5. 4 : km 4.54 - alt. 20 m - Laie de la Batellerie
  6. 5 : km 5.5 - alt. 21 m - Road junction
  7. 6 : km 6.33 - alt. 21 m - Rue des Fusillés
  8. S/E : km 6.75 - alt. 21 m - Rue Bon Ballon-Fusillés junction

Notes

This route presents no difficulty as it is flat and suitable for vehicles.

Always be cautious and plan ahead when you're outdoors. Visorando and the author of this route cannot be held responsible for any accidents occurring on this route.

The GR® and PR® markings are the intellectual property of the Fédération Française de Randonnée Pédestre.

Reviews and comments

3.9 / 5
Based on 8 reviews

Reliability of the description
3.8 / 5
Ease of following the route
3.9 / 5
Route interest
4.1 / 5
axitran
axitran
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Overall rating : 3.3 / 5

Date of your route : Aug 18, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

We recorded this route on a GPS device and followed it in guidance mode. There is no longer a path between points 1 and 2, as nature has reclaimed the land. We took the parallel path about 150 metres before point 1 and continued our hike from there.

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COUILLAUX Philippe
COUILLAUX Philippe

Overall rating : 3.3 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 19, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

It would be helpful if the map included the plot numbers of the forest along the route

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Veronique R2.
Veronique R2.

Overall rating : 3.3 / 5

Date of your route : Mar 13, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Some paths, which were probably laid out when the walk was first created to access a logging site, no longer exist. With the app, it’s easy to find another path, but this does mean the route is slightly altered. No problem for experienced walkers, though. A rather pleasant route nonetheless.

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Bogosse5952
Bogosse5952
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Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : Feb 10, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

At first glance, there appears to be an alternative route in the ‘traversée du bois de l’épinette’ section – two parallel forest tracks.
The second one appeared to be muddy, whilst the first (the one we took) was passable and the correct one according to the guidebook, but the (yellow) signposting indicated the first one.

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bvilette
bvilette

Overall rating : 5 / 5

Date of your route : Jan 16, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Highly recommended. Very enjoyable and fairly easy

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lucas0210
lucas0210

Overall rating : 4.3 / 5

Date of your route : Sep 28, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

A walk along wide, but quiet, paths

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maumau
maumau

Overall rating : 3.7 / 5

Date of your route : Feb 01, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

There is a serious lack of signposting on this woodland route.

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momo 59
momo 59

Overall rating : 4.7 / 5

Date of your route : Jan 31, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

We had a bit of trouble finding the small path marked 1. A lovely walk through a beautiful forest – one to do again in the spring.

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